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Bristol University Press Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial
Book SynopsisThe use of a rape victim’s sexual history as evidence attracted intense public attention after the acquittal of footballer Ched Evans in 2017. Set within the context of a criminal justice system widely perceived to be failing rape victims, the use of sexual history evidence remains a flashpoint of contention around rape law reform. This accessible book mounts an important interrogation into the use of a victim’s sexual history as evidence in rape trials. Adopting a critical multidisciplinary perspective underpinned by feminist theory, the authors explore the role and significance of sexual history evidence in criminal justice responses to rape.Table of ContentsTable of Cases Table of Statutes Notes on Authors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Setting the Scene 2. A History of Rape Law in Action 3. Emergence of a Legal Regime Governing the Use of Sexual History Evidence 4. Legal Regulation: Limits and Potentialities 5. Tracking the Use of Sexual History Evidence in the Courtroom 6. The Relevance of Sexual History Evidence 7. Sexual History Evidence and Subjectivity 8. Conclusion: What Is To Be Done About Sexual History Evidence? References Index
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Bristol University Press Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis:
Book SynopsisThis accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal justice frameworks and practitioners. The book sets out experiences of the LGBTQ+ population as victims, offenders and professionals in legal systems in the US and internationally and explores what they mean for elements of those systems including police, courts, corrections and victims’ services. It is both a useful reference point for academics, students and professionals and a guide to how queer criminology can be theoretically applied and practically implemented in the worlds of policing, courts, corrections, and victims' services.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Towards Freedom, Empowerment, and Agency: An Introduction to Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis: Reimaging Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond – Carrie L. Buist and Lindsay Kahle Semprevivo 1. Gender- and Sexuality-Based Violence Among LGBTQ People: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory – Meredith G.F. Worthen 2. Queer Pathways – Michael K. Winters 3. Queer Criminology and the Destabilization of Child Sexual Abuse – Dave McDonald 4. Queer(y)ing the Experiences of LGBTQ Workers in Criminal Processing Systems – Angela Dwyer and Roddrick A. Colvin 5. ‘PREA Is a Joke’: A Case Study of How Trans PREA Standards Are(n’t) Enforced – April Carrillo 6. Queerly Navigating the System: Trans* Experiences Under State Surveillance – Rayna E. Momen 7. Sex-Gender Defining Laws, Birth Certificates, and Identity – Jon Rosenstadt 8. Effects of Intimate Partner Violence in the LGBTQ Community: A. Systematic Review – Illandra Denysschen and Rosalind Evans 9. Health Covariates of Intimate Partner Violence in a National Transgender Sample – Victoria Kurdyla, Adam M. Messinger, and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz 10. Serving Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Youth in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall – Alexandria Garcia, Naseem Badiey, Laura Agnich Chavez, and Wendy Still 11. Liberating Black Youth Across the Gender Spectrum Through the Deconstruction of the White Femininity/Black Masculinity Duality – Angela Irvine-Baker, Aisha Canfield, and Carolyn Reyes 12. ‘I Thought They Were Supposed to Be on My Side’: What Jane Doe’s Experience Teaches Us About Institutional Harm Against Trans Youth – Vanessa R. Panfil and Aimee Wodda 13. The Role of Adolescent Friendship Networks in Queer Youth’s Delinquency – Nayan G. Ramirez 14. ‘At the Very Least’: Politics and Praxis of Bail Fund Organizers and the Potential for Queer Liberation – Luca Suede Connolly and Rose M. Buckelew 15. A Conspiracy – Lucilla R. Harrell and S. Page Dukes 16. LGBTQ+ Homelessness: Resource Obtainment and Issues With Shelters – Trye Mica Price and Tusty ten Bensel 17. The Color of Queer Theory in Social Work and Criminology Practice: A World Without Empathy – Rebecca S. Katz 18. Camouflaged: Tackling the Invisibility of LGBTQ+ Veterans When Accessing Care – Shanna N. Felix and Chrystina Y. Hoffman 19. Barriers to Reporting, Barriers to Services: Challenges for Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Victimization – Danielle C. Slakoff and Jaclyn A. Siegel Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Do Justice? Current and Future Directions in Queer Criminological Research and Practice – Lindsay Kahle Semprevivo and Carrie L. Buist
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Irwin Law Inc Trauma, Trials and Transformation: Guiding sexual assault victims through the legal system and beyond
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Irwin Law Inc Women, Law, and Equality: A Discussion Guide
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Athabasca University Press Violence, Imagination, and Resistance:
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with
Book SynopsisFor feminist international law scholars, practitioners, and advocates, the first two decades of the new millennium have produced moments of elation and disenchantment. In the Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, a network of scholars and practitioners from a diverse group of countries contemplate the future of feminist engagement with international law. Can international law increase its relevance, beneficence, and impact for women in the developed and developing world? How can international law deal with a much wider range of issues relevant to women's lives than it currently does? What are the next frontiers for gender and international law making, law reform, and the beneficiaries of international law? The diverse global contributions to this Research Handbook delineate a future where feminist engagement with international law is robust, diverse, inclusive, influential, and leads to positive change in women's lives. The Research Handbook addresses larger themes of feminism and international law that will interest international law and gender studies scholars as well as HDR students. Additionally, this exploration will prove to be an asset to UN and INGO networks, regional organizations, and NGOs and social movements.Contributors include: J. Aeberhard-Hodges, S. Airey, M.P. Assis, B. Bennett, K. Chandrakirana, L. Chappell, H. Charlesworth, S.E. Davies, J.J. Dawuni, D. Estrada-Tanck, P. Finckenberg-Broman, G.M. Frisso, V. Fynn Bruey, J. Geng, F. Gerry, B. Goldblatt, R. Grey, M. Hansel, S. Harris Rimmer, R. Houghton, A. Isaac, M. Keyes, E. Larking, R. Maguire, A. O'Donoghue, D. Otto, K. Ogg, J. Ramji-Nogales, K. Rubenstein, S. Samar, G. Simm, N. Tzouvala, K. Woolaston, E. Yahyaoui KrivenkoTrade Review‘Susan Harris Rimmer and Kate Ogg have compiled an important volume on feminist engagement with international law. The editors build on recent research and scholarship produced on the subject, but also extend their inquiries to areas not previously covered by feminist scholars of international law in great detail, but which are of significance to the corpus of international law scholarship. . . . For those who teach, research, practice, or otherwise engage with international law, this volume is a useful source and a notable contribution to the literature.’ -- Penelope Andrews, American Journal of International Law‘This specialised expert text is a “must have” for anyone, wishing to better appreciate the opportunity feminist engagement with international law offers. It is plain that feminist engagement with any area of the law offers an exploration beyond “women as actors.” It is a distinct feature of this Research Handbook, and a particular success of its editors, the diversity of theoretical approaches and different methodologies outlined for the reader. A feminist approach is not singular and is instead best viewed as a rich web of different approaches and methodologies, which lend themselves particularly nicely to interdisciplinary research, embedded in the broader context. Readers are invited to explore this Research Handbook, as it is almost a guarantee that any reader, interested in international law, will find at least one contribution relevant to their own research, if not more.’ -- Feminist Legal Studies‘This is a highly recommended Research Handbook, which will be useful to both experts and readers who are new to feminist studies. . . . a “must have” for anyone, wishing to better appreciate the opportunity feminist engagement with international law offers.’ -- Metka Potočnik, Wolverhampton Law JournalTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Hilary Charlesworth 1. Introduction Kate Ogg and Susan Harris Rimmer 2. On Women, Peace and Security Sima Samar Part I: Diversifying Feminist Engagement with International Law 3. Women as Maker of International Law: Towards feminist diplomacy Susan Harris Rimmer 4. Wildlife and International Law: Can feminism transform our relationship with nature? Katie Woolaston 5. Gender, Climate Change and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Rowena Maguire 6. Can Global Constitutionalisation be Feminist? Aoife O’Donoghue and Ruth Houghton 7. Women in Private International Law Mary Keyes 8. Gender, Disasters and International Law Gabrielle Simm 9. ‘Sexing’ consent in international law Siobhán Airey 10. Practitioner Perspective State Aid Prohibition as an Instrument in the Gender War – Promoting Work for Women in the European Union? Pamela Finckenberg-Broman Part II: Making Feminist Engagement with International Law More Influential: Not just talking to ourselves 11. The Future of Feminist Engagement with Refugee Law: From the margins to the centre and out of the ‘Pink Ghetto’? Kate Ogg 12. Women and the International Court of Justice Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko 13. ‘Gender just judging’ in international criminal courts: New directions for research Rosemary Grey and Louise Chappell 14. Revisiting the category ‘women’ Jaya Ramji-Nogales 15. A Feminist Human Security-Human Rights Lens: Expanding women’s engagement with international law Dorothy Estrada-Tanck 16. The future of feminist international legal scholarship in a neoliberal university: doing law differently? Ntina Tzouvala 17. Practitioner Perspective Women and international treaty making: the example of standard-setting in the International Labour Organization Jane Aeberhard-Hodges Part III: Feminist Engagement with International Law: Improving Women’s Lives 18. Challenging gendered economic and social inequalities: An analysis of the role of trade and financial liberalisation in deepening inequalities, and of the capacity of economic and social rights to redress them Emma Larking 19. Looking to the Future: Gender, Health and International Law Belinda Bennett and Sara Davies 20. Oral history as empirical corrective: Including women’s experiences in international law Kim Rubenstein and Anne Isaac 21. Violence against Women and Social and Economic Rights: Deepening the Connections Beth Goldblatt 22. Feminist Time and International Law of the Everyday Mary Hansel 23. Practitioner Perspective Feminism in court: Practical solutions for tackling the wicked problem of women’s invisibility in criminal justice Felicity Gerry QC Part IV: Building Bridges with other Critical Theories 24. The Maputo Protocol and the Reconciliation of Gender and Culture in Africa Jing Geng 25. Sex/Gender is Fluid, What Now for Feminism and International Human Rights Law? A Call to Queer the Foundations Kathryn McNeilly 26. Matri-legal Feminism: An African Feminist Response to International Law Josephine Jarpa Dawuni 27. Frames of Violence and the Violence of Frames: Setting a Feminist Critical Agenda for Transnational Rituals of Speaking Mariana Prandini Assis 28. Third World Approaches to International Law: Feminists' Engagement with International Law and Decolonial Theory" Giovanna Maria Frisso 29. Indigenous Women and International Law Veronica Fynn Bruey 30. Reimagining Feminist Engagements with Internationl Law Kamala Chandrakirana Afterword Dianne Otto Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the
Book SynopsisThis innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices. Chapters address a range of current arguments and issues, providing an enhanced theoretical framework and evolving understanding from a variety of feminist and queer perspectives. Relationship recognition debates and LGBT activism and scholarship are examined and discussed, as well as questions around bodily autonomy, kink identities, pornography and healthcare access rights. Research exploring the lived experiences of people facing challenges such as domestic violence, asylum, femicide and hate crime is also assessed. This Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in the fields of law, sexuality and gender, as well as family studies, sociology, media and cultural studies, and medicine. Activists will also benefit from its scholarly insight into key policy debates and future strategy. Contributors include: L. Adler, C. Ashford, R. Auchmuty, A.A. Baboolal, R. Barberet, J. Cabrera, R. Collier, S. Cowan, T. Crofts, M. Duggan, P. Dunne, A. Dymock, S. Falcetta, D. Fenwick, H. Fenwick, S. Ferris, S. Gloppen, R. Harding, R. Hewer, A.C. Infanti, P. Johnson, M. Judge, U. Khan, C. Kitzinger, A. Kondakov, K. Lalor, T. Liu, A. Maine, C. McGlynn, M.F. Moscati, T. Mundy, A. Powell, L. Rakner, F. Renz, J.M. Scherpe, A. Schuster, S.M. Schuster, N. Seuffert, F. Simkiss, B. Simpson, D. Smythe, E. Tascioglu, F. Vera-Gray, M. Weait, S. Whittle, S. Wilkinson, G. ZagoTrade Review'They have edited a timely collection that offers a global perspective on ''the current gender, sexuality, and law research landscape.'' Highly recommended.' -- C Pinto, CHOICE'It provides a comprehensive, contemporary and provoking account of the field that is truly socio-legal in nature and places front and centre the voices of some of those most directly affected by the law and its institutions.' -- Ilona