FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE
The purpose of this bibliography is to assist you in locating books and journals in our library on feminist jurisprudence. We have also included the names of other people who write from a feminist perspective.
Black’s Law Dictionary defines jurisprudence as “the philosophy of law, or the science, which treats of (sic) the principles of positive law and legal relations.” The most current edition (8th) has a reference to feminist jurisprudence defined as:
“A branch of jurisprudence that examines the relationship between women and law, including the history of legal and social biases against women, the elimination of those biases in modern law, and the enhancement of women’s legal rights and recognition in society.”
There are probably as many definitions of these terms as there are women; we have quoted some of them below and suggest you construct one that fits your particular philosophy:
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
---Rebecca West, 1913
“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist expression.” Feminist Theory from Margin to Center, 1984, p. 26.
---bell hooks
“I am not afraid to trust my sisters—not I.”
---Angelina Grimke
“Men their rights nothing more; women their rights nothing less.”
---Susan B. Anthony
“The labor of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
--- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Feminist jurisprudence is the analysis of law from the perspective of all women.” Feminist Jurisprudence, edited by Patricia Smith, 1993, p. 3
--- Catharine MacKinnon
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.”
--- Sally Kempton
“Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.”
--- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff—if it sneer, let it sneer…”
--- Lucy Stone
(Unless otherwise noted all quotations are from The Quotable Women, 1977.)
PERIODICALS IN THE STETSON LIBRARY
The following list of legal titles is from our online catalog. The titles are listed alphabetically and the call numbers are in three or four different locations in the library. Since this bibliography was first prepared we have added more journal titles. When using Legaltrac to find articles, use the standard keyword search and be sure to browse the “view other articles linked to these subjects” screen.
In searching for articles you can use the index files on Westlaw or Lexis. Remember these are ONLY index or bibliographic files and not the full text of law reviews or journals. When using Lexis (LGLIND) or Westlaw (LRI) you can be rather creative when searching for articles. Also, PROQUEST which includes Gender Watch and EBSCOHOST may be used to access full text (in most instances) articles. They can be found on the law library home page following the link to “online databases”
REMEMBER, current issues (unbound) of these law review are housed in the Ives Room under the call number.
American University Journal of Gender & the Law
(now American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law) K1 .M4 U54
Berkeley Women’s Law Journal (now Berkeley journal of gender, law & justice) K3 .E78
Buffalo Women’s Law Journal (formerly Circles) K4 .I77
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
K4 .A5258
Cardozo Women’s Law Journal
K4 .A758
Circles: The Buffalo Women’s Journal of Law And Social Policy (now Buffalo Women’s Law Journal)
K4 .I77
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
K4 .O48
Duke Journal of Gender & Law
K6.U455
Feminist Economics
HQ1381 .F46
Feminist Legal Studies
K8 .E45
Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law
K9 .E647
International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies
HQ75 .J68
Harvard Women’s Law Journal
K477 .A15 H37
Hastings Women’s Law Journal
K10 ,A884
Journal of gay, lesbian, and bisexual identity.
