Under Cover of Law
Subtitle: More on the Legality of Surreptitious Recording (Publication of the American Dialect Society)
Contributors: Thomas E. Murray (Editor); Carmin D. Ross-Murray (Editor)
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: August 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780817308254
Subjects: Communications law; Intellectual property, copyright & patents; Law and legislation; Dialects; Legal Reference / Law Profession; United States; Language; Canada; USA; Civil Procedure; Dialectology; English language; Moral and ethical aspects; Research
Description: The question of difference - between women and men and among women - is at the heart of feminist theory and the history of feminism. Feminists have long debated the meanings of sexual difference: is it an underlying truth of nature or the result of changing social belief? Are women the same as or different from men? Feminism and History argues that sexual difference, indeed that all forms of social differentiation, cannot be understood apart from history.

It brings together the best critical articles available to analyze the ways in which differences among women (along the lines of class, ethnicity, race, and sexuality) and between women and men have been produced.

The articles range across many countries and time periods (from the Middle Ages to the present) and they include analyses of western and non-western experiences. There are discussions of race in the United States and in colonial contexts. A variety of theoretical approaches to the question of difference is included; but in all cases, difference is the focus of the historian's analysis.