Gender The Law category: 211 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors from...
Clinical Aspects of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination
Psychological Consequences and Treatment Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2004
This book addresses the psychological impact of sexual harassment and gender discrimination from both a clinical and theoretical perspective, whereas previous literature on the topic has emphasized legal and employment consequences. To start, Lenhart provides a comprehensive summary and integration...
Lean Out
How to dismantle the corporate barriers that hold women back
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Why women still fall off the corporate ladder
Despite all the talk of diversity and empowerment, women are still falling off corporate ladders like never before. Although women have been graduating in equal numbers to men for almost 40 years, they remain absent in the highest levels in public...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory...
Unbending Gender
Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily...
Law, Gender, and Injustice
A Legal History of U.S. Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
In this widely acclaimed landmark study, Joan Hoff illustrates how women remain second- class citizens under the current legal system and questions whether the continued pursuit of equality based on a one-size-fits-all vision of traditional individual rights is really what will most improve conditions...
by Susan Bisom-Rapp, Malcolm Sargeant
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for a new holistic approach. Each stage of the working life cycle for women is...
Out and About
The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession is a collaboration between the American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ("SOGI") and the National LGBT Bar Association ("LGBT Bar"). Both SOGI and the LGBT went to great lengths to identify...
Gender Myths v. Working Realities
Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Both the courts and the public seem confused about sexual harassment—what it is, how it functions, and what sorts of behaviors are actionable in court. Theresa M. Beiner contrasts perspectives from social scientists on the realities of workplace sexual harassment with the current legal standard....
Contesting Femicide
Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law...
Normal Life
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Revised and Expanded Edition
Wait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee...
Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights
Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Ronli Sifris challenges the view that torture only takes place within...
by Karmanye Thadani
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Co-authored by three lawyers/law students, namely KARMANYE THADANI, DEVADITYA CHAKRAVARTI and SHWETA SHARMA, and with a foreword by eminent Indian sports law luminary JUSTICE MUKUL MUDGAL, this is a short and inexpensive (NOT EXPENSIVE) book dealing with gender discrimination in the field of sport...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security...