Incomplete correspondence: an unsent letter to Mary Joe Frug
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Mary Joe Frug's 'A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto' is innovative in its approach, despite inconsistencies. While Frug explores multiplicity and tension in feminist legal theory, she is perhaps too willing to try to control and resolve it. Her formulation of the suppression of women cleverly brings together opposing strands of feminist thought concerning maternity and sexuality. However, the confidence and hope Frug expresses in her call for greater understanding among diverse groups of feminists is of great value.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1992
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Patriarchy is such a drag: the strategic possibilities of a postmodern account of gender
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Feminism's best prospect for getting beyond essentialism and the sameness-difference debate comes from the postmodern approach to gender termed 'strategic provisionality' by Judith Butler. In her work, she identifies how gay and lesbian gender play reveals the extent to which gender is performance and is not an essential characteristic. The law acts to assert that certain genders are natural or original, but even the law has allowed more provisional interpretations of sex role and behavioral identity.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1995
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Which question? Which lie? Reflections on the physician-assisted suicide cases
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US Supreme Court justices wrote opinions regarding physician-assisted suicide according to questions they used to approach the issue and lies they chose to accept. Questions concerned liberty, suffering and due process. Two lies were that physician-assisted suicide did not already take place, and that by legalizing physician-assisted suicide the justices would not create a society where patients' right to live would have to be continually justified.
Publication Name: Supreme Court Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0081-9557
Year: 1997
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