HQ75 .J68
Journal of Gender, Race & Justice
K12 .O8 G46
Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian and Gay Legal Issues KF4754 .L15 A38
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
K16 .I3
Perspectives: a newsletter for & about women
KF299 .W6 P37
Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies K22 .O881
Texas Journal of Women and the Law
K23 .E85
UCLA Women’s Law Journal
KF477 .A15 U24
William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law
K27 .I4685
Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal
K27 .I85
Women Lawyers’ Journal
KF299 .W6 W64
Women’s Law Journal
KF4757.5 .W6 W64
Women’s Law Reporter
K27 .O72
Women’s Rights Law Reporter
KF4757.5 .W6 W64
Yale Journal of Law & Feminism
K29. A25
ASSOCIATIONSNational Women’s Studies Association (American Association of Law Schools—Women in Legal Education) (Society of American Law Teachers)
ABA (American Bar Association)
ABA (Commission on Women in the Profession)
FAWLS (Florida Association of Women Lawyers)
INTERNET RESOURCES
Sexual Harassment Resources
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/docs/us/harass.html
Gender and the Law
http://academic.udayton.edu/gender/
Feminist Jurisprudence: an overview from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/feminist_jurisprudence.html
Feminist Law and Jurisprudence—from Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/law.html
A Research Guide for the Seminar in Feminist Jurisprudence. by Aris Woodham, Electronic Services Coordinator
http://law.wustl.edu/Library/index.asp?id=1385
Commision International pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles
(International Commission for the Abolition of Sexual Mutilation)
Feminist Legal Theory
http://www.law.stanford.edu/library/wlhbp/
Women's Legal History Biography Project
Hundreds of biographies of pioneering women lawyers practicing in the late 1800s through the end of the twentieth century. Many of these are written by students of women's legal history at Stanford University, with supplemental articles, obituaries, photographs, a timeline, historiography, and Web links. Maintained by librarians at Stanford's Robert Crown Library.
The Rise of Women in the Legal Profession
http://library.law.columbia.edu/rise_of_women/
This site presents images and documents related to American women in law and legal history. The "exhibit shows not only the high-profile successful women lawyers, but also those whose achievements are less well known but no less significant in providing career-building advice." Topics include legal education, gender bias, legal cases, and women in the judiciary and in practice. A joint project of the Committee of the Historical Records of the New York County Clerk and the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia Law School.
BOOKS IN STETSON LAW LIBRARY
The following list is in alphabetical order by author and not complete by any means. Some of the older titles are “classics”, recommended in various bibliographies. We found the titles in our library by using the library catalog with various subject headings. Library of Congress subject headings are somewhat rigid, if not archaic! The headings Feminism; Women—Legal status, law, etc; Sociological jurisprudence; Equality before the law; Feminist jurisprudence; Feminism, Women -- Legal status, laws, etc; Sex and law; Feminist theory; Feminist criticism; and Critical Legal Studies are some of the ones we used. When using Legaltrac, EBSCO or ProQuest—to find journal articles, you will find that you may use the heading Feminist Jurisprudence. When looking for books or articles, remember to be creative!
Allen, Anita L. Uneasy access: privacy for women in a free society. Rowan & Littlefield, 1987.
HQ1236.5 .U6 A44 1987
Applications of feminist legal theory to women’s lives: sex, violence, work and reproduction. Edited by D. Kelly Weisberg, Temple University Press, 1996
K349.A67 1996
At the boundaries of law: feminism and legal theory. Edited by Martha A. Fineman. Routledge, 1985
K644 .A55 1985
Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, Final Report. U.S. Department of Justice, 1985.
KF9444 .A822 1986 Vol 1-2
Baer, Judith A. Equality under the constitution: reclaiming the
Fourteenth Amendment. Cornell University Press, 1983.
KF4764 .B33 1983
Baer, Judith A. Our lives before the law: constructing a feminist jurisprudence.
Princeton, 1999.
K349 .B34 1999
Baer, Judith A. Women in American law: the struggle toward equality from the New Deal to the present. Holmes & Meier, 1991.
KF478 .W67 Vol 2 1991 (companion to Vol 1: From Colonial times to the New Deal)
Bartlett, Katherine T. Gender and law: theory, doctrine, commentary. Aspen Law & Business. 1998
KF478 .A4 B37 1998
Becker, Mary. Cases and materials on feminist jurisprudence: taking women seriously. West, 2001
KF478.A4 B43 2001
Becker, Susan D. The origins of the equal rights amendment: American feminism between the wars. Greenwood Press, 1981.
HQ1426 .B423
Berger, Margaret A. Litigation on behalf of women: a review for the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation, 1980.
KF478 .A7 B47
Blau, Francine D. The economics of women, men and work. Prentice Hall, 1998
HQ1421.B56 1998
Bremmer, Johanna. Women and the politics of class. Monthly Review Press, 2000
HQ1154 .B83 2000
Boumil, Marcia. Women and the law. Foundation Press, 1992.
