Law and society, gender issues

This fascinating book demonstrates the diversity of Connecticut's women's feminist activities in pre- and post-suffrage eras and refutes the notion that feminist activism died out with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse in a digital era.

A fascinating exploration of how the law--as viewed and decided by the courts--often embodies fear and prejudice against homosexuality, and thereby, becomes the instrument for discrimination.

On Shifting Ground examines how it is to become a man in a place and time defined by economic contraction and carceral expansion.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.

In the context of the 2016 presidential election, which was rife with charges of sexist actions, this book explains how common such behavior is among executives, why law doesn't protect victims, and how female professionals can bring change.

Despite the pervasive changes that have taken place in women's lives in the past twenty-five years--increased participation in the labor force, the attainment of higher levels of education, and higher salaries--comparable changes in the division of family labor and in the roles of men have lagged considerably.

First published in 1997, this book marks a culmination of a three year research programme focused upon the incidence of domestic violence in Leicester.

The influence of women in the colonial family and the community is examined using tax and probate records of southside Colonial Virginia.

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East.

A feminist rewrite of tort law cases that reveals gender bias and the law''s failure to redress serious harms to women.

This book makes an important contribution to the international understanding of domestic violence and shares the latest knowledge of what causes and sustains domestic violence between intimate partners, as well as the effectiveness of responses in working with adult and child victims, and those who act abusively towards their partners.

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA).

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself.

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.

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women's workplace rights.

A transformative progressive politics requires the state's reimagining.

The figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial.

Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice covers a wide range of legal issues associated with sexuality, gender, reproduction, and identity.

This book tells the long-neglected story of women''s marital denaturalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line.

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

Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers' experiences of work and workplace exploitation.

Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse.

Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law.

A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the African Woman Judge examines questions on gender diversity, representative benches, and international courts by focusing on women judges from the continent of Africa.

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men's responsibility.

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

Based on extensive original research, this book explores how the Indonesian Anti-Domestic Violence Law is understood and applied in practice.

Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law.

In einer Welt, in der Sprache immer mehr im Mittelpunkt gesellschaftlicher Debatten steht, bietet dieses Buch eine fundierte, kritische und persönliche Reflexion über das Phänomen des Genderns.

Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law.

Privacy can function as an expressive, anti-subordination tool of resistance that is worthy of constitutional protection.

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

This book, first published in 1990, takes a challenging look at the images constructed by the Press of women's political protest.

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.

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

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

The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered to be foundational to society and the organization of its institutions.

Feminism and transgender, as social factions or collective subjectivities, have historically evaded, vilified or negated each other's philosophy and subjectivities.

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

A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.

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

Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line.

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change.

'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women''s organisations in northern India.

Provides insights about the identity, marginalization and governance of the Khawaja Sira—gender nonconforming individuals in Pakistan.