Legal Feminisms: theory and practice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book explores the links between theories of feminism and the practice of law and does so through an examination of a number of contemporary themes in feminist legal studies. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this book examines, as one of its overarching themes, the existence of a distinctively female legal voice, or voices. In arguing for a recognition of the diversity of women’s experiences of the law and in the law, it is also maintained that the role of feminism as a political strategy must not be lost. Feminist legal studies is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of contemporary legal studies and the ambition of this book is both to capture and channel this dynamic. In introducing themes from politics, philosophy, literature, sociology and cultural studies, this book will be of interest to a wide ranging audience. Contents: Introduction, Clare McGlynn; Perspectives on Sex, Gender and the Legal Profession: The gendering of the professional subject: commitment, choice and social closure in the legal profession, Hilary Sommerlad; (Un) sexy bodies: the making of professional legal masculinities, Richard Collier. Interdisciplinary and Theoretical Perspectives: Fabled explanations of bias, Katherine O’Donovan; When mercy seasons justice: Shakespeare’s woman lawyer, Ian Ward; Rape law: harbouring an implicit relation between law and psychology, Fiona E. Raitt and M. Suzanne Zeedyk; The business of equality, Clare McGlynn. International, European and Comparative Perspectives: Contextualizing international women’s rights: Canadian feminism, race and culture, David S. Berry; Women and water law: from theory to practice, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Jenny Tooze; Women’s law and cultural understandings of gender in Finland, Anu Pylkkanen; Special protection of women’s rights in China, Junping He; A place for maternity in the European Union, Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella; The construction of women in the non-consensual sterilization debate: why a feminist analysis is needed, Mary Donnelly; Index.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.054 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".