Ronald Reagan, the Modern Right, and…the Rise of the Fem-Crits

Paul Baumgardner
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Paul Baumgardner: Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Laws, 2019, vol. 8, issue 4, 1-10

Abstract: Activists and academics are returning to the 1980s for clues and context concerning the modern Right in the United States, oftentimes with the hope of deriving insights that can be wielded against the legal agenda of the Trump administration. This is a worthwhile historical endeavor, which must not ignore the essential position of feminist legal theorists. This article reveals the foundational role of feminist critical legal scholars, or “Fem-Crits”, to the progressive resistance against conservative legal thought during the 1980s. By highlighting the work of Fem-Crits in the academy and within the critical legal studies movement, this article identifies the Fem-Crits as a valuable source of movement inspiration and theoretical influence for leftist law professors, lawyers, and activists in the twenty-first century.

Keywords: Fem-Crits; critical legal studies; Reagan Revolution; law schools; modern conservatism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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