Mary Lyndon Shanley Explained

Mary Lyndon Shanley
Workplaces:	Vassar College
Alma Mater:	Harvard University
Main Interests:	Feminist legal scholar

Mary Lyndon Shanley (born 1944)^[1] is a feminist legal scholar specializing in issues of the American family and reproductive technologies. Her book Just Marriage weighed into the controversy around gay marriage with a historical and political science perspective.^[2] She has written on the idea of the "ethic of care" in US political science.^[3]

Education

Shanley received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Masters and Doctoral degrees in political science from Harvard University.

Career

She is the Margaret Stiles Halleck Professor of Political Science at Vassar College and lives in Poughkeepsie, NY where she also teaches a writing course to women in the local jail.^[4]

Books

• Book: Shanley . Mary Lyndon . Feminism, marriage and the law in Victorian England . Princeton University Press . Princeton . 1989 . 9780691078199 .
• Book: Shanley . Mary Lyndon . Pateman . Carole . Carole Pateman . Feminist interpretations and political theory . Pennsylvania State University Press . University Park . 1991 . 9780271007427 .
• Book: Shanley . Mary Lyndon . Making babies, making families: What matters most in an age of reproductive technologies, surrogacy, adoption, and same-sex and unwed parents . registration . Beacon . 2001 .
• Book: Shanley . Mary Lyndon . Young . Iris Marion . Neill . Daniel . Iris Marion Young . Illusion of consent engaging with Carole Pateman . Pennsylvania State University Press . University Park, Pennsylvania . 2008 . 9780271035918 .
• Book: Shanley . Mary Lyndon . Cohen . Joshua . Chasman . Deborah . Joshua Cohen (philosopher) . Just marriage . registration . Oxford University Press . Oxford UK New York . 2004 . 9780195176261 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shanley, Mary Lyndon, 1944- . Library of Congress . 23 March 2015 .
2. News: Shanley . Mary Lyndon . Just marriage . Boston Review . Boston Review . 1 June 2003 .
3. Shanley . Mary Lyndon . Public policy and the ethics of care . . 16 . 3 . 157–160 . 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb00932.x . August 2001 . 144765779 .
4. Web site: Faculty: Mary L. Shanley . Political Science Department, Vassar College . 23 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150315091803/http://politicalscience.vassar.edu/bios/shanley.html . 15 March 2015 .