After Misogyny

How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-38195-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change beyond litigation in the courts.

Just as racism is embedded in the legal system, so is misogyny—even after the law proclaims gender equality and criminally punishes violence against women. In After Misogyny, Julie C. Suk shows that misogyny lies not in animus but in the overempowerment of men and the overentitlement of society to women's unpaid labor and undervalued contributions. This is a book about misogyny without misogynists.

From antidiscrimination law to abortion bans, the law fails women by keeping society's dependence on women's sacrifices invisible. Via a tour of constitutional change around the world, After Misogyny shows how to remake constitutional democracy. Women across the globe are going beyond the antidiscrimination paradigm of American legal feminism and fundamentally resetting baseline norms and entitlements. That process, what Suk calls a "constitutionalism of care," builds the public infrastructure that women's reproductive work has long made possible for free.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suk, Julie C.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Legal Patriarchy and Its Aftermath

PART I HOW THE LAW FAILS WOMEN: MISOGYNY BEYOND MISOGYNISTS

1. The Equal Protection of Feminists and Misogynists

2. Overentitlement and Overempowerment

3. Misogyny and Maternity: Abortion Bans as Overentitlement

PART II WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT: REMAKING CONSTITUTIONS AND DEMOCRACY

4. From Patriarchy to Prohibition: Resetting Entitlements through Constitutional Change

5. Rebalancing Power through Parity Democracy

6. Building Feminist Infrastructures: The Constitutionalism of Care

Conclusion: Toward a Feminist Remaking of Constitutional Democracy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julie C. Suk is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment. She is a leading expert on gender and constitutional law in the United States and around the world.