Law and society, gender issues

The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally.

This book addresses a growing area of concern for scholars and development practitioners: discriminatory gender norms in legally plural settings.

'As thrilling as a detective novel.

Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 1940 to 1960.

This book uses the concepts of vulnerability and resilience to analyze the situation of individuals and institutions in the context of the employment relationship.

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.

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.

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings.

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.

Law, Religion and Homosexuality is the first book-length study of how religion has shaped, and continues to shape, legislation that regulates the lives of gay men and lesbians .

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

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.

Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work?

The women's movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace.

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

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.

Díez explores how and why Latin America has become a leader among nations in the passage of gay marriage legislation.

Díez explores how and why Latin America has become a leader among nations in the passage of gay marriage legislation.

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

This book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law.

Honour based violence and abuse manifests itself in different forms, and this book offers a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon.

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'.

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

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.

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.

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

Originally published in 1989.

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.

This book discusses the evolving principle of transitional justice in public international law and international relations from the female perspective at a time when the concept is increasingly recognised by the international community as an effective framework in which to negotiate and manage a community's post-conflict transition to peace and stability.

Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime.

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

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent.

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

Transcending the Boundaries of Law is a ground-breaking collection that will be central to future developments in feminist and related critical theories about law.

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.

This book offers a critical appreciation of the nature and impact of coercive control in interpersonal relationships.

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.

Ageing, Gender and Sexuality focuses on the experiences of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals, in order to analyse how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to produce particular inequalities relating to resources, recognition and representation in later life.

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status - has frequently been neglected.

Women, Crime and Justice in Context presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice.

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

Situating privacy within the context of political philosophy, this book highlights the way in which struggles concerning the meaning of privacy have always been political.

First comparative study of women judges in the Asia-Pacific based on empirical socio-legal research.

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

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

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.

Building on comparative research in the U.

This new edition of Merry E.

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

In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society.