Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law by Linda Mulcahy

Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law by Linda Mulcahy

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This edited collection questions the assumptions about feminist perspectives on contract law made in mainstream textbooks and the ideologies that underpin them, drawing attention to the ways in which the law of contract has facilitated the virtual exclusion of women, the feminine and the private sphere from legal discourse.

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Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law by Linda Mulcahy

The law of contract is ripe for feminist analysis. Despite increasing calls for the re-conceptualisation of neo-classical ways of thinking, feminist perspectives on contract tend to be marginalised in mainstream textbooks. This edited collection questions the assumptions made in such works and the ideologies that underpin them, drawing attention to the ways in which the law of contract has facilitated the virtual exclusion of women, the feminine and the private sphere from legal discourse. Contributors to this volume offer a range of ways of thinking about the subject and cover topics such as the feminine offeree, feminist perspectives on contracts in cyberspace, the forgotten world of women and contracts, restitution and feminist economic theory, the gendered power dynamics of undue influence, and the feminisation of dispute resolution.

"Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law provides an excellent contribution to contract law and to the Feminist Perspectives series.. a book well worth reading." - Janice Richardson in Feminist Legal Studies, Issue 14 (2006)

"This book offers fascinating insights...[and] makes an important contribution to contract scholarship." - International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 2.4 (2007)


"Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law provides an excellent contribution to contract law and to the Feminist Perspectives series... a book well worth reading." - Janice Richardson in Feminist Legal Studies, Issue 14 (2006)

"This book offers fascinating insights...[and] makes an important contribution to contract scholarship." - International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 2.4 (2007)

"Each chapter in Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law illuminates the less visible malecentric aspects of contract law, renewing and introducing feminist approaches that enrich historical, jurisprudential and theoretical understandings that have relevance for broader aspects of law." - Dermot Feenan, Social & Legal Studies, 17 (2), 2008

Linda Mulcahy and Sally Wheeler are Professors of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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ISBN 13 9781859417423
ISBN 10 1859417426
Title Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law
Author Linda Mulcahy
Series Feminist Perspectives
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2005-04-29
Number of pages 192
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