Gender The Law category: 211 books
Nepal Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
Gender Results Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Women in Nepal have long experienced poverty, social exclusion, and marginalization because of their gender, especially among ethnic minorities and low-caste groups. Between 2002 and 2013, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Nepal developed and implemented the Gender Equality and Empowerment...
Intersexuality and the Law
Why Sex Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Bullough Award presented by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
The term “intersex” evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex...
Riding the Black Ram
Law, Literature, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to demonstrate...
Enslaved Daughters
Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven...
Islam and Women's Income
Dowry and Law in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. It explores the role of Islam in society and politics generally, and its influence on gender equality in particular. The work focuses on the situation of married women....
Gender, Psychology, and Justice
The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-being of women and girls in the justice system.
Women and girls’ contact with the justice system is often influenced by gender-related assumptions and stereotypes. The justice...
Gender and Transitional Justice
The Women of East Timor
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The leading articles on gender and justice within Anglo-American legal theory are assembled in this volume. The essays are drawn primarily from the writings of lawyers working in the common law tradition and they mainly examine the justice of legal institutions. Due to the close kinship between political...
Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Mitigation Activities
Guidelines for Policy Makers and Proposal Developers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Actively engaging women in climate mitigation activities can yield multiple benefits, including improved jobs, better livelihoods, and more equitable revenue flows. Efforts are moving forward to design climate funding mechanisms to help capture these benefits, but policy makers and other stakeholders...
Violence Against Women in Legally Plural settings
Experiences and Lessons from the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book addresses a growing area of concern for scholars and development practitioners: discriminatory gender norms in legally plural settings. Focusing specifically on indigenous women, this book analyses how they, often in alliance with supporters and allies, have sought to improve their access...
The Life and Death of Latisha King
A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
What can the killing of a transgender teen teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?
The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom...
by New England Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
The New England Law Review's third issue of Volume 50 (Spr. 2016) features a thoughtful Symposium on the legacy, scholarship, and impact of the late Mary Joe Frug. Contributors are Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law, Professors Gerald Frug and Joseph William Singer of Harvard Law, Prof. Laura Underkuffler...
Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India
Law, Labour and Culture in Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant...
'Innocent Women and Children'
Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict...