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Feminist Jurisprudence is emerging theory to see the society and law from feminist point of view. Law is an instrument to change the society and feminist jurisprudence will definitely help to understand the law from feminist perspective. Feminist jurisprudence has tried to work at ground level. Mostly it is divided in to first wave feminism, second wave feminism and third wave feminism. Right from the Seneca Falls Convention and women are struggling till now. In practice Feminist Jurisprudence played important role to realise the rights and place of women in society. It is due to only feminist jurisprudence women fight for their voting right in America. Feminist jurisprudence originated in USA and UK but now a day it is working all over the world and gender issues are taken seriously in whole world. Second wave feminist jurist were mostly radical and produced the strong and conveying slogans e.g. sister hood is powerful' Consciousness rising, 'The personal is political '"The politics of human work 'Pro women line etc. They firmly believed that women could collectively empower themselves. Third wave feminism stated in 1990 and feminist jurists of third wave taken in to consideration age, race, sex and class. Age also plays important role in discrimination. They stated D.I.Y.-do it yourself. Women have to struggle them self for their problem. The objective of the paper is to understand the law and practical impact of feminist Jurisprudence.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between feminist theories and the law, and the way in which developments of the former have affected, and been affected by, the latter. The book takes as its starting point a study of women and culture on an international level, which demonstrates how religious and cultural influences have been fundamental in establishing contemporary legal and social mores. This provides the setting for an investigation into legal and social discrimination and inequality, and how this has been addressed by the emergence of feminism. A number of critiqu

Contents: Preface -- Introduction to the research handbook on feminist jurisprudence / Robin West -- Part I: Feminism and legal theory: varieties of feminist legal theory -- 1. In defense of liberal feminism / Sylvia A. Law -- 2. Catharine A. MacKinnon and Equality theory / Chao-ju Chen -- 3. Relational feminism and law / Robin West -- 4. The limits of equality: vulnerability and inevitable inequality / Martha Albertson Fineman -- 5. Socialist feminist legal theory: a plea / Cynthia Grant Bowman -- 6. Critical race feminism / Dorothy E. Roberts -- 7. Postmodern feminist legal theory / Laura A. Rosenbury -- 8. Feminism, sexuality and the law / Nan D. Hunter -- Part II: Feminist legal theory and criminal law -- 9. Sexual agency and the unfinished work of rape law reform / Deborah Tuerkheimer -- 10. Sexual violence and the law in India / Nivedita Menon -- 11. Violence against women and liberal sexism / Victoria Nourse -- 12. 'Some gentle violence': marital rape immunity as contradiction in criminal law / Ngaire Naffine -- Part III: Feminist legal theory and reproductive rights -- 13. Reproductive rights and justice: a multiple feminist theories account / Lisa C. Ikemoto -- 14. Against Roe exceptionalism: degendering abortion / Noya Rimalt -- Part IV: Feminist legal theory, sex discrimination and sexual harassment -- 15. Sexual harassment law: an evolution in theory, scope and impact / Kimberly A. Yuracko -- 16. A dignitarian feminist jurisprudence with applications to rape, sexual harassment and honor codes / Orit Kamir -- 17. Sex equality, gender injury, Title IX And women's education / Katharine K. Baker -- Part V: Feminist legal theory and constitutional law -- 18. The gendered jurisprudence of the Fourteenth Amendment / Julie A. Nice -- 19. Beyond 'free speech for the white man': feminism and the First Amendment / Mary Anne Franks -- Part VI: Feminist legal theory and private law -- 20. Feminist legal theory and tort law / Martha Chamallas -- 21. Feminism and contract law / Hila Keren -- 22. How feminism remade American Family law (and How it did not) / Susan Frelich Appleton -- 23. Feminism and family leave / Julie C. Suk -- Part VII: Feminist legal theory and international law -- 24. International law and feminism / Adrien K. Wing -- 25. The State's Due diligence obligation / Irem Caglar and Berna Akcali Gur -- Index.

Engagement with "women-in-prison" movies (WIPs), which are a relatively obscure and certainly under-read genre, can provide the impetus for the revision of law through a feminist lens. I do not propose that WIPs reveal anything about the actual conditions of incarcerated women. Clearly, they vary in their cultural verisimilitude. Yet, these fictional stories often leave us feeling unsettled about prisons and about the women who are warehoused within them. Accordingly, rather than measuring the realism of WIPs, I examine the dialogical relationship between these representations of women in prison and the manner in which formalized legal institutions and official legal agents label particular women "criminals." I have found that some WIPs may offer ways to imagine the violence of state and legal practices and the inhumanity of total institutions to suggest broader gender, race, and class injustices that render particular women more vulnerable to criminalization and incarceration. Some WIPs reproduce the gendered operations and assumptions of the criminal law while also challenging its institutions and apparatuses of power. I argue that Caged (1950), in particular, invites viewers to think through contemporary feminist concerns around the criminalization of women. By virtue of its discursive determinations, normative dimensions, and inter-textual references, Caged is feminist jurisprudence.

Pat Carlen, Professor of Criminology at the University of Keele, argues that 'women-wise' penal strategies should be devised to right some of the wrongs presently suffered by women in the criminal justice system.