Generations of Legal Theory Flashcards
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1st Wave
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- 1750s-1950s
- privileged, liberal
- suffragettes and person’s case
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2nd Wave
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- 1960s-1980s
- workplace, equal pay, reproduction
- “sex wars”, concerns with pornography
- small intersection with gay/civil rights
3
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3rd Wave
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- intersectionality, queer, anti-racism, post modernism
- focus on agency, radical, riot grrl
4
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4th Wave?
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- representation, media, glass ceiling
- # feminism, feminism is for everyone
- identity, commodification and transfeminism
5
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Problem with equality?
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- too liberal
- doesn’t account for lived experience (equity!)
- level playing feild
6
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Generation of Equality
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- 1970s
- emphasis on similarity, making room for women within existing male structures
7
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Liberal Feminism
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-suspicion of gendered law, targeting laws that treat men and women differently, quest for “gender-blind” law
8
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Formal vs. Substantive equality
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Liberal feminism wanted formal equality. Substantive equality is more like equity
9
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Enemy of Liberal Feminism
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Difference
10
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Generation of Difference
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- 1980s
- focus on pregnancy and motherhood, sexual assault, harassment and objectification, working environments
- equality not just identical treatment
11
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Cultural Feminism
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- relational/different voice
- feminine characteristics are not a bad thing
- women’s culture of care
12
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Enemy of Cultural Feminism
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Devaluation
13
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Carol Gilligan
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- psychologist
- reinterpreted Kohlberg’s work (says girls don’t develop same moral superiority as boys)
- ethics of justice (boys), ethics of care (girls)- women pay attention to specific differences in individuals
14
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Heinz Dilemma
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should he steal medicine to save his wife?
15
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Dominance Feminism
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- focus on difference in power
- maintain through sexual objectification, humiliation and degredation
