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Caring for Justice

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Description for Caring for Justice Paperback. Providing a feminist perspective on traditional jurisprudence, this text examines issues such as the nature of justice, the concept of harm, economic theories of value, and the utility of constitutional discourse. Num Pages: 366 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; LAB; LAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.

Over the past decade, mainstream feminist theory has repeatedly and urgently cautioned against arguments which assert the existence of fundamental—or essential—differences between men and women. Any biological or natural differences between the sexes are often flatly denied, on the grounds that such an acknowledgment will impede women's claims to equal treatment.
In Caring for Justice, Robin West turns her sensitive, measured eye to the consequences of this widespread refusal to consider how women's lived experiences and perspectives may differ from those of men. Her work calls attention to two critical areas in which an inadequate recognition of women's ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814793497
SKU
V9780814793497
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99-50

About Robin West
Hailed by the Michigan Law Review as one of our most creative legal thinkers, Robin West is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of Progressive Constitutionalism and Narrative, Authority and Law.

Reviews for Caring for Justice
"Starkly essentialist reasoning sounds almost quaint by today's standards of gender equality. So it is with some surprise that general readers will encounter an intense and carefully reasoned defense of essentialism from the pen of one of America's best-known feminist legal theorists."
Women's Review of Books
"By critiquing traditional ideas about 'justice,' including economic theories about value, this ... Read more

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