Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law

Zusatztext "Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law provides an excellent contribution to contract law and to the Feminist Perspectives series... a book well worth reading." - Janice Richardson in Feminist Legal Studies! Issue 14 (2006)"This book offers fascinating insights...[and] makes an important contribution to contract scholarship." - International Journal of Law in Context! vol. 2.4 (2007)"Each chapter in Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law illuminates the less visible malecentric aspects of contract law! renewing and introducing feminist approaches that enrich historical! jurisprudential and theoretical understandings that have relevance for broader aspects of law." - Dermot Feenan! Social & Legal Studies! 17 (2)! 2008 Informationen zum Autor Linda Mulcahy, Sally Wheeler Klappentext This edited collection questions the assumptions about feminist perspectives on contract law made in mainstream textbooks and the ideologies that underpin them, drawing attention to the ways in which the law of contract has facilitated the virtual exclusion of women, the feminine and the private sphere from legal discourse. Zusammenfassung This edited collection questions the assumptions about feminist perspectives on contract law made in mainstream textbooks and the ideologies that underpin them, drawing attention to the ways in which the law of contract has facilitated the virtual exclusion of women, the feminine and the private sphere from legal discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Feminist Perspectives on Restitution; Intention to Create Legal Relations; Feminist Perspectives on Contracts in Cyberspace; A Feminist Perspective on Paternalism in Contract.

Product details

• Authors: Linda (Birkbeck Mulcahy, Linda Wheeler Mulcahy
• Assisted by: Linda Mulcahy (Editor), Mulcahy Linda (Editor), Sally Wheeler (Editor), Wheeler Sally (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2017
• EAN: 9781138163058
• ISBN: 978-1-138-16305-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Feminist Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LAW / Legal Profession, LAW / Contracts, LAW / Gender & the Law, contract law, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender & the law, Feminism and feminist theory, Legal profession: general, Law and society, gender issues, Legal profession / practice of law: general