A postmodern feminist legal manifesto (an unfinished draft)
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A postmodern critique shows that legal language sexualizes, maternalizes and terrorizes women. However, feminist jurisprudence is weakened by factional disputes over proper legal responses to male domination. This is exemplified by the divisions among feminists on anti-prostitution laws, and perhaps most dramatically, by the anti-pornography statutes promoted by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. Feminists must reckon with the differences among women in order to successfully challenge misogynist laws and practices.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1992
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The example of lesbians: a posthumous reply to professor Mary Joe Frug
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Mary Joe Frug's 'A Postmodernist Feminist Legal Manifesto' is limited by its lack of an anti-essentialist perspective. While Frug successfully demonstrates the sexualizing, maternalizing and terrorizing of female bodies through legal doctrine, she neglects the effects of such doctrine on lesbians. A more diverse look at female socialization is necessary to understand how some groups of women are not viewed as representative females. Feminists must come to terms with the differences in their own camp.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1992
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The postmodern in feminism
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Mary Joe Frug's unfinished draft of 'A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto' addresses the conflicts among contemporary feminist legal theorists. The debate among feminists over responses to issues like pornography demonstrates the postmodern indeterminacy of language. A linguistic and logical imperative demands that feminists come to grips with their differences in order to defend against patriarchy.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1992
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