Feministinė jurisprudencija ir liberaliosios valstybės kritika
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Asmuo; Catharine Alice MacKinnon; Diskriminacija; Feminizmas; Gilligan, Carol; Liberalioji demokratija; Liberalusis feminizmas; Lygybė; Lytis; Radikalioji jurisprudencija; Socialinė lygybė; Catharine Alice MacKinnon; Discrimination; Equality; Feminism; Gilligan, Carol; Liberal democracy; Liberal feminism; Person; Radical jurisprudence; Sex; Social equality.
ENThe aim of the essay is to present an issue of feminist jurisprudence to the Lithuanian reader. The issue is actualised within the context of today's innovations on the Lithuanian legal screen, specifically, - the recently passed Law of Equal Opportunities. This law is the first major achievement of the efforts of Lithuanian women's movement and Women's Parliamentarian Group. The hypothesis has been raised by the author of the essay that the ideology of equal opportunities has become a political expression of Lithuanian feminism, now buttressed by state policies. What are the advantages or disadvantages of such an arrangement of things? Is the policy of equal opportunities sufficient to eliminate sex discrimination in (our) society? Where are its limitations and what are the major obstacles to sex equality? The answers to these and other mounting questions are sought after within the context of debates going on in feminist jurisprudence. The debates are presented as a conflict of „liberal“ and „radical“ schools of thought.The author utilised the arguments of radical feminist thinkers, such as Catharine MacKinnon and others, in an effort to construct an explanation to assumed inadequacy of law as a major „medication“ to sex inequality in society. The distinction has been drawn between the law which promises gender equity, and sociocultural environment where relationships between genders and gender roles are socialised, which remains unaffected by law. The conclusion has been drawn that precisely this so called „structural“ (sociocultural) factor enables and perpetuates gender inequality. Within the context of this conclusion the principles on which the liberal law and order are erected, are criticized. [From the publication]
