SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Color Blindness, Shared Experience, Critical Race Theory
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Feminist jurisprudence is a philosophy of law based on the political, economic and social context of women. View the law as a key factor in creating, reproducing, and obscuring gender inequality. They draw from their experience as women, and the experiences of women. Examine how male dominance/patriarchal power is embodied in law. Argue that the foundations of jurisprudence (the study of law and legal systems) are deeply imbued within a masculine perspective and privilege. Questions taken for granted assumptions about universality, objectivity and neutrality. Focus on the injustice of law and its denial of basic rights and freedoms to women. Challenge sexist assumptions which have denied women equal rights with men. Focus on women"s struggle for equality in a male dominated legal society. Contemporary statutory and judicial reforms - anti abortion laws, canadian charter of rights and. Freedoms, pay equity, sexual abuse and divorce laws.
