Law and society, gender issues

Between 2000 and 2015, women ascended to the top of judiciaries across Africa, most notably as chief justices of supreme courts in common law countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia, but also as presidents of constitutional courts in civil law countries such as Benin, Burundi, Gabon, Niger and Senegal.

Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform is an important addition to the literature and teaching on innocence reform.

In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that seek to address the "e;balance"e; between work and family.

Reproductive justice theory made real through re-imagining critical cases addressing pregnancy, parenting, and the law''s treatment of marginalized women.

The crime of homicide has long animated academic debate, community concern and political attention.

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

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

How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals' mobility and safety.

This volume is the first collection of Martha Albertson Fineman's most important and influential work.

This volume is the fully revised and updated version of the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol.

This book provides a much-needed focus on the victimization experiences of those within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA) communities.

Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Ireland's new domestic abuse offence.

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.

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.

Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "e;requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated.

Northern Ireland stands out as having enacted historical positive change in abortion law, from an almost complete ban in the 20th century to the decriminalization achieved in 2019.

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

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

Al preguntarse por el qué y el cómo del proceso paritista latinoamericano, la autora explora un análisis conceptual y contextual de las causas, factores y actores que han intervenido en la amplia movilización hacia la democracia paritaria en América Latina.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics.

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.

This book provides a detailed exploration of the responses of the criminal justice system to domestic abuse in Northern Ireland.

Relying on a multidisciplinary framework of inquiry and critical perspective, this edited volume addresses the unique experiences of Black males within various stages of contact in the criminal justice system.

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.

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 the discrepancies among what protections Title IX provides to pregnant and parenting students, what colleges communicate, and what pregnant and parenting students actually experience.

At the end of the twentieth century a step-change in thinking about the offending behaviour of women began to impact on policy-makers concerned with the treatment of female offenders.

Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU Member States.

Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart's innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989).

Ania Zbyszewska''s feminist, socio-legal approach to the European working time regime examines its gender dynamics and influence in the Polish working time reform.

Outlines how land disputes are entangled with gender, ethnicity and territoriality, shaping public authority and state formation.

This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history.

Explores the ECtHR''s understanding of what it means to be a ''father'' and the role of doctrines of interpretation.

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

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.

If you''ve dreamed of walking free of sexual harassment, you will understand why it''s time to end stop-and-frisk policing.

A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights.

In States of Passion: Law, Identity and the Social Construction of Desire, Professor Yvonne Zylan explores the role of legal discourse in shaping sexual experience, sexual expression, and sexual identity.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

This book explores the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in international criminal law and asks what the juridicalisation of gender-based violence signifies for women.

This book provides a much-needed focus on the victimization experiences of those within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA) communities.

This book provides a detailed exploration of the responses of the criminal justice system to domestic abuse in Northern Ireland.

Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives explores the impact that recent seismic shifts in the legal landscape have had for lesbians and gay men.

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.

Transitional justice is the way societies that have experienced civil conflict or authoritarian rule and widespread violations of human rights deal with the experience.

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

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.

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.

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