Cairns, Edinburgh Law Review'An important intervention in the persistent question of how we can use the law for sexual liberation without being used by the law. This volume interrogates who ''we'' are across multiple identities, what law is or has been in numerous jurisdictions, and what sexual, gender, and human liberation might be in our lifetimes. Not beholden to any particular theoretical perspective or doctrinal imperative, this collection will serve as a vital springboard for researchers in sex, gender, and legal struggles.' --Ruthann Robson, City University of New York, School of Law, US'An important and timely collection that demonstrates the enduring value of gender and sexuality for legal and other scholars working across a wide range of issues. While revisiting and recasting gay rights and feminist insights, it also opens up and broadens the field - conceptually and geographically - and acknowledges and engages with debates, rather than attempting to resolve them. In true queer style it troubles boundaries and provides signposts rather than destinations.' -- Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, UK'This book is a very useful resource for both students and academics wanting to consider where the field sits at this historical moment in which il/liberal states struggle with their own internal contradictions and the rise of populist movements. In the face of these forces, it charts paths for future socio-legal scholarship through theoretical and empirical engagement with activist struggles in the west and global south, foregrounding intersectionality in legal analysis around identity, lived experience, bodily autonomy, vulnerability and transgression.' -- Alex Sharpe, Keele University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and Law 1 Chris Ashford and Alexander Maine PART I NEW BOUNDARIES AND ACTIVISM 2 From the litigants’ perspective: Wilkinson v Kitzinger and the pursuit of marriage equality in England and Wales 8 Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger 3 Formal recognition of adult relationships and legal gender in a comparative perspective 17 Jens M. Scherpe 4 Diplomacy, conditionality and transnational LGBTI rights 32 Kay Lalor 5 Legislating and litigating same sex marriage in China 45 Tingting Liu and Jingshu Zhu 6 Striking women: the politics of gender, sexuality and the law in South Africa 60 Melanie Judge and Dee Smythe PART II IDENTITY AND STATE 7 Life at the corner of poverty and sexual abjection: lewdness, indecency, and LGBTQ youth 76 Libby Adler 8 Same sex marriage and Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights 91 Paul Johnson and Silvia Falcetta 9 LGBTI migration in Europe 104 Alexander Schuster 10 Fully recognizing both dignity and equality values under the emergent ECHR right to a same sex registered partnership 120 Helen Fenwick and Daniel Fenwick 11 Transgender rights in Europe: EU and Council of Europe movements towards gender identity equality 134 Peter Dunne PART III LIVED SOCIETY 12 Normative understandings: sexual identity, stereotypes, and asylum seeking 149 Alex Powell 13 Feminist responses to same sex relationship recognition 164 Rosemary Auchmuty 14 LGBT rights and tax law: a comparative perspective 181 Anthony C. Infanti 15 LGBT rights in Africa 194 Siri Gloppen and Lise Rakner PART IV BODILY AUTONOMY 16 A perfect storm: the UK government’s failed consultation on the Gender Recognition Act 2004 211 Stephen Whittle and Fiona Simkiss 17 Becoming a legal proxy: the unintended consequences of informed consent in US transgender medicine 232 stef m. shuster 18 (De)regulating trans identities 244 Flora Renz 19 ‘That’s a bit of a minefield’: supported decision making in intellectually disabled people’s intimate lives 256 Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu 20 Dispute resolution, domestic violence and abuse between lesbian partners 271 Maria Federica Moscati PART V VIOLENCE AND VULNERABILITY 21 The global femicide problem: issues and prospects 286 Rosemary Barberet and Aneesa A. Baboolal 22 Law, society and domestic violence: ‘best practice’ methodologies for evaluating integrated domestic violence services 301 Nan Seuffert and Trish Mundy 23 Gender and hate crime protections 317 Marian Duggan 24 Feminist mandated reporters question the Title IX system: when civil rights programs adopt managerial logics and protect institutional interests 330 Jessica Cabrera 25 Vulnerability, victimhood and sex offences 341 Sharon Cowan and Rebecca Hewer PART VI DEVIANCY AND ILLICIT CONSTRUCTIONS 26 Kinky identity and practice in relation to the law 362 Ummni Khan 27 Male sex work – a gendered, (hetro)sexist approach to regulation 379 Thomas Crofts 28 Regulating desire in Russia 396 Alexander Kondakov 29 Normative behaviour, moral boundaries and the state 409 Chris Ashford, Alexander Maine and Giuseppe Zago 30 Deviancy and illicit constructions 425 Brian Simpson PART VII TRANSGRESSIVE BOUNDARIES 31 Masculinities and families: fragmenting law’s ‘family man’ 443 Richard Collier 32 The healthcare rights of people living with HIV and AIDS 457 Matthew Weait 33 Regulating pornography: developments in evidence, theory and law 471 Fiona Vera-Gray and Clare McGlynn 34 Defending pornography: the case against strategic essentialism 484 Alex Dymock 35 Red, white, and BLACK AND BLUE: the American criminalization of BDSM 497 Stephan Ferris Index 513
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a
Book Synopsis'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an indispensable volume for all who are interested in the future of human rights.'- Tony Anghie, National University of Singapore and University of Utah, US'Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl is located within the best of critical theory traditions - thinking and rethinking orthodoxies around sexuality, rights and freedoms. Kapur not only deploys a late Foucauldian rethinking of freedom, but inherits the very spirit of intellectual engagement - of ''shak(ing) up habitual ways of working and thinking, dissipate(ing) conventional familiarities, to reevaluate rules and institutions'' (Foucault). It is a compelling, provocative read that will make its readers rethink what they think they already know.'- Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto, Canada'Ratna Kapur is one of the most important international legal scholars working today. Gender, Alterity and Human Rights is brilliant, provocative and ground breaking - I cannot think of any other book published today that centers radically 'other' approaches to political and ethical agency as the epistemological anchor for analysis of international law. She advances this ambitious new ground by showing how dominant approaches to human rights and feminism are themselves invested in political subjectivities and agendas that seek to redeem international law and authorize global governance. With theoretical rigor and a radical sensibility, she quarries through material as diverse as human rights case law and Sufi poetry to excavate the plurality of ways in which freedom is envisioned, challenged and inhabited.'- Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, USHuman rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. This book builds on the critique of this mainstream and official position on human rights, drawing attention to how human rights have been deployed to advance political and cultural intents rather than bring about freedom for disenfranchised groups. Its approach is unique insofar as it focuses on queer, feminist and postcolonial human rights advocacy, exposing how such interventions have at times advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral politics rather than producing freedom for their constituencies. Through a focus on campaigns for same-sex marriage, ending violence against women, and the Islamic veil bans in liberal democracies, human rights emerge as forms of governance that operate through normative prescriptions, which bind even as they purport to free, and establish a hierarchy of the human subject: who is human and who is not; who qualifies for rights and who does not. This book argues that the futurity of human rights rests in a transformative engagement with non-liberal registers of freedom beyond the narrow confines of the liberal fishbowl. This book will have a global appeal for students and academics concerned with international and human rights law, jurisprudence, critical legal theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, feminist legal theory, queer theory, religious studies, and philosophy. It will appeal to political activists and policymakers in the global justice arena concerned with the freedom of disenfranchised groups, human rights, gender justice, and the rights sexual and religious minorities.Trade Review‘In her book Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl, Ratna Kapur offers a powerful critique of human rights and liberal freedom that challenges our certainties of human rights advocacy and critical legal projects. Her book is a must-read for every human rights scholar and legal theorist.’ -- Cara Röhner, International Journal of Constitutional Law‘Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl is an intellectual tour-de-force, fluently crossing into the fields of political theory, legal theory, international law, and international relations. The book will be a useful resource for long to come to both scholars and students in the fields of political theory, legal theory, gender and sexuality studies, human rights, and international relations. Its implications are applicable across a wide variety of areas of inquiry, both closely related to and further afield from the direct discussion of human rights from which Kapur constructs a theoretical framework. I would assign it to graduate classes in law, politics, and gender studies, and am likely to continue to revisit the rich text several times in the coming years, both for dialogue with my research work and to think about the vexing problem of acting while escaping liberalisms' unfreedoms.’ -- Laura Sjoberg, Asia Pacific Law Review‘An important contribution to contemporary critical scholarship about human rights and, in particular, scholarship about the consequences of the expanding field of human rights and its offshoots, “gender mainstreaming” and “women, peace and security”.’ -- Sari Kouvo, European Journal of International Law of Freedom‘Ratna Kapur’s latest book Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fish Bowl masterfully tackles a normative claim that has been gaining increasing momentum over the last few decades: the human rights agenda has hit an impasse and needs serious transformation. Kapur writes with the assured confidence of the erudite theorist she is and her voice demands audience.’ -- – Feminist Legal Studies‘In an elegantly written book, Ratna Kapur takes the critique of the human rights project a step further to make a case for alternative registers of freedom and emancipation.’ -- Open Magazine‘Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur’s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an indispensable volume for all who are interested in the future of human rights.’ -- Tony Anghie, National University of Singapore and University of Utah, US‘How is human freedom pursued and experienced outside the [neo]liberal fish bowl? Courageously defying the critical human rights orthodoxies of nihilism or repair, Kapur catapults from her own ground-breaking analyses of the damage inflicted in pursuit of gender and sexual rights calling for a radical rethinking of human rights advocacy, drawing from non-liberal traditions. She dares us to venture beyond the fishbowl by charting several escape routes offered by alternative non-western, counter-hegemonic epistemologies of freedom which prioritize rigorous self-inquiry, non-dualistic perspectives and inclusive dialogue.’ -- Dianne Otto, Melbourne Law School, Australia‘Ratna Kapur is one of the most important international legal scholars working today. Gender, Alterity and Human Rights is brilliant, provocative and ground breaking – I cannot think of any other book published today that centers radically ‘other’ approaches to political and ethical agency as the epistemological anchor for analysis of international law. She advances this ambitious new ground by showing how dominant approaches to human rights and feminism are themselves invested in political subjectivities and agendas that seek to redeem international law and authorize global governance. With theoretical rigor and a radical sensibility, she quarries through material as diverse as human rights case law and Sufi poetry to excavate the plurality of ways in which freedom is envisioned, challenged and inhabited.’ -- Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Prologue Introduction 1. Liberal Freedom in a Fishbowl 2. Precarious Desires and the Pursuit of Rights 3. Freedom, Women’s Rights and the Rise of the Sexual Security Regime 4. Alterity, Gender Equality and the Veil 5. Despair, Redemption and the Turn Away from Human Rights 6. Seeking Freedom through Alternative Registers 7. Freedom from the Fishbowl Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Gender and Human Rights: Expanding Concepts
Book SynopsisThis unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko skilfully illustrates the dynamics within the field of human rights which hinder the expansion of the concept of gender and which strategies and mechanisms allow and facilitate such an expansion. Gender and Human Rights surveys the development of human rights from the creation of the United Nations up to the present day and discusses key examples of the prohibition of violence and the regulation of culture and family in the context of human rights. This multidisciplinary study also incorporates additional perspectives from medical science, feminism and queer theory.This concise yet engaging book will be a valuable resource for scholars, students and activists working at the intersection of gender law and human rights law, providing a critical overview of the topic alongside strategies for future growth.Trade Review'Yahyaoui Krivenko's compelling analysis reveals just how structurally embedded international human rights law's (mis)understanding of gender, as male/female duality and biological fact, is. This not only restricts law's capacity to fully comprehend how gender hierarchies impact on the enjoyment of human rights, but also implicates human rights law itself in perpetuating gendered harms. Yahyaoui Krivenko's call for disrupting this damaging gender script, and the openings she identifies as places to start, present a challenge to us all.' -- Dianne Otto, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Gender and its complexities 3. Human rights and gender: the first stage 4. Feminist approaches, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory: their engagement with gender and human rights 5. Human rights and gender: the second stage 6. Successes and challenges: right to be free from violence 7. Successes and challenges: culture and human rights 8. Successes and challenges: family and human rights 9. General conclusions Index
