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This 14 page paper considers the argument that "In using law's terms in order to challenge law, feminism always concedes too much". The paper considers this in connection to jurisprudence, with the discussion including different forms of feminist theory and the way in which they may influence the study and practice of jurisprudence. The bibliography cites 17 sources.
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a feminist approach to critical legal studies. Where this is used as an approach to critical legal studies, epically jurisprudence, it has been argued that the very nature of using
the law as a basis to critique the law, feminism may be seen as conceding to much. For any approach to legal studies to give value we need to
consider firstly that there need to be an approach whilst allowing criticism to be made and also now where it is unlikely there will be any single approach that is
separated and clearly different from others. For this reason, when looking at feminism we can see this as both a subdivision of the postmodernism movement which is broader than just
legal theory, but a movement that reflected social and political beliefs. This is a particularly difficult movement for many legal practitioners, which are predominantly male, to grasp. Unlike other
critical perspective, the interaction with the beliefs and the reflection of social and politic circumstances make this an approach where it is impossible to be truly objective (Waxman 2003, Rosenberg,
1996). To consider the role of the feminist approach we first need to look at how this can be applied in critiquing
the law. If we consider the concept of the law under critical legal studies the approach is that the law grows out of the power relationships within society that create
the logic and structure of the law. The law protects those who have formed the law, and that the legal system itself
may be seen as a collection of different social prejudices and beliefs that are legitimised with the use of the law. The thrust of the movement is to change the
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