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The Mythogenesis of Gender: Judicial Images of Women in Paid and Unpaid Labor


Lucy A. Williams


Northeastern University - School of Law

Phyllis T. Baumann


affiliation not provided to SSRN

Judith Olans Brown


Northeastern University - School of Law

1996

UCLA Women's Law Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 457-540, Spring 1996
Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper

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This is a paper about the power of certain, often reductive, mythologies (with both descriptive and normative aspects) in the development of legal doctrine relating to women receiving welfare and women in paid labor, and how in these contexts mythic thinking has contributed to gender oppression.

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Date posted: May 9, 2012 ; Last revised: June 5, 2012

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Williams, Lucy A., Baumann, Phyllis T. and Brown, Judith Olans, The Mythogenesis of Gender: Judicial Images of Women in Paid and Unpaid Labor (1996). UCLA Women's Law Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 457-540, Spring 1996; Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2055273

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Lucy A. Williams (Contact Author)
Northeastern University - School of Law ( email )
400 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
United States
Phyllis T. Baumann
affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )
Judith Olans Brown
Northeastern University - School of Law ( email )
400 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
United States
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