£75.00
Edward Elgar Gender Sexuality and Law
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Edward Elgar Gender Sexuality and Law
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Women and International Human Rights in Modern
Book SynopsisThis casebook provides an overview of the main international and regional legal standards related to the human rights of women and explores their development and practical application in light of contemporary times, challenges, and advances. It navigates the nuances of the ongoing problems of discrimination and gender-based violence, and analyzes them in the context of modern challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the MeToo movement and its aftermath, the growth of non-state actors, environment and climate change, sexual orientation and gender identity, and the digital world, among others.Incorporating lessons learned from her experiences as a practitioner and a law professor, the author navigates and provides snapshots of priority issues and themes in the field of the human rights of women. In each chapter, students are encouraged to reflect and answer questions alluding to the intricacies, challenges, and advances in the protection and exercise of women’s rights in modern times. The chapters also include many case judgments, decisions, views, and general recommendations adopted by universal and regional bodies and courts advancing the development of women human rights issues. This analysis is complemented by key scholarship, reports, and statements produced in the area of the human rights of women and its different features.Students of issues concerning human rights, women, gender equality, and international law will attain a thorough understanding of the field through this contemporary casebook.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Discrimination against women: doctrine, practice, and the path forward 2. Gender-based violence as a form of discrimination 3. Intersectionality and the interconnectedness of discrimination: the case of indigenous women 4. Sexual orientation and gender identity 5. Women and times of emergency: the case of COVID-19 6. Due diligence in the contemporary world: the era of MeToo, non-state actors, and social protest 7. The challenging road to equality and the pursuit of non-discrimination 8. Sexual and reproductive rights: a gender equality and international law approach 9. Economic, social, and cultural rights of women 10. Women, the environment, and climate change 11. Women and the regional human rights protection systems 12. Women, culture, and religion 13. The human rights of women in the digital world Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited 'Rough Sex' and the Criminal Law: Global
Book Synopsis‘Rough sex’ has been at the forefront of criminal law in recent years following several high-profile murders of women killed during alleged consensual sex ‘gone wrong’, leading to widespread calls for reform to prevent the use of what has been termed the ‘rough sex defence.’ Situated in a global context in which violence against women is one of the leading preventable contributors to death and illness for women aged 18–44 worldwide, this timely collection examines the rough sex defence and responds to some of the wider debates around sex and the law. Drawing on a range of empirical and theoretical standpoints, chapters delve into a range of topics including the female experience of ‘unwanted’ slapping, choking and spitting during sex, the BDSM community, the impacts of pornography, the normalization and sexualization of violence against women, early depictions of BDSM involving the eroticization of non-consensual relations, problematic perceptions of BDSM as inherently violent, and more. Bows and Herring expertly collate a wide-reaching mix of perspectives to contribute to a powerful feminist investigation of this critical issue. It is a compelling read for scholars interested in the intersection of sex, the law, and the criminal justice system.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Hannah Bows and Jonathan Herring Chapter 1. Consensual Aggression and Violence During Sex (‘rough sex’) in the General Population – A Scoping (Literature) Review; Bernard Gallagher, Nadia Wager, Victoria Gall, Barbara Gilroy, Lara Flynn Hudspith, Manisha Singh, Joseph Sykes, and Vicky Whitaker Chapter 2. Coercive Control and Rough Sex; Jonathan Herring Chapter 3. Defining rough sex via mainstream pornography; Samantha Keene Chapter 4. BDSM and the legal imaginary; Alexandra Fanghanel Chapter 5. The Legality of Love-bites; Amanda Spalding Chapter 6. Effectively Recognising and Punishing Sexual Coercion: Proposals for Reform; Susan Leahy Chapter 7. A Critique of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’ in Australian Rape Law; Rachael Burgin and Jonathan Crowe Chapter 8. Understanding women’s experiences of non-consensual violence in sex; Lucy Snow Chapter 9. The rough sex defence in the UK; Fiona Mackenzie Chapter 10. Reacting to Rough Sex: The Unexpected Toll of Section 71 Domestic Abuse Act 2021; Emily Bradley Chapter 11. On Sadism: Placing the Rough Sex Defence Within a History of Sadistic Conceptualisation; Ray Harris
