Law is a gendered institution and how legal judgements reflect the gendered nature of the institution.
Date Submitted: 05/04/2004 11:57:41
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 7 pages (1974 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 7 pages (1974 words)
This essay analyses the ways that the law is a gendered institution and how legal judgements reflect the gendered nature of the institution. First, I will examine the nature of law. Second, I will examine feminists' perspectives of law in areas such as contracts, torts, lands, criminal, and family laws. Third, I will show that judges are gender-bias in the legal system by examining into several law cases. Then, I will discuss how judges translate …
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…institutions gains an exemplary expression in many areas of law especially in the law of contracts, torts, lands, criminal, and family. Law will continue to match women's judgements against the norm of men's judgements until the stories of women's lives can be genuinely told in legal discourses, and respected by being given authority (Graycar 1995: 281). A change must come; therefore, from many voices and strategies joined together to achieve the liberation of all subordinated people (women).
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