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Using the master's tools: How the law reshapes gender boundaries in the public-private sphere

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Using the master's tools: How the law reshapes gender boundaries in the public-private sphere (EL)
Using the master's tools: How the law reshapes gender boundaries in the public-private sphere (EN)
Tsaoussi, Aspasia I.
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According to an old stance, very popular among second-wave feminists, 'you cannot use the Master's tools to dismantle the Master's house'. In other words, you cannot change structural gender inequalities by enforcing the rules that 'the Master' put in place; you will only be reifying patriarchy. This article aims to prove that patriarchy can be beat in its own game. Through extensive legislative changes occurring in the past four decades in developed nations, the status of women has improved dramatically. Specific examples in key areas illustrate that social awareness of problems such as domestic violence, abortion, and women's employment rights have gone hand in hand with legal regulation. The developing world is also on the path to formal equality, with educated women spearheading change and effecting social progress with their valuable human capital. The law has provided powerful tools, establishing new models of behavior for men and women in both the private and the public sphere. Once these spheres were distinct and separate; today they have meshed together, their boundaries effaced, changing women's lives regardless of ethnicity or culture. (EN)
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Editorial Board of Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory
Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory
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Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία: Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής και Ηθικής Θεωρίας
English
2015-08-07
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sas/article/view/830
Συντακτική Επιτροπή (EL)
1108-3697
Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία: Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής και Ηθικής Θεωρίας; Τόμ. 26 (2010): Διάκριση δημόσιου και ιδιωτικού; 57-79 (EL)
Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory; Vol. 26 (2010): Διάκριση δημόσιου και ιδιωτικού; 57-79 (EN)
Copyright (c) 2015 Tsaoussi I. Aspasia (EN)
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