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020 _a9781107565609
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245 _aFeminist Judgments
_b: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court
260 _bCambridge University Press
_c2016
300 _a578,pp.
520 _aWhat 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 _aDiscrimination--Law and legislation
650 _aWomen--Legal status
650 _aFeminism
650 _aFeminist jurisprudence
650 _aWomen--Legal status, laws, etc
650 _aEquality before the law
650 _aUnited States
_vUnited States. Supreme Court
700 _aStanchi, Kathryn M.
700 _aBerger, Linda L.
700 _aCrawford, Bridget J.
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