LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Theory, Meritocracy
Document Summary
Feminism as a discipline focuses on the signiicance of gender and the societal inequality resuling form values and assumpions based on gender. Feminists are concerned with the implicaions of historic and contemporary exploitaion of women within society, seeking empowerment of women in men dominated insituions. Important characterisics: it represents the integraion of pracice and theory: an analysis of women"s subordinaion for the purpose of iguring out how to change it. Feminists success in law has been inluenced by their increase in law schools and overall increase within the profession at all levels: the personal is poliical . One basic divide that emerged early in the ariculaion of legal approach to feminist theory is sill signiicant today issue of gender diference. Tension between the idea of feminism as a method of analysis and gender neutrality of equality as its aspiraion. Point of airmaive acion is remedial ensure equal access and equal opportunity for equally distributed meritocracy and ability.
