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01543 a2200241 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781107565609 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
349.73082 |
| Item number |
FE- |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Feminist Judgments |
| Sub Title |
: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication |
2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
578,pp. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite, using feminist reasoning, the most significant US Supreme Court cases on gender from the 1800s to the present day. The twenty-five opinions in this volume demonstrate that judges with feminist viewpoints could have changed the course of the law. The rewritten decisions reveal that previously accepted judicial outcomes were not necessary or inevitable and demonstrate that feminist reasoning increases the judicial capacity for justice. Feminist Judgments opens a path for a long overdue discussion of the real impact of judicial diversity on the law as well as the influence of perspective on judging |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Discrimination--Law and legislation |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Women--Legal status |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Feminism |
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| Topical Term |
Feminist jurisprudence |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Women--Legal status, laws, etc |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Equality before the law |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
United States. Supreme Court |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Stanchi, Kathryn M. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Berger, Linda L. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Crawford, Bridget J. |
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Books |
