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Feminist Legal Theories - Coggle Diagram
Feminist Legal Theories
Freeman
explains FLT as seeking to: analyse the contribution of law in constructing, maintaining, reinforcing and perpetuating patriarchy and it looks at ways in which this patriarchy can be undermined and ultimately eliminated TOC p. 13
First Wave
Mary Wollstonecraft – Women should be equally protected by the law and the law tOC p. 14
Second Wave
1960s and beyond, seeking freedom and equality for women, particularly in areas of employed work outside the home TOC p.14
Wendy Williams- feminists have two strategic choices 1) equality on the basis of similarities 2) special treatment on the basis of sexual differences TOC p. 14
Radical
Catharine MacKinnon - The equality standard is criticised as being based on men’s lives, The difference and ethic of care approach is also criticised as valuing care because women give it to men TOC p. 14
She argues says that such differences between men and women are hierarchically socially constructed to best suit men and to keep women oppressed TOC p. 14
Ethics of Care
Fem Mode
feminine mode based on caring – the maintenance of relationships, a web of communications and networks; Gilligan argued that women placed greater emphasis on context and the concrete effects of their decisions on other people tOC p. 14
Mas. Mode
objective, impartial, impersonal, unemotional, thinking of obligations, justice, rights and rules. That is, the generally idealised form of the legal and political system. TOC p. 14
Black feminist TOC .15
Tactic 1: A commodification of the female body: Highlights Women’s Injuries and harm Toc p. 24
Tactic 2: The problem of Patriarchy: the economic, political, and physical domination and devaluation of women: is the legal discourse the product of patriarchal relations? TOC p.24
Tactic 3: ethics of care: the right it protects is the right to something from the state, not a right to be kept free of it” (Robin West) TOC p.24
Tactic 4 Western feminism is against tradition and: Feminism is a form of critical thinking of challenging what men and women do TOC p. 24