Feminist legal methods: theoretical assumptions, advantages, and potential problems

Introduction, Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory

Linguistic Diversity and Theoretical Assumptions

1. Introduction The morphosyntactic diversity of human languages raises problems for many commonly held theoretical assumptions. Syntactic theories typically arise out of the study of a restricted set of issues in a specific group of languages, and then after the fundamental principles of the theory and its analytic constructs have been worked out on the basis of these data, an attempt is usual...

A theoretical agenda for feminist HCI

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Implicit Assumptions in Legal Knowledge Systems

n this article we address the issue of implicit assumptions in legal knowledge systems (LKBS). We illustrate that LKBSs have many underlying assumptions mostly arising during the design process. We divide these implicit assumptions over three categories: (1) assumptions about the user, (2) assumptions about the task, and (3) assumptions about the domain. Making assumptions in the design of a LK...

Four Feminist Theoretical Approaches and the Double Bind of Surrogacy