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- Publisher
- Addleton Academic Publishers
- Copyright
- © 2009 Addleton Academic Publishers
- ISSN
- 2164-0262
- eISSN
- 2378-3524
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Abstract
To what extent does the essentialist Cult of Domesticity still haunt the legal imagination in the United States and elsewhere? This paper scrutinizes the feminist slogan “the personal is political” through a series of reform legal discourses and their repercussions for women and girls in the United States. I question whether feminist demands have actually improved the legal status of cisgender women, trans* and genderqueer people. In my critique of criminal and family court justice, I propose an alternate penal abolitionist path, Ubuntu justice. Keywords: gender bias; racial bias; criminal justice; cult of domesticity; unities doctrine; Ubuntu justice
Journal
The Journal of Research in Gender Studies – Addleton Academic Publishers
Published: Jan 1, 2016