Course:Law3020/2014WT1/Group K/Feminist Jurisprudence

The theory of Feminist Legal Perspective: Feminism is based upon a cluster of views - not a single school of thought. Feminist theory focusses on specific, concrete, and lived experiences of women. There are various different theories regarding feminism and the law, but they all have a common core. This includes an analysis of patriarchy as a starting point. Patriarchy is the system in which the world works and has worked for many of years. It's the systematic domination of women by men and it's invisible and this perpetuates it (people cannot change what they do not see!). Patriachy presents itself as being a natural embodiment of society, however, is constructed by us and maintained socially as our way of being. The various theories of feminism bring forth different ideas under the same umbrella of feminism that aims to address the discrimination felt by women.