SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Simone De Beauvoir, Socialist Feminism, Liberal Feminism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

Document Summary

Thinking about gender and race in socio-legal studies. The law in all its majestic impartiality forbids both rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. American political cartoon (1970: feminist approaches to socio-legal studies, anatole france quote vis- -(cid:448)is the (cid:862)offi(cid:272)ial (cid:448)e(cid:396)sio(cid:374) of the la(cid:449)(cid:863) A french poet, writer, journalist (anatole france) Feminists are critical of the law for different reasons. Feminists are a diverse group if people in terms of activism, critique and respectives. Some feminists are more (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al of the (cid:862)offi(cid:272)ial (cid:448)e(cid:396)sio(cid:374) of la(cid:449)(cid:863) a very brief overview of the diversity of feminist approaches. Canadian law and society remains sexist (salary gap, sexual violence, family violence, discriminatory employment practices) Not all feminists would agree upon analysis of these problems feminist approaches informing socio-legal studies (and our class: liberal feminism reform not resolution.