Women’s ambivalent relationship to law
(2021) Law and Society Association Annual Conference — Location: en ligne (27.May.2021)
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- Nowadays, there are great feminine and feminist expectations and addresses towards the judicial and political world: legislators and judges seem to constitute a precious – perhaps inescapable – resource to women who claim the respect of their rights, individually and collectively. At the same time, criticism is rising about the extent to which the law, as it is written and practiced today, (still) hinders equality for all – and whether the legal apparatus has not found its limits today, in the face of women's claims. Law has been, and sometimes might prove to be, a great tool for women's emancipation. However, it remains one of the mechanisms of our societies that are still characterised by male domination. This ambivalence is particularly perceptible in the discourses, practices, and expectations of activists. For example, criminal law constitutes both, on the one hand, a strong contradiction with the feminist horizon of a society that has shed domination over bodies, and, on the other hand, demand of women victims of violence and of those who defend their rights. This contribution will therefore aim to clarify what is at stake – not the law, not the women's rights, but the ambivalent relationship of women to law, from a legal perspective, nourished by (mainly French) radical feminist philosophy.
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Bernard, D. (2021). Women’s ambivalent relationship to law. Law and Society Association Annual Conference, en ligne. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/165718