Law and society, gender issues

Makes sense of truthmaking in law, media, politics, and courts of popular opinion including on transgender controversies and cancel culture.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years.

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

Set in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation.

Considers whether and how constitutions have affirmed women''s equal citizenship status, from the birth of constitutionalism to the present.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution.

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality.

'The Constitution [of India] has within it the ability to produce social catharsis.

This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons.

First published in 1983, Prejudice and Pride chronicles legal and social discrimination against gay people living in Britain in 1980s.

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

This wide-ranging resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine claims and beliefs - and provide the facts - about sexual assault and harassment and other forms of sexual violence in the United States.

Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law.

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court's historically masculinist gender regime.

This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th century.

Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems.

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status - has frequently been neglected.

This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion.

This book presents six scholarly examinations of emerging issues in criminology and criminal justice as they impact LGBTQ+ people.

Modern scholars of most major religious traditions, who seek gender egalitarian interpretations of their scriptural texts, confront a common dilemma: how can they produce interpretations that are at once egalitarian and authoritative, within traditions that are deeply patriarchal?

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

This book amplifies the different voices and experiences of those facing gender-based violence (GBV) in the Global South.

This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender.

Los humanos creamos y recreamos constantemente la diversidad, y esa es precisamente la característica que nos humaniza y al mismo tiempo nos distingue culturalmente, por lo que sus manifestaciones bien podrían pasar inadvertidas si no fuera porque en ocasiones se utilizan para justificar exclusiones sociales de todo tipo, o como instrumentos de poder para establecer jerarquías y relaciones sociales que propician la desigualdad, explotación, subordinación, sujeción y discriminación.

The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux.

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects.

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

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Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate.

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century.

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.

Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation to the transformations of neoliberal capitalism.

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association.

Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions.

Sexual Offences: Law and Context presents the substantive law governing sexual offending in England and Wales in its socio-legal and historical context.

This book explores, through a children's rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities.

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture?