Gender The Law category: 211 books
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Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
The United States, and the West in general, has always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either gay or straight, male or female, white or not, disabled or not.
In recent years, however, America seems increasingly aware of those who defy such easy categorization. Yet, rather than being...
Feminist Constitutionalism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Constitutionalism affirms the idea that democracy should not lead to the violation of human rights or the oppression of minorities. This book aims to explore the relationship between constitutional law and feminism. The contributors offer a spectrum of approaches and the analysis is set across a wide...
The Legal English Course Book Volume One
Professional Legal English and Practical Skills (PLEPS Examination)
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
The publisher of the successful practical handbook The Legal English Manual (ISBN 978-3-9524737-4-0, www.legalenglishexperts.com) is back with two new course books, which Lawbility has developed and applied in their Professional Legal English & Practical Skills Training since 2010: The Legal English...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Homosexuality and the European Court of Human Rights is the first book-length study of the Court’s jurisprudence in respect of sexual orientation. It offers a socio-legal analysis of the substantial number of decisions and judgments of the Strasbourg organs on the wide range of complaints brought...
Feminist Judgments
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
While feminist legal scholarship has thrived within universities and in some sectors of legal practice, it has yet to have much impact within the judiciary or on judicial thinking. Thus, while feminist legal scholarship has generated comprehensive critiques of existing legal doctrine, there has been...
Regulating the International Movement of Women
From Protection to Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Great Wall of Popat
A Journal of a Lesbian’S Adventures Getting Through Police Academy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
At a time when most women my age are planning for retirement and maybe taking up hobbies that are a little less aggressive, I decided to go into law enforcement. Okay . . . . so doing what is expected of me is not my pattern of life. I enjoy adventures and the more impossible that they seem, the harder...
Votes and More for Women
Suffrage and After in Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This fascinating book demonstrates the diversity of Connecticut’s women’s feminist activities in pre- and post-suffrage eras and refutes the notion that feminist activism died out with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The scale of maternal mortality and morbidity today is staggering. This book focuses on a vital part of a human rights response to maternal mortality, viz. accountability. Accountability encompasses monitoring, review and redress at the local, national and international levels. The book's context...
by Okey Eni
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Underaged female marriage is rampart in Africa, some part of Asia, and in Middle East. This book examines the occurance of child marriage in Africa, with Nigeria as the focal point. It begins with true live stories of underaged female marriages in Nigeria, as case studies. Then delves into our laws...
by Suzann Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The Jamaican Lottery Scam has existed for many years. And continues to exist. This is a short explanation of how it works and in some respects, why it works.
by Noah Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
A guidebook you can use as a tool for learning a better awareness of Bankruptcy. The different chapters of Bankruptcy, history of bankruptcy, and bankruptcy today. Requirements about bankruptcy, as well as personal stories. Learn the history of bankruptcy, the factors of debt relief, and the different...
Leaving Women Behind
Modern Families, Outdated Laws
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Paternalistic federal laws and regulations thwart initiatives to grant women the same economic liberties as men. Why have federal institutions overseeing employment, employee benefits, childcare, taxation, health care, education, retirement, and social security adopted such a warped and antiquated...
After Roe
The Lost History of the Abortion Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the decade after the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion, advocates on both sides sought common ground. But as pro-abortion and anti-abortion positions hardened over time into pro-choice and pro-life, the myth was born that Roe v. Wade was a ruling on a woman’s right to choose. Mary Ziegler’s account offers a corrective.