Law and society, gender issues

This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.

Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years shines new light on 33 legal landmarks, many forgotten today, that affected women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1939.

Sex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated.

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology.

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.

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

Drawing on extensive research from Australia, this book examines the experiences of sexual offence victims who submit a victim impact statement.

The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release.

While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state's regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy.

Ageing, Gender and Sexuality focuses on the experiences of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals, in order to analyse how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to produce particular inequalities relating to resources, recognition and representation in later life.

This book is a legal and political intervention into a contemporary debate concerning the appropriateness of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young gender non-conforming people for so-called 'gender identity fraud'.

Dieses Themenheft befasst sich mit der Frage, wie Geschlecht vor Gericht hergestellt und verhandelt, aber auch strategisch eingesetzt wurde, um Ansprüche durchzusetzen oder sich gegen Vorwürfe zu verteidigen.

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally.

This groundbreaking collection is the first to focus specifically on LGBT* people and dementia.

The construction industry has historically been male-dominated due to societal expectations and biases, specifically around the physical demands of the job, as well as a lack of role models and mentors.

Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response examines existing and potential causes of action against sex traffickers, clients and the state and argues for fair and effective private law remedies.

Violence against women is an enduring problem around the globe, yet very few books look at the full range of men's violences against women - perpetrated in relationships, in the family, in public spaces, and in institutions.

Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid.

A comprehensive study of public reason for courts, with contributions from leading scholars in philosophy, political science and law.

This book considers how a phenomenon as complex as coercive control can be criminalised.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

Critically examines discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work and focuses on the inadequacies of the current law.

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.

Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility.

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of 'self-declaration' of legal gender status.

Este libro supone una reflexión y análisis de los vértices de un triángulo equilátero actualmente en auge: el lenguaje, la justicia restaurativa y la violencia de género, encajados en un sistema penal que demanda modernidad para las relaciones jurídicas interpersonales,de tal manera que, inmersos en unos momentos de proliferación de tantas leyes y de una violencia verbal imperante, se hace necesario incorporar nuevos sistemas que complementen el sistema penal tradicional, para dar otra perspectiva al enjuiciamiento de estos tipos de delito de violencia de género en casos leves, menos graves, eventuales y circunstanciales, dirimiéndose y canalizándose de una manera complementaria al sistema actual, donde los delitos de género están enquistados y confrontando el tejido social, y se requiere concebir formas de ayudar a desjudicializar el conflicto, de manera que se le pueda dar a las partes, en relaciones asimétricas, vías para solucionar los daños, precisando diferentes formas de intervenir en la reconstrucción verbal.

Justice After Stonewall is an interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and progress experienced by the LGBT community since the Stonewall riots in 1969.

This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world.

The Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project inaugurates a fresh dialogue on gender, legal judgment, judicial power and national identity in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

By means of a historical, legal and scientific approach, this book identifies the issues, progress and setbacks in the right for women to access abortion in various countries of the Global North.

This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years.

Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks.

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Considers how law interacts with economic and social processes to create global gender injustices.

Gender is an increasingly prominent aspect of the contemporary debate and discourse around law.

Employing feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives, Global Justice and Desire addresses economy as a key ingredient in the dynamic interplay between modes of subjectivity, signification and governance.

First published in 1985, this is the first published study of violence in the family to be aimed directly at people whose professions bring them into contact with domestic abuse victims, as well as those training for those professions.

Combining analyses of feminist legal theory, legal doctrine, and feminist social movements, The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States offers a comprehensive overview of U.

This volume examines how gender relations were regulated in ancient Near Eastern and biblical law.

With systematic, thematic chapters, this volume demonstrates how law and gender co-produce gendered legal subjects.

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

At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices?

Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 April 2011.

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

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life.

'This is a vital book.

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations.