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Under Development: GenderFeminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Studies

Under Development: Gender: Feminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Studies [Feminist legal theory has not articulated any particular position concerning development studies or the role of law in development.2 Feminists and gender experts, however, have engaged law as part of development strategies, just as legal scholars have articulated a story about the role that law has been attributed in development.3 The purpose of this chapter is to describe both, showing how activists and experts could profit from the sophisticated understanding of law that feminist legal theory has matured, but also, how the particular pressure that the question of development places on political agendas could be useful for theoretical development. I start with a description of four feminist points of view about the law, then proceed to explain two feminist projects in law and their relationship to development, and finish with some ideas about how setting the two side by side might illuminate avenues of inquiry and critical insights.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Under Development: GenderFeminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Studies

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Verschuur, Christine; Guérin, Isabelle; Guétat-Bernard, Hélène
Sierra, Isabel Cristina Jaramillo
Under Development: Gender — Jan 22, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-67554-8
Pages
127 –148
DOI
10.1057/9781137356826_7
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Abstract

[Feminist legal theory has not articulated any particular position concerning development studies or the role of law in development.2 Feminists and gender experts, however, have engaged law as part of development strategies, just as legal scholars have articulated a story about the role that law has been attributed in development.3 The purpose of this chapter is to describe both, showing how activists and experts could profit from the sophisticated understanding of law that feminist legal theory has matured, but also, how the particular pressure that the question of development places on political agendas could be useful for theoretical development. I start with a description of four feminist points of view about the law, then proceed to explain two feminist projects in law and their relationship to development, and finish with some ideas about how setting the two side by side might illuminate avenues of inquiry and critical insights.]

Published: Jan 22, 2016

Keywords: Domestic Violence; Legal Rule; Strict Liability; Parity Project; Gender Violence

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