| Description |
xxiv, 304 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Socio-legal series |
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Socio-legal series.
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| Contents |
1. Body Politics and Rights / Elizabeth Kingdom -- 2. They Gag Women, Don't They? / Jo Bridgeman -- 3. The Law's Engagement With Pregnancy / Anne Morris and Susan Nott -- 4. Making "social judgments that go beyond the purely medical": The Reproductive Revolution and Access to Fertility Treatment Services /Susan Millns -- 5. The Law of Abortion and the Politics of Medicalisation / Sally Sheldon -- 6. Sterilising the Woman with Learning Difficulties - In Her Best Interests? / Kirsty Keywood -- 7. Female Circumcision: Mutilation or Modification? / Lois S. Bibbings -- 8. Legal Responses to Battered Women Who Kill / Marie Fox -- 9. Working Together - An Analysis of Collaborative Inter-Agency Responses to "The Problem of Domestic Violence" / Christina M. Lyon --10. Images of Women: Sentencing in Sexual Assault Cases in Scotland / Susan R. Moody -- 11. International Human Rights and Body Politics / Fiona Beveridge and Siobhan Mullally |
| Analysis |
Great Britain |
| Notes |
"Socio-legal studies series"--Jkt |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [273]-292 |
| Subject |
Sex and law.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Bridgeman, Jo.
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Millns, Susan.
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| LC no. |
95000102 |
| ISBN |
1855215152 |
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