Gender The Law category: 211 books
by Margaret Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory – what is law? However, instead of attempting to define and limit law, the aim of the book is to unlimit law, to take the idea of law beyond its conventionally accepted boundaries into the material and plural domains of...
Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights
Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting...
Children and the Law
An Interdisciplinary Approach with Cases, Materials and Comments
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The study and practice of juvenile law is inherently interdisciplinary--a successful practitioner must understand not only the legal implications in the field, but also have a solid grounding in child psychology, child development, neuroscience, sociology, criminology, and social work. The best child-advocates...
by Vanessa Baird
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender—varies significantly in different parts of the world. In some countries, equal rights have been achieved and progress is being made against discrimination; in others, being gay still incurs the death penalty.This...
Presumed Incompetent
The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as...
Women, Business and the Law 2016
Getting to Equal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In a changing world, how can we be sure that women as well as men entrepreneurs and workers obtain the benefit from these changes? Ensuring that women have the same legal opportunities as men is one part of the picture. By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, Women, Business and...
Rudiments of International Humanitarian Law
By Henrietta Newton Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The book 'Rudiments of Humanitarian Law', is an easy to read edition. The basics enumerated in the book can be easily assimilated and digested by students of International Humanitarian Law or even general readers of the theme providing them a common insight on the subject. Battles and Wars,are characterized...
Anarchism & Sexuality
Ethics, Relationships and Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality. Both in style and in content, it is conceived as a book that aims to question, subvert and overflow authoritarian...
Erotic Justice
Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The essays in Erotic Justice address the ways in which law has been implicated in contemporary debates dealing with sexuality, culture and `different' subjects - including women, sexual minorities, Muslims and the transnational migrant. Law is analyzed as a discursive terrain, where these different...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal...
Women With Disabilities
Found Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women and disability. This innovative book was written by women with disabilities and women professionals who work with persons with disabilities. Women With Disabilities covers many concerns about life with...
Her Body, Our Laws
On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
With stories from the front lines, a legal scholar journeys through distinct legal climates to understand precisely why and how the war over abortion is being fought.
Drawing on her years of research in El Salvador—one of the few countries to ban abortion without exception—legal scholar...
by Stanford Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
A leading law journal features a digital edition as part of its worldwide distribution, using quality ebook formatting and active links. The March 2012 issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the...
Australian Feminist Judgments
Righting and Rewriting Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases. By re-imagining original legal decisions through a feminist lens, the collection explores the possibilities, limits and implications of feminist...