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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.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2002

Gayle Binion
Gayle Binion
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara,,
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Abstract

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 mainstream discourse and mainstream discourse to confront feminism" (p. 175). This goal is in the service of Baer's desire to construct a new jurisprudence of sexual equality, one that avoids the pitfalls Baer perceives as inherent in the efforts of others to date.

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Book Review
Information
American Political Science Review , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 199 - 200
Copyright
2001 by the American Political Science Association

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