Feminist Jurisprudence

When people take a quick glance at the heading of “Feminist Jurisprudence”, they tend to not read beyond the title. They drop everything and run because of the key word, feminist. Most people, including men and women, do not embrace this; they fear or shun the concept. Most, place the common radical stereotype of feminists being overbearing men hatters. In reality, this is not the case. Most people are feminists and do not even know it. Dictionary.com expresses feminism as “the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men”. Therefore, if you just believe that men and woman should be equal then you could title yourself, a feminist. What is also remarkable is that the feminist movement evolved into a movement not only for women rights, but into a broader category of rights to all underprivileged groups. Women are one group as a whole, yet there is still diversity amongst women. There are women of color, poor women, white women, wealthy women, lesbians, and such others. Feminism goes beyond the scope of just demanding equal rights for women because each individual possesses come other quality. Feminist Jurisprudence also followed this tradition as of evolving into something more than just equality between the sexes. During the third phase of this discipline, it broadened its theory of society privileging certain groups above others. Therefore, feminism does not just benefit woman, but it benefits society as a whole. This discipline is trying to break those oppressive social norms which everyone clings to and bring equality to all.