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[Number] 7800 - 3 [Semester] 11542015 Spring [Description] This seminar explores a type of legal scholarship known as "feminist legal theory" or "feminist jurisprudence," one of the most important movements in legal scholarship today. Feminist legal theory draws from the experiences of women and men and from critical perspectives within other disciplines such as sociology, psychology, philosophy, and literary criticism to analyze the relationship between law and gender and understand the limits of, and opportunities for, legal reform. Historically, its essential concern was with the treatment of women by the legal system. Over the past three decades, it has developed into a general critique of the nature of law and the role of law in maintaining and perpetuating social hierarchies, with its own set of canons, methodologies, and internal critiques. During the semester, we will explore the many strands of feminist legal theory from a philosophical perspective, as well as apply feminist analysis to concrete areas of law such as family, employment, violence against women, reproductive freedom, and pornography. [Title] 
Feminist Legal Theory
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