Martha Fineman

Martha Albertson Fineman (* 1943 ) is an American legal scholar and philosopher . Since 2004 she has been the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta . From 1999 to 2004 she was the first holder of the Dorothea S. Clarke Chair in Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School . From 1990 to 1999 she was the Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law at Columbia Law School . Martha Fineman is considered a leading international authority in the fields of feminist legal theory and family law .

Honors

• Harry Kalven Prize, 1999
• Cook Award, Cornell University , 2008
• Honorary doctorate , Lund University , 2013

Fonts

• The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency (The New Press 2003)
• The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies (Routledge 1995)
• The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform (University of Chicago Press 1991).

Editing

• Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations (Ashgate 2009, co-editors Jack E. Jackson and Adam P. Romero)
• What's Right for Children: The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights (Ashgate 2008; co-editor Karen Worthington)
• Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society (Cornell University Press 2005; co-editor Terrance Doherty)
• Feminism, Media, and the Law (Oxford University Press 1997; co-editor Martha T. McCluskey)
• Mothers in Law (Columbia University Press 1995; co-editor Isabel Karpin)
• The Public Nature of Private Violence: Women and the Discovery of Abuse (Routledge 1994, co-editor Roxanne Mykitiuk)
• At the Boundaries of Law: Feminism and Legal Theory (Routledge 1990, co-editor Nancy Sweet Thomadsen).

Web links

• Literature by and about Martha Fineman in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emory Law: More Than Practice: Martha Albertson Fineman. Retrieved October 1, 2013 .