Cross-Dressing in the Master's Clothes

Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It, by Joan Williams, is reviewed. It is a stunningly rich effort, full of new ideas and methodological innovations. Its Deweyian pragmatism may be its greatest weakness, curtailing its normative challenge and limiting feminists to...

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Published inThe Yale Law Journal Vol. 109; no. 4; pp. 745 - 782
Main Author Abrams, Kathryn
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Haven, Conn The Yale Law Journal Company 01.01.2000
Yale Law Journal Co
Yale Law Journal Company, Inc
Subjects
Audiences
Caregivers
Conflict
Effects
Employers
Employment
Families & family life
Family
Feminism
Gender
Law
Nonfiction
Pragmatism
United States
Women
Work
United States > US
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Summary:Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It, by Joan Williams, is reviewed. It is a stunningly rich effort, full of new ideas and methodological innovations. Its Deweyian pragmatism may be its greatest weakness, curtailing its normative challenge and limiting feminists to the uncertain strategy of turning dominant norms against themselves. But Williams' provocative analysis of domesticity, and her challenge to consider the role of a non-academic audience in legal academic work, are crucial contributions that will continue to bear fruit for this problem and for others.
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ISSN:0044-0094
1939-8611
DOI:10.2307/797503