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]

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

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]

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