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Book SynopsisThis book offers a jurisprudential meditation on and methodological performance of how feminist and legal thought come into relation. This book is about the conduct of one's scholarship and why it requires examination.
Across six essays, the book reintroduces official and unofficial jurisprudence writing of the late 20th century to show how disciplinary methods were transformed, and how relations between people and place, and between law and humanities, were transferred from the periphery to the centre of contemporary scholarship. To demonstrate this story, Feminist Jurisography experiments with genre, style, and form to historicise the relationship of a feminist jurisprudent to her own sources, methods, and interlocutors; and remind that it was feminist intellectuals from 1949 onwards who altered conducts of interdisciplinary scholarship in ways that are underacknowledged today. It exemplifies why naming a practice for yourself is an acknowledgment of relations of diff
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"Scholarship of law in the 21st century demands openness to diversity, attention to ethics, methodological reflectiveness, and above all an ability to reimagine our legal worlds in new ways. Ann Genovese meets these challenges with her highly imaginative and self-reflective book. Feminist Jurisography offers readers an entirely fresh approach to the writing of law as a writing of life. Throughout, the need to experiment with writing, with life, and with ideas is emphasised and the result is a highly engaging account of feminist legal writing as a practice as well as of the writer’s journey with and experiences of a vast, sometimes eclectic, and always fascinating oeuvre." Margaret Davies, Flinders University, Australia.
"Feminist Jurisography is a wonderfully radical, innovative, and imaginative text. It explores the relationship between feminism, law, history and writing in an intensely personal manner that has implications for all of us. In tracing the emergence and obligations of the feminist jurisographer, Genovese suggests an intellectual approach for the future." Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney, Australia.
"A powerful and refreshingly original approach to reading and writing about law. Grounded in the analysis of key feminist texts, such as de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Feminist Jurisography heralds a novel way of making sense of the world from a feminist perspective." Margaret Thornton, Emerita Professor, Australian National University.
Table of Contents1. Feminist Jurisography (Introductory Notes) 2. On Personal Relations, 1949 (A Jurisographical Report) 3. On Place and Displacement, 1962 (A Jurisographical Exercise) 4. On Books and Institutions, circa 1970 (A Jurisographical Examination of Relational Practices) 5. On Personae, 1988 (A Jurisographical Study of Theoretical Relations) 6. On Conducts of Life (A Feminist Jurisography, 2022)
