Drucilla Cornell | Author

About the Author

Drucilla Cornell is National Research Foundation Professor in Customary Law, Indigenous Ideals and the Dignity Jurisprudence at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and Professor of Political Science, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. The most recent of her show more many books are Between Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity, Defending Ideals: War, Democracy, and Political Struggles, and Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory. show less

Includes the names: D. Cornell, Drucil Cornell, Drucill Cornell, Drucilla L. Cornell

Works by Drucilla Cornell

Feminism as Critique: Essays on the Politics of Gender in Late-Capitalist Societies (1987) — Editor — 73 copies

Feminism and Pornography (2000) — Editor — 60 copies

The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography, and Sexual Harassment (1995) 51 copies

Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (1992) — Editor — 50 copies

At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex, and Equality (1998) 49 copies

The Philosophy of the Limit (1992) 42 copies

Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law (1991) 34 copies

Hegel and Legal Theory (1991) — Editor — 21 copies

Transformations: Recollective Imagination and Sexual Difference (1993) — Editor — 17 copies

Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory (2007) 13 copies

The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man (2016) 11 copies

Between Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity (2002) 11 copies

Defending Ideals: War, Democracy, and Political Struggles (2004) 8 copies

Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory (2010) 8 copies

Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity (2009) 7 copies

Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights (2000) 6 copies

The Mandate of Dignity: Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice (2016) 6 copies

Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation (2014) 4 copies

uBuntu and the Law: African Ideals and Post Apartheid Jurisprudence (2012) 4 copies

The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Volumes I and II: Cases and Materials (2013) 3 copies

Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa: From Revolutionary Activist to Constitutional Court Judge (2014) 2 copies

Ethical Feminism (2002) 1 copy

Time, Deconstruction, and the Challenge to Legal Positivism: The Call for Judicial Responsibility 1 copy

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Associated Works

Feminists Theorize the Political (1992) — Contributor — 188 copies

Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case (1997) — Contributor — 70 copies

What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015) — Afterword — 35 copies

Continental Feminism Reader (2003) 18 copies

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Other names: CORNELL, Drucilla
Birthdate: 1950-06-16
Date of death: 2022-12-12
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Education: U.C.L.A. Law School (J.D.|1981)
Antioch College (B.A.|1978|Mathematics and Philosophy)
Occupations: Professor
Philosopher
Feminist Theorist
Union Organizer
Organizations: Rutgers University
University of Pretoria

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Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange… by Seyla Benhabib

Interesting structure where four theorists give papers on the overlap between feminism and postmodernism, then respond to one another through criticism and adaptation of theories. Some excellent presentation on the difficulties of retaining a 'female' perspective in a society where identity is individualistic; competing opinions from psychology (Cornell) to philosophy (Butler) to social theory (Benhabib) that come together in the chapters of criticism. Difficult to read (some jargon, and some heavy theory) but worth the time.… (more)

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