Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations, Volumen1

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D. Kelly Weisberg
Temple University Press, 1993 - 620 páginas

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Martha Minow
301
Introduction
335
Angela P Harris
348
Patricia A Cain
359
Marlee Kline
371
Introduction
399
Diane Polan
419
Mari J Matsuda
476

EQUAL TREATMENT VERSUS
119
Wendy W Williams
128
Linda J Krieger and Patricia N Cooney
156
Herma Hill
180
Finley
190
Introduction
211
Mary E Becker
221
Patricia A Cain
237
Christine A Littleton
248
Diana Majury
264
Catharine A MacKinnon
276
Ruth Colker
288
Frances Olsen
485
Patricia J Williams
496
Schneider
507
Introduction
529
Katharine T Bartlett
550
Finley
571
Marie Ashe
582
Patricia J Williams
594
Table of Cases
603
Contributors
619
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Página 21 - There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of 'romantic paternalism' which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Página 283 - ... their military service defines citizenship, their presence defines family, their inability to get along with each other — their wars and rulerships — defines history, their image defines god, and their genitals define sex.
Página 19 - The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.
Página 278 - Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
Página 417 - ... her physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions — having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race — justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.
Página 19 - Man is, or should be woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood. The harmony, not to say identity, of interests and views which belong or should belong...
Página 86 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

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