Setting the Stage - Transforming Women's Lives (Chapter 1)
From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Rights, Ashgate Publishers, 2012
Posted: 31 Oct 2012
Date Written: 2012
Abstract
This is the first chapter in a book that will explore the theoretical approaches of feminist and other critical legal schools. The book intends to celebrate the many ways in which the feminist legal project has substantially improved the lives of women. This improvement is most pronounced in the more affluent societies, but not entirely so. A cursory glance at both statutory and case law will illustrate the influence of feminist legal theory. But this book will also lament some of the disappointments of the feminist project, most significantly, the failure to capture its truly transformative potential.
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