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Conceptualizing Femicide as a Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book conceptualizes femicide as a multifaceted human rights violation and proposes state responsibility for group-related risks of violence against women and girls. In doing so, it reassesses the concept of femicide, analysing it in view of the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, as well as several facets of human rights.Angela Hefti challenges the common definition of femicide, extending it beyond the killing of women due to their gender to include elements of victim blame, sexual abuse, forced marriage and delayed investigations by authorities. Chapters address femicide in the context of the African, Inter-American and European regional and universal human rights systems. Case studies from Iraq, Nigeria and Mexico provide a fundamental understanding of the multidimensional and worldwide nature of femicide. Spanning several key academic debates, the book incorporates underlying feminist legal theory and approaches pertaining to the subordination of women and girls in society, arguing that femicide should qualify as an autonomous human rights violation.Providing an impetus for further research on femicide, particularly on state responsibility for crimes committed by private actors, this book will be a crucial resource for academics in human rights and humanitarian law, criminal law and justice. The book will also be highly valuable to activists, practitioners, and lawyers with an interest in advancing aspects of femicide in international human rights law.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the concept of femicide PART I FEMICIDE AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW 2. Femicide and (the laws of) war 3. Femicide and crimes against humanity 4. Femicide: Genocide by another name CONCLUSION TO PART I PART II FEMICIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 5. Femicide, the UN system and CEDAW 6. Femicide and the European human rights system 7. Femicide and the inter-American human rights system 8. Femicide and the African human rights system CONCLUSION TO PART II PART III A HUMAN RIGHTS CONCEPT OF FEMICIDE AND STATE RESPONSIBILITY 9. Conceptualizing femicide as a human rights violation 10. No more impunity: Femicide and state responsibility 11. Conclusion to Conceptualiziing Femicide as a Human Rights Violation Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Gender
Book SynopsisFeminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist perspective to expose and address these structural political, social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is bound up with the non-human, natural world.With contributions from leading scholars in law, feminism, human rights and politics, this book considers how equality is conceptualised experienced and used in policies, law and practice that are integral to climate justice. Chapters reveal how international and national policy and legal frameworks fall short on gender equality and climate justice. Overall, the book demonstrates that the climate crisis demands an ambitious and transformative approach to equality, including developing feminist ideas of care and social reproduction, to reconstruct law and policy towards a more just world for all.This ground-breaking book will be essential reading for scholars across many areas of law including environmental law, human rights, public international law, law and gender, and law and development. Its discussion of the international framework alongside in-depth casestudies and assessments of women’s mobilization strategies will also be highly relevant to social scientists, officials in international organizations, policymakers, lawyers and activists.Trade Review‘Hearty congratulations to the authors of Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice for exposing the gender discriminatory dimensions of climate injustices. The best way to honor this book is to read it and ask how we can bring feminist perspectives to the development of mitigation and adaptation strategies necessary to achieve climate justice.’ -- Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction – Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Rights, climate change and gender equality 1 Cathi Albertyn, Helena Alviar García, Meghan Campbell, Sandra Fredman and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado 1 The inequality of climate change and the difference it makes 17 Shreya Atrey 2 A critical evaluation of inter-generational equity and its application in the climate change context 40 Kate Wilkinson Cross 3 A feminist critique on gender based violence in a changing climate: Seeing, listening and responding 68 Rowena Maguire 4 A greener CEDAW: Adopting a women’s substantive equality approach to climate change 90 Meghan Campbell 5 The world of work: A green and feminist future? 116 Sandra Fredman 6 Radical connectedness: Reproductive rights, climate justice and gender equality 138 Cathi Albertyn 7 Gender equality and climate change in plural legal contexts: A critical analysis of Kenya’s law and policy framework 165 Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Nkatha Kabira 8 Climate change and gender in Colombia: Exploring female led struggle in the flower industry 188 Helena Alviar García and María Carolina Olarte-Olarte 9 The value of litigation to women environmental human rights defenders in South Africa 213 Lisa Chamberlain 10 ‘Grass in the cracks’: Gender, social reproduction and climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle 246 Beth Goldblatt and Shireen Hassim 11 Indigenous women against Bolsonaro’s government in Brazil: Resisting right-wing authoritarianism and demanding climate justice 268 Marta Machado, Denise Vitale and Danielle Rached Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Gender and Human Rights: Expanding Concepts
Book SynopsisThis unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko skilfully illustrates the dynamics within the field of human rights which hinder the expansion of the concept of gender and which strategies and mechanisms allow and facilitate such an expansion. Gender and Human Rights surveys the development of human rights from the creation of the United Nations up to the present day and discusses key examples of the prohibition of violence and the regulation of culture and family in the context of human rights. This multidisciplinary study also incorporates additional perspectives from medical science, feminism and queer theory.This concise yet engaging book will be a valuable resource for scholars, students and activists working at the intersection of gender law and human rights law, providing a critical overview of the topic alongside strategies for future growth.Trade Review'Yahyaoui Krivenko's compelling analysis reveals just how structurally embedded international human rights law's (mis)understanding of gender, as male/female duality and biological fact, is. This not only restricts law's capacity to fully comprehend how gender hierarchies impact on the enjoyment of human rights, but also implicates human rights law itself in perpetuating gendered harms. Yahyaoui Krivenko's call for disrupting this damaging gender script, and the openings she identifies as places to start, present a challenge to us all.' -- Dianne Otto, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Gender and its complexities 3. Human rights and gender: the first stage 4. Feminist approaches, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory: their engagement with gender and human rights 5. Human rights and gender: the second stage 6. Successes and challenges: right to be free from violence 7. Successes and challenges: culture and human rights 8. Successes and challenges: family and human rights 9. General conclusions Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd State, Law and Gender: Debating the Age of
