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Valerie Kerruish, "Persons and Available Identities: Gender in
Hegel's Philosophy of Law", Law and Critique Vol.VII no.2 [1996],
153-172: The paper begins from three images of women in Hegel's philosophy
of law. The first two images occur within Hegel's phenomenology of the emergence
of the concept of legal personality. The third is located in his logical
(re)construction of the idea of right and is a gender identity of women
in modernity. It is argued that these representations of women and men are
integral to Hegel's legal and ethical theory. They have continuing relevance
as identities occupying a logical space between the fully determined particularity
of the person and fully abstract universality of the legal person. While
the content of such identities changes, their form and function within the
closed dialectic of normative thought continues to be a significant aspect
of the legal reproduction of social relations.
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