The ethic of care, female subjectivity and feminist legal scholarship

Feminist Legal Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 199-226

  Drakopoulou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic feminism; Care; Crisis of subjectivity; Ethic of care; Feminist legal scholarship; Gilligan; Relational jurisprudence; Subjectitivity; Woman; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844524251     PISSN: 09663622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009266226936     Document Type: Article

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