Gender The Law category: 211 books
Thriving in an All-Boys Club
Female Police and Their Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In 1845 women entered the career of policing, and ever since it’s been an evolving history for them. There are countless stories of women shaping this career, adding particular gifts and abilities to the profession. There are, also, countless stories of their struggles to fit in and survive in this...
The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women
From Obstacles to Options
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
The Supreme Court is one of the most traditional institutions in America that has been an exclusively male domain for almost two hundred years. From 1981 to 2010, four women were appointed to the Supreme Court for the first time in U.S. history. The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women: From Obstacles...
Women's Social and Legal Issues in African Current Affairs
Lifting the Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume explores the difficulties that beset African women and inhibit them from excelling in many walks of life in the twenty-first century. Asymmetrical relations in society position women in subjugated and marginalized roles. This is caused by customary practices that have left women in vulnerable...
Masculinities and the Law
A Multidimensional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant struggle with other men to prove their masculinity. Masculinities and the Law develops a multidimensional approach. It sees categories of identity—including various forms...
Women, Madness and the Law
A Feminist Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This issue of the Yale Law Journal include these contents:
-- Essay, "Fiduciary Political Theory: A Critique," by Ethan J. Leib and Stephen R. Galoob
-- Note, "The Modification of Decrees in the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court," by James G. Mandilk
In...
Up Against a Wall
Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses...
by Deborah Lockton, Richard Ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
First published in 1997, this book marks a culmination of a three year research programme focused upon the incidence of domestic violence in Leicester. The study examined the levels of violence, the details of applicants and respondents and the nature of complaints, as well as the policies applied...
After Legal Equality
Family, Sex, Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line. Once judgment is granted or a law is passed, coalitions disband and life goes on in a new state of equality. Policy makers too may assume that a troublesome file is now closed. This collection arises from the urgent sense that...
Queering Urban Justice
Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People...
About Abortion
Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
New medical technologies, women’s willingness to talk online and off, and tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent, Carol Sanger writes, women’s decisions about whether to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant personal choices.
Islamic Feminisms
Rights and Interpretations Across Generations in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book explores the contentious topic of women’s rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian women’s movement from 1906 to the present. The work contextualizes the authorial self through the use of personal narrative and interviews. A new critique of Islamic...
Nation and Family
Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization,...
by Ronagh McQuigg
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 April 2011. The Convention entered into force on 1 August 2014 and has currently been ratified by...