IP law structures a gender-based environment just for men excluding women
Debora Halbert 2006, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. She is the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Feminist Interpretations of Intellectual Property, https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1264&context=jgspl
political economy of intellectual property that has historically benefited men more than women. Furthermore, the value of a feminist analysis show that it can be 8. ; intellectual property scholars never, if ever, appeals to feminist interpretations to better understand the law.10 However, while the words copyright and patent do not appear in the feminist literature, the ideas underlying these legal regimes are evident when feminists talk about the production of culture as male dominated, about how women have been excluded from creative work or have had their work appropriated by men, and about a feminist epistemology.11 Thus, by investigating the ways
feminists theorize about the construction of knowledge, new insights into how ip law has been developed upon gendered assumptions society considers the feminine inferior to the masculine. Sex dualism stops women from participating in “ip law culture,” which is masculine space. Culture is a masculine construction for second wave feminists.17 According to Firestone, the role women play, from a masculine perspective, is at best indirect. Women “contribute” to culture by acting as the “raw fuel for the culture machine” by providing emotional support or inspiration for the cultural creation of men.