Law and society, gender issues

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

The first textbook to consider gender perspectives in relation to the whole undergraduate law curriculum in England and Wales.

Seeing the role of transitional justice as an area of contestation, this book focuses on the principle of equality guaranteed in the access to transitional justice mechanisms.

Seeing the role of transitional justice as an area of contestation, this book focuses on the principle of equality guaranteed in the access to transitional justice mechanisms.

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour.

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour.

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association.

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association.

Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform is the first generalist text to tackle the intersection of law and gender in this jurisdiction for over two decades.

Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform is the first generalist text to tackle the intersection of law and gender in this jurisdiction for over two decades.

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.

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.

In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law.

In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law.

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

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

This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge.

This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge.

This book unearths the buried legacies of modern legal thought, exposing femicide's entanglements with colonialism, Black Atlantic slavery, and their enduring afterlives, while forging countercolonial pathways to justice.

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

Women war criminals are far more common than we think.

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems.

This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved-Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited.

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

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

'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.

Indeed we have a responsibility to educate others on their human rights and freedoms as well as respect them.

At a time when most women my age are planning for retirement and maybetaking up hobbies that are a little less aggressive, I decided to go into lawenforcement.

In a Box draws on the experiences of more than one hundred Michigan women on probation or parole to analyze how court, state, and federal policies hamper the state's efforts at gender-responsive reforms in community supervision.

A transformative progressive politics requires the state's reimagining.

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.

Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed.

Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner.

'As thrilling as a detective novel.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal .

'The kind of book that has you screaming "e;Yes!

This critically acclaimed memoir of one female cop is "e;an exceptionally well-written account of life in the Chicago Police Department from 1982 to 1988"e; (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

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.

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.

Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned, personal critique of the British legal system.

This book analyses the equal citizenship claims of women and sexual and gender diverse people across several Asian jurisdictions.

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.

This book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women's bodies.

This book presents six scholarly examinations of emerging issues in criminology and criminal justice as they impact LGBTQ+ people.

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

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

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.

Gender and the Law provides an ideal introduction to gender and feminist theory for students.