1st Edition

Postmodern Legal Feminism

By Mary Joe Frug Copyright 1993

    Mary Joe Frug charts a course for future feminist thinking about law. She identifies the political and theoretical limitations of earlier strands of legal feminism and demonstrates why postmodernism offers more hope for women in law.

    Part 1 Feminist Doctrine; Chapter 1 Sexual Equality and Sexual Difference in American Law; Chapter 2 Feminist Doctrine; Chapter 3 Progressive Feminist Legal Scholarship: Can We Claim “A Different Voice”?; Part 2 Re-reading Contracts: A Feminist Analysis of a Contracts Casebook; Chapter 4 A Feminist Analysis of a Casebook? An Introductory Explanation; Chapter 5 An Overview of the Contracts Casebook: Dis-covering the Gender of Contract Culture; Chapter 6 Re-reading Cases: Challenging the Gender of Two Contract Decisions; Part 3 A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto; Chapter 7 Rescuing Impossibility Doctrine: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Contract Law; Chapter 8 A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto;

    Biography

    Mary Joe Frug

    "Thecollection of essays makes a refreshingly open and valuable contribution to the feminist legal theory literature. . ." -- Women and Politics,Winter '96 The collection of essays...makes a refreshingly open and valuable contribution to the feminist legal theory literature...the politics of her work offer a challenge to traditional legal scholarship reminiscent of the Critical Legal Studies movement.