Center for Women's Justice - feminism

Fundamentalist Feminists Spar with the Israeli Patriarchy: Interpretive Strategies of Israeli Rabbinic Court Pleaders

orc — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:31:09 +0000

מחבר:

Susan Weiss

בית משפט:

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. 2008

תאריך:

20/07/2016

היכן פורסם:

Bingley, United Kingdom

מילות מפתח:

This paper outlines three different approaches taken by Israeli female court pleaders when confronting the gender inequalities inherent in the Orthodox Jewish tradition. Some pleaders reinterpret the tradition, trying to reconcile it with modern notions of equality. Others “push aside” certain parts of Halacha, as other argue against it.

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Case studies

Women, Resources, and Changing the Religious System: A Case Study of the Orthodox Jewish Wedding Ritual

orc — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:07:54 +0000

מחבר:

Irit Cohen

בית משפט:

Brandeis University Press 2013

תאריך:

18/07/2016

היכן פורסם:

Waltham, MA

מילות מפתח:

This article presents a study that observed religious Jewish feminists in Israel as they try to adapt the Jewish wedding ceremony to be more egalitarian. The author and conductor of the study outlines the steps taken and tools used by different brides to mine the tradition in order to change the marriage ritual in ways that lend more respect to women.

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Case studies

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence

orc — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:58:46 +0000

מחבר:

Catharine A. MacKinnon

בית משפט:

Signs 1983

תאריך:

18/07/2016

היכן פורסם:

Chicago, IL

מילות מפתח:

MacKinnon describes how both Marxism and feminism provide accounts of the way social arrangements and hierarchies can be rational and systematic, yet, at the same time, unjust. She describes how “sexuality” --like “work”-- is social constructed in a manner that sustains hierarchal relationships and how “sexuality” continues to sustain that hierarchy. She asks: “How does male power become state power. Can such a state be made to serve the interests of those upon whose powerlessness its power is erected?

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Theory

Feminist Critical Theories

orc — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:54:07 +0000

מחבר:

Deborah L. Rhode

בית משפט:

Stanford Law Review 1990

תאריך:

18/07/2016

היכן פורסם:

Palo Alto, CA

מילות מפתח:

feminism

legal studies

critical legal studies

Rhode attempts to define the objectives and methodologies that are common to “feminist critical theories” that aim to change the current distributions of power between men and women. According to Rhode, feminist critical theories: ask the women’s question, promote gender equality, ground themselves in practical problems and practical reasoning (the experience of oppression), are skeptical towards everything including skepticism, draw on “rights” theories when necessary, and construct alternative visions of the good society.

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Theory

Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents; Toward a Resolution of the Debate

orc — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:39:05 +0000

מחבר:

Valentine M. Moghadam

בית משפט:

Signs 2002

תאריך:

18/07/2016

היכן פורסם:

Bergen, Norway

מילות מפתח:

Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents; Toward a Resolution of the Debate by Valentine M. Moghadam

Bergen, Norway; Signs, 27(4), 1135-1171

2002

Moghadam analyzes feminism in Islam. Using the case of Iranian Islamic feminists to test her thesis, Moghadam tries to reconcile the debate between Muslim feminists who think that the discrimination endured by Muslim women can be resolved through hermeneutic reinterpretation of the Islamic tradition, and those who think the such reinterpretation is misguided. She concludes that while reinterpretation is laudable and helpful, no state should have an official religion, and holy texts should not be the basis of law. Regardless of their respective approaches, Moghadam argues that all feminists should work together to achieve goals instead of focusing on disagreements.

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Theory

How to Make a New Tort: Three Paradoxes

orc — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:27:45 +0000

מחבר:

Anita Bernstein

בית משפט:

Texas Law Review 1996-1997

תאריך:

18/07/2016

היכן פורסם:

Austin, TX

מילות מפתח:

tort

feminism

women

How to Make a New Tort: Three Paradoxes by Anita Bernstein

Austin, Texas; Texas Law Review 1539-1564

1996-1997

Bernstein explores the way that torts are constructed and how they can serve feminist purposes. She argues that in order for a new tort to succeed in rectifying harms done to women, the tort must be constructed in a way that makes it appear as if it were not novel, not rooted in tort but in contract, and does not arise out of feminist agency.

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Theory