KF478 .B68 1992
Buker, Eloise A. Talking feminist politics : conversations on law, science and the postmodern. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999
HQ1150. .B84 1999
Cahill, Ann J. Rethinking rape. Cornell University Press, 2001
HV6558 .C34 2001 .
Callender, Dale. Sexual harassment claims: step-by-step. Barron’s, 1998
KF4758 .Z9 C35 1998
Canavan, Marcia. Women’s Law. Rothman, 2000
KF478.C36 2000
Chamallas, Martha. Introduction to feminist legal theory. Aspen Law & Business, 1999
K349 .C49 1999
Charlesworth, Hilary.
The boundaries of international law : a feminist analysis / Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin.
Executive Park, NY : Juris Pub. ; Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2000.
KZ3405.C43 A33 2000
Clark, Judith Freeman. Almanac of American women in the 20th Century. Prentice Hall Press, 1987.
HQ1420 .C55 1987
Clift, Eleanor. Founding sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment John Wiley & Sons, c2003
JK1896 .C55 2000
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. The other women’s movement: workplace justice and social rights in America. Princeton University Press. 2004
HD6095 .C58 2004
Colker, Ruth. Abortion & dialogue: pro-choice, pro-life, and American law. Indiana University Press, 1992.
KF3771 .C65 1992
Collins, Patricia Hill. Black feminist thought: knowledge consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge, 1991
HQ1426 .C633 1991
Conte, Alba. Sexual orientation and legal rights. J. Wiley. 1998
KF4754.5 .C66 1998 Vol 1-2
Cornell, Drucilla. Beyond accommodation. Routledge, 1991.
HQ1190 .C67 1987
Cott, Nancy F. The grounding of modern feminism. Yale University Press, 1987
HQ1420 .C67 1987
Critical race theory: the cutting edge. Edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Temple University Press, 2000.
KF4755 .C75 2000
Dahl, Tove Stang. Women’s law: an introduction to feminist jurisprudence. Norwegian University Press, 1988.
K644 .D3 1988
Davis, Angela Y. Women, culture & politics. Random House, 1989.
E185.86 .D382 1989
A documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States, Colautti v. Franklin. F. B. Rothman, 2000
KF3771 .D63 2000
Drachman, Virginia G. Sisters in law: women lawyers in modern American history. Harvard University Press, 199888
KF299.W6 D7 1998
Drachman, Virginia G. Women Lawyers and the origins of professional identity in America: the letters of the Equity Club. University of Michigan Press, 1993
KF299.W6 W65 1993
DuBois, Ellen Carol. Women’s suffrage, women’s rights. New York University Press, 1998
HQ1236.5 U6 W63 1998
Dusky, Lorraine. Still unequal: the shameful truth about women and justice in America. Crown Publishers, 1996.
KF4758 .D87 1996
Eisaguirre, Lynn. Sexual harassment: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO, 1997
KF4758 .E36 1997
English, Holly, 1956-
Title Gender on trial : sexual stereotypes and work/life balance in the legal workplace / Holly English.
Imprint New York, N.Y. : ALM Pub., c2003.
KF299.W6 E54 2003
Eskridge, William N. Gaylaw: challenging the apartheid of the closet. Harvard University Press, 1999
KF4754.5 .E84 1999
Estrich, Susan. Sex and power. Riverhead Books, 2000
HQ1426 .E77 2000
Evans, Sara M. Born for liberty: a history of women in America.
The Free Press, 1989.
HQ1410 .E83 1989
The Fate of law. Edited by Austin Sarat. University of Michigan Press, 1991
K235 .F375 1991
Feminism confronts homo economicus : gender, law, and society / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Terence Dougherty.
Ithaca. N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
K349 .F453 2005
Feminist jurisprudence: the difference debate. Edited by Leslie Friedman Goldstein. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1992
KF478 .A5 F46 1992
Feminist jurisprudence. Edited by Patricia Smith. Oxford University Press, 1993
K644 .Z9 F459 1993
Feminist legal literature: a selective annotated bibliography. Compiled by F. C. De Coste. Garland, 1991
K644 .A12 D43 1991
Feminist perspectives on contract law / edited by Linda Mulcahy and Sally Wheeler.
London ; Portland, Or. : GlassHouse Press, 2005.
KD1554.A75 F46 2005
Feminist views of the social sciences. Special Editor of this volume, Christine L. Williams, Sage Publications, 2000
JA37 .A64 No. 571
Fineman, Martha A. Feminism, media, and the law. Oxford University Press,1997.
KF478.A5 F456 1997
Fisher, Berenice M. No angel in the classroom: teaching through feminist discourse. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
LC197 .F58 2001
Folbre, Nancy. The invisible heart : economics and family values. New Press, 2001
HB72 .F637 2001
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Feminism without illusions: a critique of individualism. University of North Carolina Press, 1991
HQ1190 .F69 1990
Frazee, David. Violence against women. Clark, Boardman Callaghan, 1997
KF4758 .F733 1997
Frug, Mary Joe. Women and the law. Foundation Press, 1992
KF4758 .A78 1992
Gender and human rights / edited by Karen Knop. Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
KJE937 .C65 v.12-2
Goldstein, Leslie Friedman. The Constitutional rights of women: in law and social change. Longman, 1979.
KF4758 .A7 G66
Gregory, Raymond F., 1927-
Women and workplace discrimination : overcoming barriers to gender equality / Raymond F. Gregory. Rutgers University Press, c2003.
HD6095 .G733 2003
Halberstam, Malvina. Women’s legal rights: international covenants—an alternative to ERA? Transitional Publishers, 1987.
KF4758 .H35 1987
Hoff, Joan. Law, gender, and injustice: a legal history of U. S. women. New York University Press, 1990.
KF4658 .K35 1990
Iglitzin, Lynne B. Women in the world: 1975-1985 the women’s decade. Second revised edition. ABC-CLIO, 1986
HQ1154 .W88383 1986
The international human rights of women: instruments of change. Edited by Carol Elizabeth Lockwood. ABA, Section of International Law and Practice, 1998.
K644.A35 I568 1998
International law : modern feminist approaches / edited by Doris Buss and Ambreena Manji.
Oxford : Hart, 2005
K349 .I58 2005
Jones, Kathleen B. The political interests of gender: developing theory and research with a feminist face. Sage Publications, 1988.
HQ1236 .P62 1988
Kaminer, Wendy. A fearful freedom: women’s flight from equality. Addison-Wesley, 1990.
KF4758 .K35 1990
Kanowitz, Leo. Women and the law: the unfinished revolution. University of New Mexico Press, 1969
KF478. K35
Kimmel, Michael S. Men’s lives. Macmillan, 1992
HQ1090.3 .M465 1992
Kingdom, Elizabeth. What’s wrong with rights:? Problems for feminist politics of law. Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
K644 .A57 K56 1991
Kirp, David L. Gender justice. University of Chicago Press, 1985
KF4758 .K57 1985
Legal feminisms: theory and practice. Edited by Clare McGlynn. Aldershot, 1998
K349 .L44 1998
Lindgren, J. Ralph. The law of sex discrimination. Second edition. West, 1993
KF4758 . A7 L56 1993
MacKinnon, Catharine A. Feminism unmodified. Discourses on life and law. Harvard University Press, 1987
KF487 .M24 1987
MacKinnon, Catharine A. Sex equality. Foundation Press, 2001 KF4758
KF4758 .A7 M33 2001
MacKinnon, Catharine A. Toward a feminist theory of the state. Harvard University Pres. 1989
K644 .M33 1989
Making women count: integrating gender into law and policy-making. Edited by Fiona Beveridge, Sue Nott, & Kylie Stephen. Ashgate, 2000.
