Law and society, gender issues

';Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement.

Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems.

The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life.

Unruly women are not often represented in a good light.

Revisiting the doctrine of implied consent in Canadian sexual assault law.

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Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights.

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, FinalistWhile car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion Karen Thompson, initiating a nearly decade-long struggle over the guardianship of Kowalski.

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.

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.

'A man, now, well sure enough, one of those you can forget; but a child is forever.

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, FinalistWhile car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion Karen Thompson, initiating a nearly decade-long struggle over the guardianship of Kowalski.

When we talk about sexwhether great, good, bad, or unlawfulwe often turn to consentas both our erotic and moral savior.

This book considers the challenges of constitution-making when gender equity and agency are goals.

The emergence of the terms 'pink tax' and 'tampon tax' in everyday language suggests that women, who already suffer from an economic disadvantage due to the gender wage gap, are put in an even more detrimental position by means of 'discriminatory consumption taxes'.

The emergence of the terms 'pink tax' and 'tampon tax' in everyday language suggests that women, who already suffer from an economic disadvantage due to the gender wage gap, are put in an even more detrimental position by means of 'discriminatory consumption taxes'.

Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to 'historical' or 'non-recent' child sexual abuse (NRCSA) in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, each of which represents an evolving and progressive approach to this important and complex issue.

Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to 'historical' or 'non-recent' child sexual abuse (NRCSA) in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, each of which represents an evolving and progressive approach to this important and complex issue.

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Originally published in 1998, Sexual Harassment in Higher Education addresses the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses.

Originally published in 1998, Sexual Harassment in Higher Education addresses the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses.

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

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

Despite recent reforms to the Turkish Penal Code, the country retains a high level of honour-based violence.

Despite recent reforms to the Turkish Penal Code, the country retains a high level of honour-based violence.

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate.

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate.

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.

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.

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.

This book addresses how law and public policy cause or exacerbate vulnerability in individuals and groups.

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.

This book addresses how law and public policy cause or exacerbate vulnerability in individuals and groups.

Sex-Positive Criminology proposes a new way to think about sexuality in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.

Sex-Positive Criminology proposes a new way to think about sexuality in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.

Originally published in 1989.

Originally published in 1989.

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

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

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

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

2013 will mark the fortieth anniversary of Roe v.