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Feminist Legal Method and the Study of Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2014

Catherine O'Rourke
Catherine O'Rourke*
Affiliation:
University of Ulster
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Extract

Consistent with feminist scholarship more broadly, feminist legal methodology is more clearly unified by a common objective—revealing and challenging the role of law in exacerbating women's inequality—than specific methods per se. Nevertheless, common methods and approaches to the feminist legal study of institutions can be discerned. This brief intervention will focus on describing these common methods and approaches, explaining how they differ from feminist political science, and conclude with some reflections on how feminist legal studies might enrich feminist political science study of institutions in order to inform strategies for change.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 691 - 697
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2014 

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