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Feminist Approaches to Sexuality and Law Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2015

Rosemary Auchmuty
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Abstract

Sexuality and Law scholarship is a new and developing field but, like most legal scholarship, it is dominated by masculine concerns and methodologies. This article, by Rosemary Auchmuty, explains why research that ignores feminist concerns and methodologies will be incomplete and inaccurate, and suggests questions that should be asked of resources to ensure a complete and accurate coverage of the topic.

Keywords

womenfeminismgendersexualitylawlegal research
Type
Law, Gender and Sexuality: Sources and Methods in Socio-Legal Research
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 4 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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