Feminist Perspectives on Evidence

by Louise Ellison and Mary Childs

Questions of evidence and proof are fundamental to the operation of substantive law and to our understanding of law as a social practice. The study of evidence involves issues of central concern to feminist scholars, including matters of epistemology, psychology, allocation of risk and responsibility.

Debates about evidence, like debates about feminism, involve questioning ideas of rationality and truth, as well as claims to knowledge both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185941527X
• ISBN13: 9781859415276
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 300 Pages