LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heteronormativity, Ableism, Feminist Legal Theory
3 Apr 2016
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There is no clear cut divide between substantive equality and social justice. Feminism should be imagined in the plural - feminisms and feminists, as a framework for thinking about gendered power dynamics and inequalities. This encourages thinking about sexism as systemic; deconstructing male privilege. Feminist legal theory calls into question assertions about neutrality and examines how gender inequalities can be perpetuated in/through the law, and aims to find ways to eliminate gender inequality, including the ways that t plays out in/through the law. It examines laws, policies, and practices that create disadvantages for women, how stereotypes about gender can play out in legal practice, and law as gendered. Feminists take divergent approaches for responding to gender inequality. Sameness approach argues that women and men are the same, and the difference approach argues that structural inequalities exist and that we should not act like women and men are the same.
