GENDER AND THE LAW
GENDER AND THE LAW
Author(s): MECHTHILD NAGELSubject(s): Gender Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Social differentiation, Nationalism Studies, Penology, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: gender bias; racial bias; criminal justice; cult of domesticity; unities doctrine; Ubuntu justice;
Summary/Abstract: To what extent does the essentialist Cult of Domesticity still haunt the legal imagination in the United States and elsewhere? This paper scrutinizes the feminist slogan “the personal is political” through a series of reform legal discourses and their repercussions for women and girls in the United States. I question whether feminist demands have actually improved the legal status of cisgender women, trans* and genderqueer people. In my critique of criminal and family court justice, I propose an alternate penal abolitionist path, Ubuntu justice.
Journal: Journal of Research in Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 6/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 107-119
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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