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...DeCrow is a lawyer. Her book is well-researched; in fact, it is a good compilation of those legal inequities which negatively affect women. But it is a poor representation of feminist philosophy. The book is overtly sexist. Men are hate objects...
...book like DeCrow's should pursue two goals: one, to provide information for members of the movement, giving them background for defense and furthering their efforts in finding justice; two, and perhaps more important, to convince those not involved with the movement of its merits. In other words, if those who hold legal or legislative power are made aware of the inherent disparities between men and women in the system, perhaps they will be more willing to help combat those inequities...
...DeCrow acknowledges the fact that men are in control of the entire country--legally, economically, and socially. She also realizes that nearly all potential forces of change in the judicial or legislative system are male. But after establishing those facts she launches into hateful attacks, not against a few men, but against all of them. This kind of blanket condemnation constitutes reverse prejudice. Why should a group of people sensitive to injustice participate in additional injustice...
...PORTRAYING MAN as villain, DeCrow cites several estate law cases in which women have signed business documents and tax forms without knowing what the forms meant. After the deaths of their husbands, several widows find that their funds have been squandered or used illegally. The women are then forced to make restitution. The men in these cases certainly don't seem to be exemplary husbands, but shouldn't the point be that the women themselves should take some sort of financial initiative? It is their consciousness which should be raised in these cases. The women were not coerced into signing...
...DeCrow's view of females as passive objects of injustice is particularly demeaning to women. At one point DeCrow says...