Justice and Gender : Sex Discrimination and the Law
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Sarah M. Evans, University of Minnesota : Justice and Gender breaks the impasse created by legal and theoretical debates over 'sameness' and 'difference.' Deborah Rhode's brilliant analysis of gender and the law in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present argues persuasively for theories rooted in careful contextual analysis and for a legal emphasis on gender disadvantage rather than gender difference. This book offers a new vantage point from which to think about the role of law in building a just society.
Book Description
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interaction implies about the possibility-or impossibility-of using law as a tool of social change.
Justice and Gender : Sex Discrimination and the Law
Justice and Gender : Sex Discrimination and the Law,Deborah L. Rhode,Harvard University Press,0674491017,Civil Procedure,Gender Studies,General,History,History - General History,Law and legislation,Sex discrimination against women,Social Science,Sociology,United States,Law / General
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