Gender The Law category: 211 books
by Martha Nussbaum
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Due donne che si baciano, due uomini che fanno l’amore. Disgusto. Nei confronti delle omosessualità la nostra società ha sempre manifestato un’avversione viscerale, che Martha Nussbaum collega al fastidio provato di fronte alle secrezioni corporee, ai rifiuti organici, alla materia in decomposizione....
by Régionale de Charleroi du Centre d'Action laïque
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Aujourd’hui encore, et partout dans le monde, femmes et hommes ne disposent pas des mêmes droits. Pourtant, de nombreuses avancées ont été faites ces dernières décennies. Où en est-on ? Par qui ces droits sont-ils menacés chaque jour ? Pourquoi ? Est-ce le nouveau visage de la domination masculine...
Gay Priori
A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Libby Adler offers a comprehensive critique of the mainstream LGBT legal agenda in the United States, showing how LGBT equal rights discourse drives legal advocates toward a narrow array of reform objectives that do little to help the lives of the most marginalized members of the LGBT community.
Entextualizing Domestic Violence
Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language ideology is a concept developed in linguistic anthropology to explain the ways in which ideas about the definition and functions of language can become linked with social discourses and identities. In Entextualizing Domestic Violence, Jennifer Andrus demonstrates how language ideologies that...
Sex without Consent
Rape and Sexual Coercion in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to "make a woman of her." An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home. In another case, a college frat party is the scene of the crime. Although these incidents...
Blaming Mothers
American Law and the Risks to Children’s Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers.
Are mothers truly a danger to their children’s health? In 2004, a mentally disabled young woman in Utah was charged by prosecutors with murder after she declined to have a Caesarian section and subsequently...
by Ellen Carol DuBois
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it.
This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman...
Subversive Property
Law and the Production of Spaces of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property. Sarah Keenan demonstrates that new political possibilities for property may be unveiled by thinking about property in terms of space and belonging, rather...
by Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault....
Women, Judging and the Judiciary
From Difference to Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Awarded the 2013 Birks Book Prize by the Society of Legal Scholars, Women, Judging and the Judiciary expertly examines debates about gender representation in the judiciary and the importance of judicial diversity. It offers a fresh look at the role of the (woman) judge and the process of judging and...
by Hilaire Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between feminist theories and the law, and the way in which developments of the former have affected, and been affected by, the latter.
The book takes as its starting point a study of women and culture on an international level, which...
The Transgender Myth
Through the Gender Looking Glass
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Paula had a great childhood believing she was a girl. She dreamed of being a 50's-TV-style mom, just like Donna Reed and June Cleaver. Just like her own mother. When she was enrolled in a school that separated boys and girls, she faced the realization that she was a boy, and soon, the harsh realization;...
Masculinity at Work
Employment Discrimination through a Different Lens
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In late October 2013, the Miami Dolphins’ player Jonathan Martin walked out on his team and checked into a mental health institution. The original story implied that Martin could not take the professional pressure. Within days, the story changed. News sources reported that Martin’s teammates had...
Under the Bus
How Working Women Are Being Run Over
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
“Did you think you knew the facts about women and work? Think again . . . a terrific book . . . utterly gripping.” —Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor
For women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted—and...