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What Does Evolution Have To Do with Legal Enclaves?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2013

Jesse Crane-Seeber  and
Betsy Crane
Jesse Crane-Seeber
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University
Betsy Crane
Affiliation:
Widener University
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While we applaud Hudson, Bowen, and Nielson (2011) for demonstrating the correlation between two modes of contemporary sexist oppression (inequality in family law and violence against women), we are concerned about how they embed a contested narrative of human evolution into otherwise straightforward findings. We argue that claims about human evolution are unnecessary to their argument, and, more importantly, that the version of feminist evolutionary analysis they describe is less feminist than it could be.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 100 - 105
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2013

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