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Transitional justice is the way societies that have experienced civil conflict or authoritarian rule and widespread violations of human rights deal with the experience. With its roots in law, transi……続きを見る

Taking the postcolonial – or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of re……続きを見る

Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across ……続きを見る

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 w……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Book Award Winner of the 2022 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist……続きを見る

Misogyny as Hate Crime explores the background, nature and consequences of misogyny as well as the legal framework and UK policy responses associated with misogyny as a form of hate crime. Taking an……続きを見る

Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls argues that women and girls are vulnerable across all areas of society, and that therefore a commitment to end violence against women and girls needs t……続きを見る

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 o……続きを見る

¿Cuáles son las vinculaciones entre los feminismos y el derecho? ¿Qué entendemos por "feminismos jurídicos"? ¿Cuáles son las implicancias de pensar y hacer derecho desde este anclaje político? ¿Qué ……続きを見る

The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release. Often overlooked, the decisions made at the earliest phas……続きを見る

This book is essential reading for feminist and other legal scholars, scholars in political science and women’s studies, and activists working with victims of intimate partner violence. It will also……続きを見る

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of iftā’ to better understand the process of issuing fatwās in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between……続きを見る

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports. The vast majority of patented inventions are attributed to male inventors. While this has result……続きを見る

The Indian Constitution is the largest written constitution that guarantees equality to women and empowers the State to take affirmative actions in favour of women. India has adopted International c……続きを見る

In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and ……続きを見る

Revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era #MeToo’s stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 radically cha……続きを見る

La violencia en el matrimonio y en las uniones afectivas, y el maltrato en niñas, niños y adolescentes no tienen edad ni estatus social. Es lamentable que uno de los patrones de la violencia sea el ……続きを見る

Nonostante gli impegni formali assunti dalle Nazioni Unite e dalla Commissione Europea per migliorare gli squilibri di genere, negli ultimi decenni i progressi verso la parità di genere sul mercato ……続きを見る

This book addresses how law and public policy cause or exacerbate vulnerability in individuals and groups. Bringing together scholars, judges and practitioners, it identifies how individuals and gro……続きを見る

“Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is……続きを見る

Winner, 2021-2022 AES Senior Book Prize, awarded by the American Ethnological Society Honorable Mention, Senior Book Prize of the Association for Feminist Anthropology Uncovers how the process of se……続きを見る

¿Hay una continuidad en la violencia ejercida contra las mujeres en escenarios de paz y de guerra? ¿Las violencias, que sufren las mujeres en la actualidad, tienen rasgos característicos o distintiv……続きを見る

A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl’s lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state’s constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada ……続きを見る

Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and the……続きを見る

This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries. Generally, the key debates on sex work have cen……続きを見る

☆ 台灣成為亞洲第一個婚姻平權、同性得以結婚國家的倡議、行動與修法歷程全記錄！ ☆ 以攝影搭配紀錄與採訪，用圖像述說平權運動歷程的艱辛與淚水。 ☆ 台灣憲政與人權歷史上的驕傲，參與平權見證歷史的你我都該保留……続きを見る

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court’s ……続きを見る

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the ro……続きを見る

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 Unit……続きを見る

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men’s responsibility. It situates these within the personal……続きを見る