Martha Albertson Fineman

Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Director and Founder of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, received her B.A. from Temple University in 1971 and her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1975.  She has received numerous professional honors and awards and held several distinguished professorships. She is currently a Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.  She has authored three books: The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency, (2004); The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies, (1995); and, The Illusion of Equality:  The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform, (1991).