Gender & the Law

The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for...

It hurts to be beautiful has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it...

Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean...

Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well...

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women's health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women. This collection asks: 'What is an effective law and what influences law's...

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book...

The use of a rape victim's sexual history as evidence attracted intense public attention after the acquittal of footballer Ched Evans in 2017. Set within the context of a criminal justice system widely perceived to be failing rape victims, the use of...

Sex work is often called the oldest profession in the world. It manifests itself in a plethora of forms. A move to private locations is now taking place: contacts are established via the Internet and meetings take place at appointed places. This makes it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889261636Author Micha Star LibertyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Manuscripts LLCPublisher Manuscripts LLCWeight(grams) 449g

This timely book analyzes recent developments and key questions related to violence against women under European human rights law, including the European Convention of Human Rights, the European Social Charter and EU Law instruments. It examines...

Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue? High-profile sexual harassment suits, such as that of Paula Jones against President Clinton, are often life-changing events, with all parties coming away with careers,...

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.In recent years, ideological shifts and real managerial constraints have forced states everywhere to rely on private resources to solve...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841742564Author Ann StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 321gDimensions(mm)...

This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases. By re-imagining original legal decisions through a feminist lens, the collection explores the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782581516675Author Cameron ComptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ali Shah PublisherPublisher Ali Shah PublisherWeight(grams) 594g

This book explores and challenges common assumptions about gender, conflict, and post-conflict situations. It critically examines the gendered aspects of international and transitional justice processes by subverting traditional understandings of how...

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship. The last ten years have witnessed an international reckoning on sexual violence, typified in the mainstream imagination by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360148331Author Sagar DesaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint SelfPublisher SelfWeight(grams) 118g

This framework outlines how to integrate gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) into ADB's operations in South Asia to help close the gender gap, combat exclusion, and bolster equitable economic growth.It highlights the experience of women and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889261629Author Micha Star LibertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Manuscripts LLCPublisher Manuscripts LLCWeight(grams) 318g

Despite the advent of new sexual knowledges,new perspectives, new experiences even, we do not routinely or habitually reflect on the interface of social and legal dimensions of sexuality. Rather, the law is periodically reviewed in response to some...

Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218361693Author Erin GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Erin GordonPublisher Erin GordonWeight(grams) 331g

Women lawyers,less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key questions...

This book is a socio-legal interdisciplinary study on gender and diversity in multicultural societies of Europe. It uses secondary data to discuss the broad experiences of migrant single mothers/women in Europe. Second, it includes narratives of...

This title was first published in 2002. Gender has become a culturally laden signifier. Sometimes used to differentiate the social from the biological, gender itself has become gendered. In common parlance gender issues often slide inexorably into...

Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as...

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of 'self-declaration' of legal gender status. Existing doctrinal and comparative analyses have tended to come out strongly in favour of, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532359958Author Paula Mirare OverbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Mirare PublishingPublisher Mirare PublishingWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885590389Author United Kingdom LegislationFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Grangis LLCPublisher Grangis LLCWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760465490Author Margaret ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Anu PressPublisher Anu PressWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869036575Author Serrena AmandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Indie PublisherPublisher Indie PublisherWeight(grams) 313g

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is a treaty for all girls and women in this world. After 30 years it is still valid and necessary both in developed and in developing States. This image is clearly conveyed by...

Originally published in 1985 Gender, Sex and the Law explores the way in which the law, at its various levels of jurisdiction, justifies its discrimination against women in terms of the physiological differences between the sexes. The book examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9785382218618Author Titilola Vivour-AdeniyiFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Quramo PublishingPublisher Quramo PublishingWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779205780Author Slyvia Chirawu -MugombaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint NazPublisher NazWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916127760Author Stephen StaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lovebird Publishing (Physical Products)Publisher Lovebird Publishing (Physical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922449559Author Michael QuinlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty...