Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780847692699)

This new edition of Drucilla Cornell's highly acclaimed book includes a substantial new introduction by the author, which situates the book within current feminist debates. In Beyond Accommodation, Drucilla Cornell offers a highly original vision of what feminist theory can give contemporary women. She challenges essentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, arguing that any attempt to affirm woman's value and difference by either emphasizing her maternal role or repudiating the feminine only entraps women, once again, in a container that curtails feminine sexual difference, legitimates the masculine fantasy of woman, and reinstates, rather than dismantles, the gender hierarchy.

Author: Drucilla Cornell
ISBN-10: 0847692698
ISBN-13: 9780847692699
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/20/1999
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 114