By rewriting both canonical and lesser-known tort cases from a feminist perspective, this volume exposes gender and racial bias in how courts have categorized and evaluated harm stemming from pre-natal malpractice, pregnancy loss, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, invasion of privacy...

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Other Authors:	Chamallas, Martha (Editor), Finley, Lucinda M. (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
Series:	Feminist judgments series
Subjects:	Torts / United States Women / Legal status, laws, etc / United States Feminist jurisprudence / United States
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	By rewriting both canonical and lesser-known tort cases from a feminist perspective, this volume exposes gender and racial bias in how courts have categorized and evaluated harm stemming from pre-natal malpractice, pregnancy loss, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, invasion of privacy, and the award of economic and non-economic damages. The rewritten opinions demonstrate that when confronted with gendered harm to women, courts have often distorted or misapplied conventional legal doctrine to diminish the harm or deny recovery. Bringing this implicit bias to the surface can make law students, and lawyers and judges who craft arguments and apply tort doctrines, more aware of inequalities of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation or identity. This volume shows the way forward to make the basic doctrines of tort law more responsive to the needs and perspectives of traditionally marginalized people, in ways that give greater value to harms that they disproportionately experience
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Dec 2020)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 427 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108613293
DOI:	10.1017/9781108613293