Feminist judgments : rewritten opinions of the United States Supreme Court /
"What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite, using feminist reasoning, the most significant U.S. Supreme Court cases on gender...
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Cambridge University Press,
2016
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| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a KF478 |b .S69 2016 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Stanchi, Kathryn M., | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Feminist judgments : |b rewritten opinions of the United States Supreme Court / |c Kathryn M. Stanchi, Temple University, School of Law; Linda L. Berger, University of Nevada Las Vegas, School of Law; Bridget J. Crawford, Pace University, School of Law |
| 260 | |a New York NY : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2016 | ||
| 300 | |a xlvii, 566 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction and overview -- Feminist judgments | |
| 520 | |a "What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite, using feminist reasoning, the most significant U.S. Supreme Court cases on gender from the 1800s to the present day. The twenty-five opinions in this volume demonstrate that judges with feminist viewpoints could have changed the course of the law. The rewritten decisions reveal that previously accepted judicial outcomes were not necessary or inevitable and demonstrate that feminist reasoning increases the judicial capacity for justice. Feminist Judgments opens a path for a long overdue discussion of the real impact of judicial diversity on the law as well as the influence of perspective on judging"--Publisher's website | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Women |x Legal status, laws, etc. |z United States |v Cases | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Feminist jurisprudence |z United States |v Cases | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Equality before the law |z United States |v Cases | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Discrimination |x Law and legislation |z United States |v Cases | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Feminism |z United States |x History |y 20th century | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Berger, Linda L., | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Crawford, Bridget J | |
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