SOSC 3375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Feminist Legal Theory, Second-Wave Feminism, Radical Feminism
9 Mar 2020
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Week 6 feminist legal theories & legal feminism. Legal feminism = umbrella term, there are many kinds of feminism. Lacy: feminist legal theory is a broad set of approaches identified not so much by an autonomous methodology as by the distinctive substantive questions that it places on the agenda of socio-legal scholarship. Lacey"s three approaches to legal feminism: analytic positive and negative role of law. Law can set the productivity of understanding but also limits it. The breaking down and analytical process is to critique what norms are affected and its relation to the liberal subject: critique on various subjects of race, shape, etc, reconstruction. Offers ways to reinterpreted law, rewrite law, etc. 5 kinds: liberal, radical, socialist/materialist, anti-racist and postructuralist/foucaldian. First wave: early suffrage movements (late 1800"s, early 1900"s, associated with liberal feminism. Second wave: the civil rights era movements, (1960"s 1980"s), associated with liberal and radical materialist feminisms.
