Gender & the Law

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...

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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...

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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

Feminist critique has made a significant impact both in terms of informing our theoretical approach to law and politics as social phenomena, and in terms of encouraging the development of increased opportunities and protection for individual women...

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...

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An innovative collaboration between academics, practitioners, activists and artists, this timely and provocative book rewrites 16 significant Scots law cases, spanning a range of substantive topics, from a feminist perspective. Exposing power, politics...

Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform is the first generalist text to tackle the intersection of law and gender in this jurisdiction for over two decades. As such, it could hardly have come at a more opportune moment. The topic of law and...

This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge. Feminist judging is an emerging critical legal approach that works within the confines of common law legal method to challenge the myth of...

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...

In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law. The lives and careers of women in legal practice and the judiciary have been extensively documented and critiqued, but the central...

The adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security in October 2000 marked the beginning of a global agenda on women in armed conflicts and post-conflict transition. Women, Peace and Security: Repositioning gender in peace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566494083Author Cathy CambronFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers LLCPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 152g

This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world. Contributors based in eight different countries examine the profound effects that gender norms and practices have had in shaping tax law and policy, and how taxation in turn...

Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. In 1917, the...

The controversial topic of sexual harassment in the United States is explored in this unique collection of over 90 documents. The political and social aspects of the concept of sexual harassment are examined through such documents as legal cases that...

Women's rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision...

Explaining and Understanding Adjudication is the first book that attempts to analyse and define the methodology and values of contemporary accounts of adjudication, which can be divided into orthodox philosophies on the one hand and heretical accounts on...

Containing contributions by some of the best known researchers in the field, this volume considers the intersection between the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), a relatively new mode of policy-making, and gender equality, a long-standing area of EU...

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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...

A woman both in the eye of law and the society is not merely a person either in the gender or the existence. She has an inherent personality since birth called 'womanhood'. Unfortunately, a woman, in our country, belongs to a class or group of society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649199867Author Dr Noorjehan Safia NiazFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384281137Author Windows a Feminist Research CenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Lies and Big FeetPublisher Lies and Big FeetWeight(grams) 100g

In 1929, the Privy Council of Canada declared that women were "persons" under the British North America Act. Seventy years later, a similar move is afoot to establish 'constitutional personhood' for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and...

Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs. What has changed is the way that they talk about these subjects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610277969Author Robert SauteFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 152g