Gender, Sexualities and Law (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jones, Jackie; Stevenson, Kim; Fenton, Rachel Anne; Grear, Anna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of issues - both topical and controversial - raised by the gendered character of law and legal discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136829222
• Artikelnr.: 38274022

Autorenporträt

Jackie Jones, Anna Grear and Rachel Anne Fenton are based at the University of Western England; Kim Stevenson teaches at the University of Plymouth.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Theory
Law and Sex 1. Women and the Cast of Legal Persons
Ngaire Naffine 2. De/Sexing the Woman Lawyer
Rosemary Hunter 3. 'Sexing the Matrix': Embodiment
Disembodiment and the Law: Towards the Re-Gendering of Legal Personality?
Anna Grear 4. Vulnerability
Equality and the Human Condition
Martha A. Fineman Part 2: Representations
Law and Sex 5. The 'Gendered Company' Revisited
Alice Belcher 6. The Public Sex of the Judiciary: The Appearance of the Irrelevant and the Invisible
Leslie J. Moran 7. Sexuality
Gender and Social Cognition: Lesbian and Gay Identity in Judicial Decision-Making
Todd Brower 8. The Gendered Dock: Reflections on the Impact of Gender Stereotyping in the Criminal Justice System
Judith Rowbotham Part 3: Violence
Law and Sex 9. 'She Never Screamed out and Complained': Recognising Gender in Legal and Media Representations of Rape
Kim Stevenson 10. Gendering Rape: Social Attitudes towards Male and Female Rape
Phil N.S. Rumney and Natalia Hanley 11. When Hate is not Enough: Tackling Homophobic Violence
Iain McDonald 12. The Legal Construction of Domestic Violence: 'Unmasking' a Private Problem
Mandy Burton Part 4: International Violence
Law and Sex 13. Criminalization or Protection? Tensions in the Construction of Prevention Strategies Concerning Trafficking for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation
Anna Carline 14. A Woman's Honour and a Nation's Shame: 'Honour Killings' in Pakistan
Shilan Shah-Davis 15. Supranational Criminal Prosecution of Sexual Violence
Anne-Marie de Brouwer Part 5: Reproduction
Law and Sex 16. The Strange Case of the Invisible Woman in Abortion Law Reform
Kate Gleeson 17. Third-Wave Feminism
Motherhood and the Future of Feminist Legal Theory
Bridget J. Crawford 18. 'Shall I be Mother?' Reproductive Autonomy
Feminism and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
Rachel Anne Fenton
D. Jane V. Rees and Sue Heenan 19. Motherhood and Autonomy in a Shared Parenting Climate
Susan B. Boyd Part 6: Relationships
Law and Sex 20. A very British Compromise? Civil Partnerships
Liberalism by Stealth and the Fallacies of Neo-Liberalism
Jeffrey Weeks 21. Attitudes to Same-Sex Marriage in South African Muslim Communities: An Exploratory Study
Elsje Bonthuys and Natasha Erlank 22. Taking 'Sex' out of Marriage in the EU
Jackie Jones 23. From Russia (and Elsewhere) with Love: Mail Order Brides
Jennifer Marchbank