In the last three decades, there has been extensive jurisprudential literature positing that the structure, values, and processes of the American legal and educational system, focusing heavily on adversarial battle among parties in court, and competition in law school, are fundamentally  male- centered

Wilets, Jim

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Gender Dimorphism In The United States Legal System: A  Post-Feminist  And Comparative Critique

There has been extensive jurisprudential literature positing that the structure, values and processes of the American legal and educational system, focusing heavily on adversarial battle among parties in court, and competition in law school, are fundamentally  male-centered.  This  male-female  construct suggests that there is an essential dichotomy between the two genders with respect to resolving disputes that is reflected in the legal system, and that this male-female dichotomy is harmful to all participants and perhaps to justice itself.
This article expands upon this literature by arguing that many of the dysfunctional characteristics of the American legal system labeled  male  in the traditional feminist critiques are, from a comparative and historical perspective, not essentially male at all, but simply deviant from the jurisprudential approach of the great bulk of the world\u27s legal systems, most of which are also dominated by men

Wilets, James

Gender Dimorphism in the United States Legal System: A  Post-Feminist  and Comparative Critique

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Gender Dimorphism In The United States Legal System: A Post-Feminist And Comparative Critique

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