K644 .M36 2000
Mansbridge, Jane J. Why we lost the ERA. University of Chicago Press, 1986
HQ1236.5 .U6 m38 1990
Mathews, Donald G. Sex, gender, and the politics of ERA: a state and the nation. Oxford University Press, 1990.
KF272 ;G46 1990
McGlamery, Susan, Paul M. George. Women and legal scholarship: a bibliography, working draft. {the authors}, 1990
KF272 .G46 1990
Miller, Jean Baker. Toward a new psychology of women. Beacon Press, 1986.
HQ1206 .M52 1986
Minow, Martha. Making all the difference: inclusion, exclusion and American law. Cornell University Press, 1990
K627 .M56 1990
Morewitz, Stephen John. Sexual harassment & social change in American society. Austin & Winfield, 1996.
HQ1237.5.U6 M64 1996
Neft, Naomi. Where women stand: an international report on the status of women in 140 countries, 1997-1998. Random House, 1997
HQ1154 .N39 1997
Nicholas, Susan Cary. Rights and wrongs: women’s struggle for legal equality. Feminist Press, 1986.
KF478 .N53 1986
Noddings, Nel. Women and evil. University of California Press, 1989.
BJ14101 .N63 1989
Orenstein, Peggy. Flux: women on sex, work, kids, love and life in a half-changed world. Doubleday. 2000
HQ1421.O74 2000
Otten, Laura A. Women’s rights and the law. Praeger, 1993
KF478 .A4 O88
Pateman, Carole. The sexual contract. Stanford University Press, 1988
HQ1206 .P35 1988
Pierce, Christine. Immovable laws, irresistible rights: natural law, moral rights and feminist ethics. University of Kansas Press, 2000
K428 .P54 2000
The Politics of law: a progressive critique. Rev. edition. Edited by David Kairys. Pantheon Books. 1990
KF4758 .A17 N37 1990
Rhode, Deborah L. Justice and gender: sex discrimination and the law. Harvard University Press, 1989.
KF4758 .R48 1989
Rhode, Deborah L. Speaking of sex: the denial of the gender of inequality. Harvard University Press, 1997.
HQ1237.5 .U6R48 1997
Richards, David A. J. Women, gays, and the constitution: the grounds for feminism and gay rights in culture and law. University of Chicago Press, 1998
KF4754.5 .R53 1998
Richardson, Janice, 1961-
Selves, persons, individuals : philosophical perspectives on women and legal obligations / Janice Richardson. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
K644 .R538 2004
Robson, Ruthann. Gay men, lesbians, and the law. Chelsea House Publishers. 1997
KF4754.5 .Z9 R63 1997
Robson, Ruthann. Lesbian (Out)law: survival under the rule of law. Firebrand Books. 1998.
KF4754.5 R63 1992
Robson, Ruthann, 1956-
Sappho goes to law school : fragments in lesbian legal theory / Ruthann Robson.
New York : Columbia University Press, c1998.
K349 .R63 1998
Romancing the tomes : popular culture, law and feminism / edited by Margaret Thornton. London : Cavendish, 2002
K349 .R66 2002
Schneider, Elizabeth M. Battered women & feminist lawmaking. Yale University Press, 2000.
KF9322.S36 2000
Sex, preference and family: essays on law and nature. Edited by David M. Estlund and Martha C. Nussbaum. Oxford University Press, 1997.
K625 .S49 1997
Skaine, Rosemarie. Power and gender: issues in sexual dominance and harassment. McFarland & Co. 1996.
HQ1237.5 .U6 S53 1996
Smart, Carol. Feminism and the power of law. Routledge, 1989.
KF370 .S63 1989
The State-by-state guide to women’s legal rights. McGraw-Hill, 1986
KF478. Z95 S73 1986
Taylor, Betty W. Feminist Jurisprudence, women and the law: critical essays, research agenda, and bibliography. Rothman, 1999
KF477 .A1 T39 1999