Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feminist legal theory is highly controversial, but it is the most dynamic area of law today. Feminist scholars have pioneered the concept of sexual harassment in the workplace as a violation of civil rights, catalyzed passage of rape shield laws that forbid courtroom inquiries into victims' sexual experience, and expanded the principle of self-defense to cover battered women accused of killing abusive mates...
...Feminist scholars are also questioning long-held assumptions in other areas. Catharine MacKinnon, who championed legal redress for sexual harassment on the job, is reframing the debate on pornography. MacKinnon, a visiting professor at Yale Law School, maintains that the central concern is not obscenity but sexual discrimination, because pornography hurts women and violates their civil rights. In a controversial stance that has pitted her against many feminists and civil libertarians, she favors granting injunctions against pornographers who "traffic in materials that can be proven to subordinate women...
Young scholars on the tenure track have found feminist theory a risky field of concentration. Despite her prominence, Catharine MacKinnon has been an academic nomad, journeying through seven law schools in the past decade. Last month she accepted her first offer of a tenured professorship, at the University of Michigan. Some feminists advise junior colleagues to nurture a reputation in safer areas of law before turning to their real interest. Increasing numbers of women, though, are ignoring this counsel. Declares Professor Martha Minow of Harvard Law School: "The lively response to feminist legal work confirms its power and its indelible...
...week and inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted...
...Feminist legal scholars are challenging male bias in everything from textbooks to fundamental doctrine. -- The Supreme Court allows the use of "drug-courier profiles" to spot suspected smugglers...