TY - BOOK ID - 6647450 TI - Unspeakable subjects : feminist essays in legal and social theory PY - 1998 SN - 1901362345 1472561910 1281042242 9786611042240 1847311474 9781901362343 PB - Oxford: Hart, DB - UniCat KW - Feminist jurisprudence KW - Women KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Social conditions KW - Feminist jurisprudence. KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Social conditions. KW - Law KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Sexology KW - Politics KW - Public administration KW - Human rights KW - Criminal law. Criminal procedure KW - Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law KW - Great Britain KW - Feminism KW - Feminism, Legal KW - Legal feminism KW - Feminist theory KW - Jurisprudence KW - Sex and law. KW - Sex crimes. KW - Abuse, Sexual KW - Sex offenses KW - Sexual abuse KW - Sexual crimes KW - Sexual delinquency KW - Sexual offenses KW - Sexual violence KW - Crime KW - Prostitution KW - Law and sex KW - Sex KW - Sex crimes KW - Law and legislation KW - Women Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Women - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Women - Social conditions KW - Feminist criticism KW - Anti-discrimination laws KW - Political sciences KW - Pornography KW - Private sphere KW - Legal theory KW - Sexuality KW - Criminal law KW - Legislation KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6647450 AB - "Nicola Lacey's book presents a feminist critique of law based on an analysis of the ways in which the very structure or method of modern law is gendered. All of the essays in the book therefore engage at some level with the question of whether there are things of a general nature to be said about what might be called the sex or gender of law. Ranging across fields including criminal law,public law and anti-discrimination law, the essays examine the conceptual framework of modern legal practices: the legal conception of the subject as an individual; the concepts of equality, freedom, justice and rights; and the legal construction of public and private realms and of the relations between individual, state and community. They also reflect upon the deployment of law as a means of furthering feminist ethical and political values. At a more general level, the essays contemplate the relationship between feminist and other critical approaches to legal theory; the relationship between the ideas underlying feminist legal theory and those informing contemporary developments in social and political theory; and the nature of the relationship between feminist legal theories and feminist legal politics. The essays in this book tell the story of an intellectual journey which has led the author to question some of the central assumptions of traditional legal education and scholarship. They also set out a distinctive vision of jurisprudence as a form of critical social theory."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -