Law and society, gender issues

The Sexual Politics of Border Control conceptualises sexuality as a method of bordering and uncovers how sexuality operates as a key site for the containment, capture and regulation of movement.

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology.

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.

Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states.

Gender Remade examines the role that constitutional culture played in the transition from territory to statehood in the American West.

First published in 1998, this study investigates the effectiveness of services for helping women who are survivors of domestic violence.

Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America.

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

The volume offers an overview of the theories and practices of Italian legal feminism, presenting both the main themes addressed and the main protagonists of Italian feminist legal theory.

This book tells the real-life horror story of states'' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.

This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities.

Gender Remade examines the role that constitutional culture played in the transition from territory to statehood in the American West.

Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes determined in 1927 that sterilization was a legitimate means of safeguarding the nation's health, he was asserting the state's right to regulate the production of the national body.

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

In the United States, the second-wave feminist fight to achieve legal and societal recognition of mens violence against women leaned heavily on the victim-offender binary, which has since become inscribed in funding schemes, legal remedies, and intervention approaches.

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

This book offers a jurisprudential meditation on and methodological performance of how feminist and legal thought come into relation.

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changing community values and the changing legal definitions of consent in sexual offending, focusing on common law and civil law countries.

While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant attention paid to the impact of macro-level factors.

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent.

This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective.

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

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

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book.

"e;Since the fall of the Berlin wall there has been a surprising dearth of high quality of scholarship on legal culture in the communist successor states of East Central Europe.

This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people.

The figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial.

Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades.

This scholarly legal work focuses on the dilemma of prosecuting gender-based crimes under the statutes of the international criminal tribunals with reference to the principle of fair labelling.

Examines the law governing consent to medical treatment for trans youth in Australia, England and Wales.

The EU has slowly but surely developed a solid body of equality law that prohibits different facets of discrimination.

Winner of the 2016 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology.

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship.

Offers a bold and original thesis and explains why feminism, joining men and women, is the key to resistance.

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.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

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

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.

Cosmopolitanism and the Development of the International Criminal Court analyzes a set of prominent and competing discourses that emerged in the context of the development and establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This edited collection addresses intimate partner violence, risk and security as global issues.

Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland.

Analysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition.

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

Drawing on empirical data from women who pay for sexual services and those who provide services to women, this ground-breaking study is the first of its kind in the UK, detailing the experiences of women who pay for sex in an explicit, direct, prearranged way.

In this book, Laurence Armand French frames the emergence of medical, clinical, and legal ethical standards within the long history of institutional and systemic racial and gender biases in the United States.

A study of how the development of representative politics in late-colonial India transformed notions of family, gender and religious community.

This edited collection addresses intimate partner violence, risk and security as global issues.

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