HIST 3234 Lecture Notes - Feminist Legal Theory, Domestic Violence, Fetus
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**we have the whole article but the extract captures her argument** Engender: male engendering offspring, has archaic meaning of a female conceiving or bearing offspring, definition: to bring about or produce something. Gender: refers both to men and women alike. In the 20th and 21st century there have been different kinds of legal theory, predominantly 3: thrust in legal theory. Richard posener (a proponent of this understanding of law: these people see law as a tool for wealth maximization in society. Monday, january 7, 2013: they believe that the rules of law (of contract law/property law) should be constructed so as to maximize social wealth, **dworkin greatly agrees with law as efficiency, feminist jurisprudence. Look at everything we"ve read all written by men or written from a man"s perspective. Starting in the 1960-1970"s women began speaking and writing books in their own words: started to be known as feminist jurisprudence.
