Postmodern Legal Feminism

by Mary Joe Frug

Routledge, 1992, 0415906202, Trade Paperback, Good condition, front cover corner crease, no underlining, no highlighting, 214 pages.

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.

CONTENTS

A Note on the Text
Introduction
Feminist Doctrine
1 Sexual Equality and Sexual Difference in American Law 3
2 Feminist Doctrine 12
3 Progressive Feminist Legal Scholarship: Can We Claim "A Different Voice"? 30
Re-reading Contracts: A Feminist Analysis of Contracts Casebook
4 A Feminist Analysis of a Casebook? An Introductory Explanation 53
5 An Overview of the Contracts Casebook: Dis-Covering the Gender of Contract Culture 60
6 Rereading Cases: Challenging the Gender of Two Contract Decisions 87
A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto
7 Rescuing Impossibility Doctrine: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Contract Law 111
8 A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto 125
Notes 155
Index 207