Gender The Law category: 211 books
Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor
Sex Work and the Law in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might...
by Angela D. Ledford
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
There has been much important work done in the past two decades in America on issues of under representation based on social differences such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and age. While this scholarship has examined the ways in which women and racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities...
Pistols and Petticoats
175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years
In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon, and kept her badge stuffed in her pocketbook. She...
by Jessica Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of adult female victims for sexual exploitation, and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatment of trafficking victims.
Jessica...
Tainted Witness
Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony...
by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
How can governments ensure that women have the same employment and entrepreneurship opportunities as men? One important step is to level the legal playing field so that the rules for operating in the worlds of work and business apply equally regardless of gender. Women, Business and the Law 2018,...
Impersonations
Troubling the Person in Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of...
Legal Feminism
Activism, Lawyering, and Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2006
In the late 1970s, feminist scholars and activists joined together to build a movement aimed at bringing feminist theory and experiences to the practice and teaching of American law. Since then, the feminist jurisprudence movement has taken root, with courts and legislatures addressing matters of...
(Un)thinking Citizenship
Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of...
Screw Consent
A Better Politics of Sexual Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
When we talk about sex—whether great, good, bad, or unlawful—we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionable youth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy?
What...
License to Wed
What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
A critical reader of the history of marriage understands that it is an institution that has always been in flux. It is also a decidedly complicated one, existing simultaneously in the realms of religion, law, and emotion. And yet recent years have seen dramatic and heavily waged battles over the proposition...
by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The miniscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon’s collected work on gender inequality—including new pieces—argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.
No Seat at the Table
How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Women are completing MBA and Law degrees in record high numbers, but their struggle to attain director positions in corporate America continues. Although explanations for this disconnect abound, neither career counselors nor scholars have paid enough attention to the role that corporate governance...
Fuck Porn!
Wider die Pornografisierung des Alltags
Language: German
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Wann haben wir, der Mainstream, die Frauen, eigentlich aufgehört uns aufzuregen? Über nackte Kalendermädels, Eva Herman und die Benachteiligung von Frauen in der Arbeitswelt? Wann haben wir, die Problembewussten, resigniert vor der Pornografisierung unseres Alltags? Und: Soll das jetzt für immer...