LS325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Second-Wave Feminism, Feminist Legal Theory, Heteronormativity
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Usually taken to mean a critique of law generated internally to legal scholarship by feminist lawyers. It was not until a critical mass of women with feminist consciousness had secure employment within the legal academy that the internally generated feminist critique of law could fully develop. In the 1970s the landscape of legal theory changed fundamentally with the advent of a short lived critical legal studies movement followed by a more long-lasting range of critical approaches to law, of which feminist legal theory is one. Sexuality is an aspect of human experience that is at once produced through society, regulated by society, and used to regulate society. Five integral areas to the social organization of sexuality are: kinship and family systems, economic and social organization, social regulation, political interventions and the development of cultures of resistance. Three significant macro shifts in the relationship between law and human sexuality in the last 25 years: