On The Insider: American Idol Tragedy
Find Articles in:
all
Business
Reference
Technology
News
Sports
Health
Autos
Arts
Home & Garden
advertisement
Most Popular White Papers
advertisement

Our Lives before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review,  March, 2001  by Binion, Gayle

premiumContent provided
in partnership with
premium

Our Lives before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence. By Judith A. Baer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 276p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

It is a daunting assignment to review a book after it has garnered a major award bestowed by the organization that publishes this journal. Judith Baer's Our Lives before the Law not only is a very worthy recipient of the 2000 Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women in politics but also is an erudite and wide-ranging critique of feminist thought with the goal of "forc[ing] feminists to confront ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.