Rethinking Equality Projects in Law - Feminist Challenges

The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for women, feminists have come to challenge the usefulness of equality as a concept, a particular definition, or a basis for strategising. The papers in this collection reflect these concerns, primarily in the context of English-speaking, common law cultures. Collectively, the papers analyse a range of equality projects across a number of areas of public and private law, considering both competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it. In taking stock across a century and a half and around the globe, the book illustrates the range of ways in which equality projects in law have been challenged by, and remain a challenge for, feminism.>

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• Authors: Rosemary Hunter, Rosemary C. Hunter
• Assisted by: Professor Rosemary Hunter (Editor), Professor Rosemary (Loughborough University Hunter (Editor), Rosemary Hunter (Editor), Rosemary C. Hunter (Editor), David Nelken (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2008
• EAN: 9781841138398
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-839-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society; Onati International Series in Law and Society; Onati International Series in; Oñati International Series in Law and Society; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law