法律的性别（附讨论）-法搜-中国法律信息搜索网

　　原载：北大法律信息网BBS 2000年5月4日
　　
　　附：雅典学园英美法论坛上的部分讨论
　　【日月经天】2003-2-14 11:33:05
　　郑老师，那衡平法是不是具有女性性征？　
　　
　　【郑戈】2003-2-14 11:36:26
　　唔，这个问题得想想先。看看别的同志们有何话说。
　　
　　【Taohuaxian】2003-2-14 12:41:51
　　我学女权运动（这个比女性运动好，更加体现其张牙舞爪的本质〕的时候
　　专门有一个部分叫
　　sexuality
　　
　　【日月经天】2003-2-14 13:03:39
　　女权本指right，而汉译有些歧义，容易让人联想到“河东狮吼”之类的事情，现在大家比较喜欢称女性主义。女权主义也译作feminism，不知与女性主义有何区别？　
　　
　　【郑戈】2003-2-14 13:21:28
　　楼上的MM，“女权主义”或“女性主义”是对同一个词的不同译法。像桃仙倾向于“女权主义”，而我则倾向于“女性主义”这个译法。下面是美国密歇根大学法学院的Catharine A. MacKinnon教授（可能是美国最有影响的女性主义法学鼓吹者）开设的“女性主义理论与法学”这门研讨课的课程简介。不像桃兄说的那么恐怖。
　　Feminist Theory & Jurisprudence
　　Feminist jurisprudence offers a vast variety of challenging, intriguing scholarship on women, life, and the law. Is Law male? If so - in what sense? Can law be more "feminine"? Are women significantly "different" from men or is this seeming difference merely an expression of their domination in male supremacist societies, and what role does law play in the creation of women’s status or "difference"? Can law play an active part in liberating women from the domination of men? Should it be used to "free" them from traditional roles and social identities? Is law so inherently male that it must always re-enforce patriarchy? Do women still have cohesive interests which the law can impair or promote, or are they better served being divided into separate sub-groups, each perhaps necessitating its unique analysis of the law? How does post-modern legal thought affect these concerns? Does it offer women new horizons, or does it threaten to obscure their predicaments, needs, achievements and hopes of liberation? And how should we translate all this in considering specific legally-related issues such as sexual harassment, pornography or abortion? Such dilemmas, which have an immediate relevance to our lives, have been tackled and explored by many legal feminists whose writings offer diverse points of view, emphases and conclusions. This seminar is designed to explore these questions through discussion among students from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds. Ideally, some students will be very sophisticated about feminist theory, while it will be entirely new to others. For the first half of the semester we will read some of the classic texts of feminist jurisprudence together. During the second half, we will discuss feminist approaches to specific issues.