Mother as Trope in Feminist Legal Theory

Introduction, Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory

Trope Bundle Theory

The aim of this paper is that of analysing trope bundle theory, its promises and some of its problems. First of all, it will begin by showing what trope bundle theory is, its development and its undoubted appeal. Then, it will focus on two problems that affect this theory, both concerned with the relation of compresence invoked in order to explain what a material object is by the bundle theory....

Trope theory and the Bradley regress

Trope theory is the view that the world is a world of abstract particular qualities. But if all there is are tropes, how do we account for the truth of propositions ostensibly made true by some concrete particular? A common answer is that concrete particulars are nothing but tropes in compresence. This answer seems vulnerable to an argument (first presented by F. H. Bradley) according to which ...

Empowerment or Estrangement: Liberal Feminist Legal Theory, Muslim Feminist Translations, International Human Rights and Progressing to the Third Wave

Feminist Sociological Theory