| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 334 pages) |
| Contents |
Women and the cast of legal persons / Ngaire Naffine -- De-sexing the woman lawyer / Rosemary Hunter -- "Sexing the matrix" : embodiment, disembodiment and the law : towards the re-gendering of legal personality? / Anna Grear -- Vulnerability, equality and the human condition / Martha A. Fineman -- The "gendered company" revisited / Alice Belcher -- The public sex of the judiciary : the appearance of the irrelevant and the invisible / Leslie J. Moran -- Sexuality, gender and social cognition : lesbian and gay identity in judicial decision-making / Todd Brower -- The gendered dock : reflections on the impact of gender stereotyping in the criminal justice system / Judith Rowbotham -- "She never screamed out and complained" : recognising gender in legal and media representations of rape / Kim Stevenson -- Gendering rape : social attitudes towards male and female rape / Phil N.S. Rumney and Natalia Hanley -- When hate is not enough : tackling homophobic violence / Iain McDonald -- The legal construction of domestic violence : "unmasking" a private problem / Mandy Burton -- Criminalization or protection : tensions in the construction of prevention strategies concerning trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation / Anna Carline -- A woman's honour and a nation's shame : "honour killings" in Pakistan / Shilan Shah-Davis -- Supranational criminal prosecution of sexual violence / Anne-Marie de Brouwer -- The strange case of the invisible woman in abortion law reform / Kate Gleeson -- Third-wave feminism, motherhood and the future of feminist legal theory / Bridget J. Crawford -- "Shall I be mother" reproductive autonomy, feminism and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 / Rachel Anne Fenton, D. Jane V. Rees and Sue Heenan -- Motherhood and autonomy in a shared parenting climate / Susan B. Boyd -- A very British compromise : civil partnerships, liberalism by stealth and the fallacies of neo-liberalism / Jeffrey Weeks -- Attitudes to same-sex marriage in South African Muslim communities : an exploratory study / Elsje Bonthuys and Natasha Erlank -- Taking "sex" out of marriage in the EU / Jackie Jones -- From Russia (and elsewhere) with love : mail order brides / Jennifer Marchbank |
| Summary |
Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues - both topical and controversial - raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law, persons and the legal profession, along with the gender bias of legal outcomes, has been a fractious, but fertile, focus of reflection. It has, moreover, been an important site of political struggle. This collection of essays offers an unrivalled examination of its various contemporary dimensions, focusing on: issues of theory and representation; violence, both national and international; reproduction and parenting; and partnership, sexuality, marriage and the family. Gender, Sexualities and Law will be invaluable for all those engaged in research and study of the law (and related fields) as a form of gendered power |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Sex and law.
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Gender identity -- Law and legislation.
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LAW -- Gender & the Law.
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Gender identity -- Law and legislation
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Sex and law
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Jackie M.
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| ISBN |
9780203831427 |
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020383142X |
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9781136829222 |
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1136829229 |
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9781136829239 |
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1136829237 |
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9781136829185 |
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1136829180 |
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9780415628747 |
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0415628741 |
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