Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: I Liberalism and Marxism

As seen in Chapter 5, liberalism has long been the dominant political ethos in Western democratic society and hence in law. The key concepts of liberal thought are rationality, individuality, equality, liberty from interference from others or the State unless justified, the availability of legal rights, and the protection of the private sphere of life which is conventionally deemed to be ‘not the State’s interest’. The powers of the State must thus be constrained under the rule of law.