CJL 3038 Lecture 6: CJL3038 - Module 4.5-4.7

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CJL 3038
• Professor: Levett Lora

Document Summary

Looks at the source of conflict as gender inequality in our society vs. Marxist theory looks at economic inequality: draws from the experiences of women and from analyzing the relationship between law and gender. Look at the relationship between how the law treats both men and women. Women"s experiences vs men"s experiences in the legal system. Both, in the professional levels and in their everyday experiences with the legal system/ Developed against the backdrop of mass political movements. Along with all the civil rights act and political movements in the. 1950s and 60s, this is really where you saw flt take off. People started paying attention to how the law has looked at gender differently over time. Started to look at how the law perhaps may perpetuate some of those gender inequalities that we"ve seen throughout time: society is viewed as patriarchal, organized and dominated by men, and generally, not all hospitable to women.