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Kathryn M Stanchi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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who next the janitors a socio Feminist Critique of the status hierarchy of law professors
Social Science Research Network, 2005Co-Authors: Kathryn M StanchiAbstract:This article, which was part of a symposium entitled "Dismantling Hierarchies in Legal Education", uses social inequality and Feminist theories to demonstrate that American law faculties are stratified into an illegitimate and gendered hierarchy. It Critiques the subjective and contrived nature of this faculty hierarchy and the various criteria used to support it. In particular, it focuses on the academy's use (and misuse) of the academic triad of scholarship, service and teaching to maintain inequality among law faculty. Finally, it challenges law professors and administrators to recognize the hierarchy and work toward greater fairness and parity in the legal academy.
Aisha Ahmad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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welfare queens thrifty housewives and do it all mums celebrity motherhood and the cultural politics of austerity
Feminist Media Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Kim Allen, Laura Harvey, Heather Mendick, Aisha AhmadAbstract:In this paper, we consider how the cultural politics of austerity within Britain plays out on the celebrity maternal body. We locate austerity as a discursive and disciplinary field and contribute to emerging Feminist scholarship exploring how broader political and socio-economic shifts interact with cultural constructions of femininity and motherhood. To analyse the symbolic function of mediated celebrity maternity within austerity, the paper draws on a textual analysis of three celebrity mothers: Kate Middleton, Kim Kardashian, and Beyonce. This analysis was undertaken as part of a larger qualitative study into celebrity culture and young people's classed and gendered aspirations. We show how these celebrity mothers represent the folk devils and fantasy figures of the maternal under austerity—the thrifty, happy housewife, the benefits mum, and the do-it-all working mum—and attempt to unpick what cultural work they do in the context of austerity within Britain. Through the lens of celebrity motherhood, we offer a Feminist Critique of austerity as a programme that both consolidates unequal class relations and makes punishing demands on women in general, and mothers in particular.
Nicola Lacey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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unspeakable subjects Feminist essays in legal and social theory
1998Co-Authors: Nicola LaceyAbstract:Nicola Lacey’s book presents a Feminist Critique of law based on an analysis of the ways in which the very structure or method of modern law is gendered. All of the essays in the book therefore engage at some level with the question of whether there are things of a general nature to be said about what might be called the sex or gender of law. Ranging across fields including criminal law, public law and anti-discrimination law, the essays examine the conceptual framework of modern legal practices: the legal conception of the subject as an individual; the concepts of equality, freedom, justice and rights; and the legal construction of public and private realms and of the relations between individual, state and community. They also reflect upon the deployment of law as a means of furthering Feminist ethical and political values. At a more general level, the essays contemplate the relationship between Feminist and other critical approaches to legal theory; the relationship between the ideas underlying Feminist legal theory and those informing contemporary developments in social and political theory; and the nature of the relationship between Feminist legal theories and Feminist legal politics.
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the politics of community a Feminist Critique of the liberal communitarian debate
1993Co-Authors: Elizabeth Frazer, Nicola LaceyAbstract:Feminism and political theory liberal individualism Feminist practice, formal equality and the rule of the law the communitarian Critique of individualism and universalism a Feminist Critique of communitarianism beyond the liberal-communitarian debate.
Marianne A Ferber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the study of economics a Feminist Critique
The American Economic Review, 1995Co-Authors: Marianne A FerberAbstract:The small representation of women and minorities among students of economics has been noted for some time. While the proportion of B.A.'s earned by women in psychology rose from 36.7 percent in 1949-1950 to 70.8 percent in 1988-1989, in sociology from 50.6 percent to 68.8 percent, and even in mathematics from 22.6 percent to 46.0 percent, in economics it has increased from only 7.6 percent to 32.5 percent. The share of Ph.D.'s earned by women in 1988-1989 was 56.2 percent in psychology, 50.9 percent in sociology, 26.6 percent in business, 19.4 percent in mathematics, and 19.0 percent in economics. Hence, general sexism in the classroom1 does not appear to be the main culprit, nor do the explanations that mathematics requirements inhibit women's entry into economics or that women are uninterested in business-related fields seem convincing. Instead, one must look to factors specific to economics. Evidence that women students do not perform as well as men in introductory economics courses (John J. Siegfried, 1979; Gordon Anderson, et al., 1994), although they have higher grades overall, further adds to this conclusion. For these reasons there has been considerable interest among Feminist economists in the "chilly classroom climate," for women and minority students in economics courses. In this paper, the focus is on the small representation of women among economics faculties, the biased subject matter, and the narrow approach of traditional economics. The number of women faculty can only be increased gradually as their representation among graduate students and new faculty hires increases. However, the subject matter can be changed more rapidly, as the consciousness of instructors and authors of textbooks is raised, and the challenge to the traditional economic approach appears to be making more progress than most of us dared to hope only a few short years ago. Thus, in spite of the remaining problems, there is reason to believe that in economics, as in most other disciplines, women's progress will eventually accelerate.
Purnima Mankekar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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love jihad digital affect and Feminist Critique
Feminist Media Studies, 2021Co-Authors: Purnima MankekarAbstract:In the face of the affective publics generated by online media, Feminist critics have had to rethink our epistemological assumptions. This becomes particularly urgent when those of us who came of a...
