PP213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Critical Legal Studies, Socialist Feminism, Classical Liberalism
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Must read the book because he is summing it all up not telling us all of it. Critical legal studies -how feminism is a critical race theory. What is feminism -the struggle of equality and freedom in all spheres. The struggle concerns a wide rang of phenomena that women experience. i. e. in regards to body, employment, sexuality, etc. Feminism is not one thing there are many different forms of feminism. What unites feminism is the particular role that gender plays rather the the particular practice of oppression itself. Hitler is a clear form of oppression. wants to limits opportunities and freedom, this is a traditional form or oppression. But this is not how it works in society. There is always a oppressor and oppressed but it isn"t nearly as clear. There is a form of oppression that is structural and un-conscience form that opera- tions in the interpretation of the legal and political system and all other levels.
