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Robert Leckey Contextual Subjects: Family, State, and Relational Theory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008, 355 p.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Diana Majury
Affiliation:
Department of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
Anne Quéma
Affiliation:
Department of English, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS

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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 2010

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References

6 Nedelsky's use of childrearing as a metaphor to address the embedded individual and his or her relation to social structures can be interpreted as an earlier feminist attempt to blur this division by resorting to a gender-inflected and maternal discourse: Nedelsky, Jennifer, “Reconceiving Autonomy: Sources, Thoughts and Possibilities,” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 1 (1989): 736, 12Google Scholar.

7 “One of the oldest feminist arguments is that women are not seen and defined as themselves, but in their relations to others”: Nedelsky, “Reconceiving Autonomy,” 9. Nedelsky goes on to refer to Simone de Beauvoir's concept of the Other.

8 “Contrary to the occasional claims of relational theorists, the context is not something to be examined in isolation from distinctly normative claims” (196).

9 See Smart, Carol, Law, Crime, and Sexuality (London: Sage, 1995)Google ScholarPateman, Carole, “Self-Ownership and Property in the Person: Democratization and a Tale of Two Concepts,” Journal of Political Philosophy 10, 1 (2002): 2053CrossRefGoogle Scholar.