Drakopoulou, Maria (2000) The Ethic of Care, Female Subjectivity and Feminist Legal Scholarship. Feminist Legal Studies, 8 (2). pp. 199-226. ISSN 0966-3622. (doi:10.1023/A:1009266226936) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:1825)
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Abstract
The object of this essay is to explore the central role played by the ‘ethic of care’ in debates within and beyond feminist legal theory. The author claims that the ethic of care has attracted feminist legal scholars in particular, as a means of resolving the theoretical, political and strategic difficulties to which the perceived ‘crisis of subjectivity’ in feminist theory has given rise. She argues that feminist legal scholars are peculiarly placed in relation to this crisis because of their reliance on the social ‘woman’ whose interests are the predominant concern of feminist legal engagement. With the problematisation of subjectivity, the object of feminist legal attention disappears and it is in attempts to deflect the negative political consequences of this that the ethic of care has been invoked, the author argues, unsuccessfully. The essay concludes with suggestions as to how the feminist project in law might proceed in the wake of the crisis of subjectivity and the failure of the ethic of care to resolve it.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1023/A:1009266226936 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | academic feminism - care - crisis of subjectivity - ethic of care - feminist legal scholarship - Gilligan - relational jurisprudence - subjectitivity - woman - women |
Subjects: | K Law |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School |
Depositing User: | A. Davies |
Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2007 19:14 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 09:32 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/1825 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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