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Law's Patriarchy

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Zillah R. Eisenstein, The Female Body and the Law. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 235 pp.
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. 330 pp. $25.00.
Carol Smart, Feminism and the Power of Law. London: Routledge, 1989. 180 pp.

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Lynne Henderson
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Law & Society Review , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , 1991 , pp. 411 - 444
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Copyright © 1991 by The Law and Society Association

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I want to thank Paul Brest, Mary Becker, Lawrence Friedman, Robert Gordon, Lauren Robel, Morrison Torrey, Robert Weisberg, and Robin West for their helpful comments on drafts of this essay, and to the Chicago Feminist law teachers and friends for their help with the final draft. The essay is dedicated to the memory of my mother, who introduced me to feminism.

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