Gender & the Law 9

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has been, and continues to be, praised as America’s greatest judge and he is widely considered to have done more than anyone else to breathe life into the Constitution’s r……続きを見る

Building on comparative research in the U.K. and the U.S.A., this is the first book focused specifically on transgender experiences within policing. It examines the issues faced by the transgender c……続きを見る

Indeed we have a responsibility to educate others on their human rights and freedoms as well as respect them. We can only do this when we first educate ourselves on the subject so we can teach other……続きを見る

Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many wom……続きを見る

What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooti……続きを見る

For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy encom……続きを見る

A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has sh……続きを見る

This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the ……続きを見る

Written from an ethnographic perspective, this book investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in Gaza-Palestine. It examines the way judges, lawyers and litigants operate with re……続きを見る

Libby Adler offers a comprehensive critique of the mainstream LGBT legal agenda in the United States, showing how LGBT equal rights discourse drives legal advocates toward a narrow array of reform o……続きを見る

During the struggle for decolonization, Frantz Fanon argued that artists who mimicked European aestheticism were “beginning at the end,” skipping the inventive phase of youth for a decadence thought……続きを見る

This book is a legal and political intervention into a contemporary debate concerning the appropriateness of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young gender non-conforming people for so-cal……続きを見る

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to ……続きを見る

Este libro, hace parte de una serie de textos en la materia, presenta tres capítulos fruto de la investigación y reflexión académica, en la cual investigadoras e investigadores en el campo socio jur……続きを見る

This compelling volume considers three significant modern developments: the ever-changing role of women in society; a significant and growing dissatisfaction with current dominant understandings of ……続きを見る

The life and times of a trailblazing feminist in American law. The first female Stanford law professor was also first director of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, one of the first w……続きを見る

“La asamblea de las mujeres”, también conocida como “Las asambleístas” es una obra de teatro escrita por Aristófanes hace 25 siglos en el 392 a. C., en un momento de crisis en Atenas, tras las conse……続きを見る

How can governments ensure that women have the same employment and entrepreneurship opportunities as men? One important step is to level the legal playing field so that the rules for operating in th……続きを見る

Feminism and transgender, as social factions or collective subjectivities, have historically evaded, vilified or negated each other’s philosophy and subjectivities. In particular, separatist feminis……続きを見る

Women in Criminal Justice is Book Four in the Durvile True Cases Series and in it, Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging. Some were d……続きを見る

Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice sy……続きを見る

African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-defin……続きを見る

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. The book explores the por……続きを見る

This is a story of love, compassion and forgiveness; of taking control of your own life and fighting for what you believe in. A story of strength, courage and resilience. Becoming a single parent is……続きを見る

This book explores femicide, and scrutinizes the three key American criminal doctrines usually applied in its cases: provocation; the felony murder rule; self-defence. The book also explores the inf……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon their families: such 'transgressions' ran……続きを見る

In the fall of 2016 those promoting patriarchal ideals saw their champion Donald Trump elected president of the United States and showed us how powerful patriarchy still is in American society and c……続きを見る

Etiyopya Federal Demokratik Cumhuriyeti (EFDC), Afrika’nın doğusunda, Afrika Boynuzu diye bilinen bölgede yer almaktadır. Yüzölçümü yaklaşık 1.100.000 kilometre kare olup batıda Sudan, güneybatı……続きを見る

This edited collection addresses intimate partner violence, risk and security as global issues. Although intimate partner violence, risk and security are intimately connected they are rarely conside……続きを見る