Gender & the Law

Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions with...

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

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273145Author Alison Dundes RentelnFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890117320Author Julie a CalligaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Demery PublishingPublisher Demery PublishingWeight(grams) 82g

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 9781626016712Author Riki WilchinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Riverdale Avenue BooksPublisher Riverdale Avenue BooksWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393499011Author Kush KalraFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Vij Books IndiaPublisher Vij Books IndiaWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change beyond litigation in the courts. Just as racism is embedded in the legal system, so is misogyny—even after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273299Author Alison Dundes RentelnFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393499028Author Kush KalraFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Vij Books IndiaPublisher Vij Books IndiaWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942661061Author Sheila MengertFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Finn Hill PublishingPublisher Finn Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610270991Author Deborah L RhodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States. Part One, which covers the years from the post-Civil War period to the 1980s, is a history of state efforts to discipline and...

In 1845 women entered the career of policing, and ever since it's been an evolving history for them. There are countless stories of women shaping this career, adding particular gifts and abilities to the profession. There are, also, countless stories of...

This interdisciplinary book constitutes the first major and comparative study of resilience focused on victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). Locating resilience in the relationships and interactions between individuals and their...

This is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States. Abortion, sexual harrassment, pornography, surrogate motherhood, rape, custody rights - the legal and social questions surrounding these issues are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515094092Author Karin GottschalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

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...

Winner, 2021-2022 AES Senior Book Prize, awarded by the American Ethnological Society Honorable Mention, Senior Book Prize of the Association for Feminist Anthropology Uncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and...

A transformative progressive politics requires the state's reimagining. But how should the state be reimagined, and what can invigorate this process? In Feeling Like a State, Davina Cooper explores the unexpected contribution a legal drama of withdrawal...

Feminist Legal Theory is just over a decade old in the United States and is even younger in most other countries. Here, Francis Olsen presents the best articles from within this burgeoning field. Drawing on literature which is extremely rich and...