Description: How would feminist perspectives and analytical methods change the interpretation of employment discrimination law? Would the conscious use of feminist perspectives make a difference? This volume shows the difference feminist analysis can make to the interpretation of employment discrimination statutes. This book brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite fifteen employment discrimination decisions in which a feminist analysis would have changed the outcome or the courts' reasoning. It demonstrates that use of feminist perspectives and methodologies, if adopted by the courts, would have made a significant difference in employment discrimination law, leading to a fairer and more egalitarian workplace, and a more prosperous society.
Brief description: Ann C. McGinley is William S. Boyd Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program at Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She writes about the intersection of race, gender, masculinities, and employment discrimination law. Author of Masculinity at Work: Employment Discrimination through a Different Lens (2016) and co-editor of Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach (2012), McGinley applies masculinities theory to advocate new interpretations of employment law.
Review Quotes: 'The book is useful not only for scholars and teachers interested in feminist legal studies, but also for those interested in intersecting genres of critical legal analyses based on race, gender, class, LGBTQI status, and membership in other vulnerable populations.' Kristin N. Henning, Feminist Legal Studies