LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ableism, Heteronormativity, Feminist Legal Theory
19 Apr 2016
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Shift to social justice, is to get outside the equality debate: use different language, try different legal approaches. What social order gets reproduced through law: patriarchal social order get reproduced through law. Stereotypes about feminism: man hating, anti-family, no shave armpits/legs, hate sex. Feminism should be imagined in the plural feminisms and feminists. Framework for thinking about gendered power dynamics and inequality: a tool for gendered based inequality, a way to challenge gender ideals, and power structures, feminism is in part systemic sexism, marginalization of women becoming. Encourages thinking about sexism as systemic deconstructing male privilege institutionalized. Through institutions (schools: may not seem sexist, but in actuality is, organizations and policies perpetuate sexism or gender norms, feminism aims to deconstruct the social gender hierarchy, privilege = unearned benefits. Calls into question assertions about neutrality and examines how gender inequality can be perpetuated in/through the law: examine the ways gender inequality exists in society.
