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Through A Glass Darkly: Paradigms Of Equality And The Search For A Woman's Jurisprudence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2020

Linda J. Krieger
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Abstract

In this article, Ms. Krieger explores the controversy concerning pregnancy disability leave presented by the case of California Federal Savings v. Guerra in light of Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific paradigm change and Carol Gilligan's theory regarding sex differences in moral reasoning. She argues that the controversy reflects a period of paradigm crisis in equality jurisprudence, brought about in part by the recent inclusion of greater numbers of women into the jurisprudential community.

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Hypatia , Volume 2 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Philosophy and Women Symposium , Winter 1987 , pp. 45 - 61
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Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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