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    Authority and Corporeality: The Conundrum for Women in Law.Margaret Thornton - 1998 - Feminist Legal Studies 6 (2):147-170.
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    Margaret Davies and Ngaire Naffine. Are Persons Property? Legal Debates about Property and Personality [Book Symposium.].Margaret Davies, Ngaire Naffine, Anthony J. Connolly, Margaret Thornton, Rosalind F. Atherton & Peter Drahos - 2003 - Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 28 (2003):189.
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    Hypercompetitiveness or a Balanced Life? Gendered Discourses in the Globalisation of Australian Law Firms.Margaret Thornton - 2014 - Legal Ethics 17 (2):153-176.
    Although women comprise almost 50 per cent of the practising legal profession in Australia and elsewhere, numerosity is insufficient to overcome the 'otherness' of the feminine in corporate law firms. Despite measures to recognise the ethic of a balanced life for those with caring responsibilities, these initiatives are undermined by the contemporary imperative in favour of competition. This article argues that there is a hypermasculinist sub-text invoked by the media reporting of a flurry of mergers between super-élite London-based global law (...)
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    ‘Post-Feminism’ in the Legal Academy?Margaret Thornton - 2010 - Feminist Review 95 (1):92-98.
    Against the background of the political swing from social liberalism to neo-liberalism in Australia, this paper considers the discomfiting relationship between feminism and the legal academy over the last three decades. It briefly traces the trajectory of the liaison, the course of the brief affair, the parting of the ways and the cold shoulder. In considering the reasons for the retreat from feminism, it is suggested that it has been engineered by neo-liberalism through the market's deployment of third-wave feminism, particularly (...)
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