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- Title: Why a Duck? are Feminist Legal Journals an Endangered Species, And if So, Are They Worth Saving?(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
- Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 273 KB
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In the movie Cocoanuts Groucho Marx is explaining the blueprints for a real estate development. He has just pointed out a viaduct, when Chico interrupts: "Why a duck?" you may be thinking when this symposium asks "Why a Feminist Law Journal?" The answer is not quite as absurd as you may think (and the dialogue may indicate). The development needs viaducts (and horses as well as Fords) because no one method of transportation works best in all situations. Similarly, legal scholarship needs feminist law reviews because a variety of journals can best transport ideas to people. Nevertheless, the symposium's invitational letter asked whether feminist legal journals have become "a victim of their own success" and whether "they [have] outlived their usefulness?" These questions imply two facts. First, that feminist legal scholarship is no longer marginal; second, that its marginal status is (or was) the raison d'etre for the existence of feminist journals. (2) Both "facts" do not hold up under scrutiny. In other words, marginalization may be a reason for the existence of feminist journals, but it is not the only one. Even if it were however, that justification would still exist because feminist scholarship has not yet been fully accepted into the mainstream of legal scholarship. Indeed, the simple act of asking questions indicates feminist legal scholarship's continuing marginal status.
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