Gender The Law category: 211 books
Human Rights Vs. Gay Rights
Which Should We Promote?
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Indeed we have a responsibility to educate others on their human rights and freedoms as well as respect them. We can only do this when we first educate ourselves on the subject so we can teach others. In this book, the author does a fine job by helping us learn the thirty human rights of all mankind...
by Christine Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
In 1910 in Bendigo, three children were found dead in their home, brutally murdered with an axe and a knife.
Their mother, Camellia McCluskey, was a de facto wife at a time when such a position was not socially acceptable. Her partner, George, was considerably older than her. The two lived together...
Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility. Feminist legal theorists have long problematized divisions between the private and the political, an issue with growing importance...
The Case for Gay Rights
From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion. In response, David Richards, a widely respected legal scholar and long-time champion of gay rights, reflects upon the constitutional and...
Everyday Injustice
Latino Professionals and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
As members of the fastest-growing demographic group in America, Latinos are increasingly represented in the professional class, but they continue to face significant racism. Everyday Injustice introduces readers to the challenges facing Latino professionals today. Examining the experiences of many...
Equality under the Constitution
Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights....
Drugs, Women, and Justice
Roles of the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Affected Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A unique interdisciplinary exploration of a pressing social issue
The numbers of women offenders involved in the correctional system are quickly growing. Drugs, Women, and Justice: Roles of the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Affected Women gathers a distinguished group of researchers and...
Chronic Youth
Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,
the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink
of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site of
pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth
traces...
Taking the Rap
Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“Ann Hansen’s memoir combines a riveting story with a brilliant exposé of the inner workings of the prison industrial complex. Charged with empathy, courage, and an anarchist passion for justice, Taking the Rap, is a must-read for scholars, activists, and troublemakers.”
— Allan Antliff,...
Summary of Missoula
by Jon Krakauer | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Summary of Missoula by Jon Krakauer | Includes Analysis Preview: Missoula by Jon Krakauer is a close examination of the cause and effect of a series of alleged sexual assaults in a Montana college town. Missoula is the second largest city in Montana, and the Missoula-based...
by Prof. Ian Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern...
by Diana Tietjens Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Victim's Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights takes on a set of questions suggested by the worldwide persistence of human rights abuse and the prevalence of victims' stories in human rights campaigns, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals: What conceptions of victims are presumed...
The Politics of Pregnancy
Policy Dilemmas in the Maternal-Fetal Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Here is a comprehensive overview and analysis of issues concerning the maternal-fetal relationship, from abortion to surrogate motherhood. Unlike many books which cover reproductive issues in general, this book focuses in-depth on one aspect of reproduction--the maternal-fetal relationship--to give...
Women and the Family
Two Decades of Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Despite the pervasive changes that have taken place in women’s lives in the past twenty-five years--increased participation in the labor force, the attainment of higher levels of education, and higher salaries--comparable changes in the division of family labor and in the roles of men have lagged...