Feminist Legal Studies information

Feminist Legal Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed legal journal with an international perspective that focuses on feminist work in all areas of law,...

Feminist legal theory, also known as feminist jurisprudence, is based on the belief that the law has been fundamental in women's historical subordination...

Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s. CLS adherents claim that laws are devised...

is a Canadian feminist legal scholar, the inaugural Chair in Feminist Legal Studies, and founder of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, and Professor...

University of the West of England, where she was Professor of Feminist Legal Studies. Jackie has lived in Cardiff and Pembrokeshire since 1985. Jones...

interests, chores, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, communication, media studies, psychoanalysis, political...

including critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, sociology of law, and law and economics. Critical legal studies are a new theory...

where each movement originates. General topics of feminist coalition politics include lack of legal rights, poverty, medical vulnerability, and labor...

The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project brought together legal academics, practising lawyers and judges to imagine how 16 important legal judgments from...

(August 1995). "Should female circumcision continue to be banned?". Feminist Legal Studies. 3 (2): 229. doi:10.1007/BF01104114. S2CID 144198914; Access provided...

fertilisation and embryology act 2008: tinkering at the margins". Feminist Legal Studies. 17 (3): 333–344. doi:10.1007/s10691-009-9129-2. S2CID 143607194...

and considers the denial of equal legal and political rights as the main obstacle to equality. As such liberal feminists have worked to bring women into...

rights within marriage, and maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to ensure access to contraception, legal abortions, and social integration; and to...

essential work. Radical feminists locate the root cause of women's oppression in patriarchal gender relations, as opposed to legal systems (as in liberal...

ideology that aims for full civil and legal equality. She argues that while the feminists she designates as gender feminists advocate preferential treatment...

against transphobia is a feminist issue, with NOW affirming that "trans women are women, trans girls are girls." Several studies have found that people...

field of Women's Studies, noted another difference between French and American feminists. French feminists, specifically radical feminists, criticized and...

(November 2016). "Transsexuality in Contemporary Iran: Legal and Social Misrecognition". Feminist Legal Studies. 24 (3): 252. doi:10.1007/s10691-016-9332-x. Najmabadi...

Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment...

September 5, 2014. Lim, Hilary (May 1999). "Caesareans and cyborgs". Feminist Legal Studies. 7 (2): 133–173. doi:10.1023/A:1009272228097. S2CID 146317834. Hanania...