Book SynopsisA critical analysis of marriage law in India from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century In State, Law and Gender, Shreya Roy highlights how Indian law has been implicated in women's subordination. It explores the ideological expectations that underpin women's legal regulation, as well as the traditions in which law subjugates women - the multifaceted and elusive ways wherein law validates profoundly gender-based suppositions, relationships, and characters. The book demonstrates that the correlation of moral precepts and legal norms is associated with the broader history of the age of marriage of girls in India, and it has also shown how history includes diverse alternatives to understanding and addressing the problem of child marriages that do not rely on liberal legal frameworks. The book critically analyzes and evaluates the social and legislative history of the period focusing particularly on three significant pieces of legislation - Act III of 1872, the Age of Consent Act of 1891, and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929. It traces the history of the legal changes related to the age of marriage in India after Independence, and links this issue with the present-day concern and the Government's initiative for raising the age of marriage of girls.Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Hindu Women, Social Reform and Marriage in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century India 2. Marriage and the Law: Brahmos and the Act III of 1872 3. Debates in History, Debates on History: Age of Consent Act of 1891 and the Issue of Child Marriage in India 4. The State, Age of Marriage and the Question of Social Legislation: The Sarda Act of 1929 5. Contemporary Concerns on the Age of Marriage Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a
Book Synopsis'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an indispensable volume for all who are interested in the future of human rights.'- Tony Anghie, National University of Singapore and University of Utah, US'Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl is located within the best of critical theory traditions - thinking and rethinking orthodoxies around sexuality, rights and freedoms. Kapur not only deploys a late Foucauldian rethinking of freedom, but inherits the very spirit of intellectual engagement - of ''shak(ing) up habitual ways of working and thinking, dissipate(ing) conventional familiarities, to reevaluate rules and institutions'' (Foucault). It is a compelling, provocative read that will make its readers rethink what they think they already know.'- Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto, Canada'Ratna Kapur is one of the most important international legal scholars working today. Gender, Alterity and Human Rights is brilliant, provocative and ground breaking - I cannot think of any other book published today that centers radically 'other' approaches to political and ethical agency as the epistemological anchor for analysis of international law. She advances this ambitious new ground by showing how dominant approaches to human rights and feminism are themselves invested in political subjectivities and agendas that seek to redeem international law and authorize global governance. With theoretical rigor and a radical sensibility, she quarries through material as diverse as human rights case law and Sufi poetry to excavate the plurality of ways in which freedom is envisioned, challenged and inhabited.'- Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, USHuman rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. This book builds on the critique of this mainstream and official position on human rights, drawing attention to how human rights have been deployed to advance political and cultural intents rather than bring about freedom for disenfranchised groups. Its approach is unique insofar as it focuses on queer, feminist and postcolonial human rights advocacy, exposing how such interventions have at times advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral politics rather than producing freedom for their constituencies. Through a focus on campaigns for same-sex marriage, ending violence against women, and the Islamic veil bans in liberal democracies, human rights emerge as forms of governance that operate through normative prescriptions, which bind even as they purport to free, and establish a hierarchy of the human subject: who is human and who is not; who qualifies for rights and who does not. This book argues that the futurity of human rights rests in a transformative engagement with non-liberal registers of freedom beyond the narrow confines of the liberal fishbowl. This book will have a global appeal for students and academics concerned with international and human rights law, jurisprudence, critical legal theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, feminist legal theory, queer theory, religious studies, and philosophy. It will appeal to political activists and policymakers in the global justice arena concerned with the freedom of disenfranchised groups, human rights, gender justice, and the rights sexual and religious minorities.Trade Review‘In her book Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl, Ratna Kapur offers a powerful critique of human rights and liberal freedom that challenges our certainties of human rights advocacy and critical legal projects. Her book is a must-read for every human rights scholar and legal theorist.’ -- Cara Röhner, International Journal of Constitutional Law‘Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl is an intellectual tour-de-force, fluently crossing into the fields of political theory, legal theory, international law, and international relations. The book will be a useful resource for long to come to both scholars and students in the fields of political theory, legal theory, gender and sexuality studies, human rights, and international relations. Its implications are applicable across a wide variety of areas of inquiry, both closely related to and further afield from the direct discussion of human rights from which Kapur constructs a theoretical framework. I would assign it to graduate classes in law, politics, and gender studies, and am likely to continue to revisit the rich text several times in the coming years, both for dialogue with my research work and to think about the vexing problem of acting while escaping liberalisms' unfreedoms.’ -- Laura Sjoberg, Asia Pacific Law Review‘An important contribution to contemporary critical scholarship about human rights and, in particular, scholarship about the consequences of the expanding field of human rights and its offshoots, “gender mainstreaming” and “women, peace and security”.’ -- Sari Kouvo, European Journal of International Law of Freedom‘Ratna Kapur’s latest book Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fish Bowl masterfully tackles a normative claim that has been gaining increasing momentum over the last few decades: the human rights agenda has hit an impasse and needs serious transformation. Kapur writes with the assured confidence of the erudite theorist she is and her voice demands audience.’ -- – Feminist Legal Studies‘In an elegantly written book, Ratna Kapur takes the critique of the human rights project a step further to make a case for alternative registers of freedom and emancipation.’ -- Open Magazine‘Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur’s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an indispensable volume for all who are interested in the future of human rights.’ -- Tony Anghie, National University of Singapore and University of Utah, US‘How is human freedom pursued and experienced outside the [neo]liberal fish bowl? Courageously defying the critical human rights orthodoxies of nihilism or repair, Kapur catapults from her own ground-breaking analyses of the damage inflicted in pursuit of gender and sexual rights calling for a radical rethinking of human rights advocacy, drawing from non-liberal traditions. She dares us to venture beyond the fishbowl by charting several escape routes offered by alternative non-western, counter-hegemonic epistemologies of freedom which prioritize rigorous self-inquiry, non-dualistic perspectives and inclusive dialogue.’ -- Dianne Otto, Melbourne Law School, Australia‘Ratna Kapur is one of the most important international legal scholars working today. Gender, Alterity and Human Rights is brilliant, provocative and ground breaking – I cannot think of any other book published today that centers radically ‘other’ approaches to political and ethical agency as the epistemological anchor for analysis of international law. She advances this ambitious new ground by showing how dominant approaches to human rights and feminism are themselves invested in political subjectivities and agendas that seek to redeem international law and authorize global governance. With theoretical rigor and a radical sensibility, she quarries through material as diverse as human rights case law and Sufi poetry to excavate the plurality of ways in which freedom is envisioned, challenged and inhabited.’ -- Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Prologue Introduction 1. Liberal Freedom in a Fishbowl 2. Precarious Desires and the Pursuit of Rights 3. Freedom, Women’s Rights and the Rise of the Sexual Security Regime 4. Alterity, Gender Equality and the Veil 5. Despair, Redemption and the Turn Away from Human Rights 6. Seeking Freedom through Alternative Registers 7. Freedom from the Fishbowl Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest
Book SynopsisFresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries. There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of coverture applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of property. Detailed studies of legal material from medieval and early modern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ghent, Sweden,Norway and Germany enable a better sense of how, when, and where the legal principle of coverture was applied and what effect this had on the lives of married women. Key threads running through the book are married women'srights regarding the possession of moveable and immovable property, marital property at the dissolution of marriage, married women's capacity to act as agents of their husbands and households in transacting business, and married women's interactions with the courts. Cordelia Beattie is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh; Matthew Frank Stevens is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University Contributors: Lars Ivar Hansen, Shennan Hutton, Lizabeth Johnson, Gillian Kenny, Mia Korpiola, Miriam Muller, S.C. Ogilvie, Alexandra Shepard, Cathryn Spence.Trade ReviewAn important starting point for anyone who wants to understand regional variation, chronological change, and the relation between learned law and pragmatic legal processes relating to women and their economic roles. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *A nuanced, engaging volume, well worth the attention of economic, social, and gender historians alike. * . *This excellent collection is important reading for any student interested in the intersections of legal identity, marital status, and economic power. * MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM *This collection makes an outstanding contribution to the field. * WOMEN'S HISTORY REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Uncovering Married Women - Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank Stevens When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland - Gillian Kenny Inheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway - Lars Ivar Hansen Spousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden - Mia Korpiola Married Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales - Lizabeth Johnson Peasant Women, Agency and Status in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century England: Some Reconsiderations - Miriam Muller London's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas - Matthew Frank Stevens Married Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England - Cordelia Beattie Property, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent - Shennan Hutton 'For His Interest'?: Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland - Cathryn Spence The Worth of Married Women Witnesses in the English Church Courts, 1550-1730 - Alexandra Shepard Married Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany - Sheilagh Ogilvie
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Les Presses de l'Universite Laval Too Few to Matter: Institutional Inertia in the
Book SynopsisIn 2010, Correctional Service Canada closed two decrepit prisons designated for men. Hoping to reduce prison overcrowding, the Québec government rented one of them—the Leclerc prison—and transferred approximately 250 male prisoners serving a provincial sentence. One year later, Québec closed its main provincial prison designated for women, and swiftly transferred the women to the Leclerc prison where men were housed. At Leclerc, women endured dehumanizing conditions condemned by scholars, advocacy groups, and the media as violations of basic human rights. Challenging living conditions enduring at the Leclerc prison suggest that women’s imprisonment is resisting significant change despite studies and governmental inquiries since the middle of the 19th century having documented the dire situation, and the specific needs of imprisoned women in Canada. This book proposes a critical rereading of women’s penal history in Canada and argues that policies and practices regarding women’s prisoning are path dependent and tend to follow a locked-in trajectory.
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Taylor & Francis SexPositive Criminology New Directions in Critical Criminology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Personal Identity and the European Court of Human
Book SynopsisIn this new and burgeoning field in legal and human rights thought, this edited collection explores, by reference to applied philosophy and case law, how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has developed and presented a right to personal identity, largely through interpretation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Divided into three parts, the collection interrogates: firstly, the construction of personal identity rights at the ECtHR; secondly, whose identity rights are protected; and thirdly, the limits of identity rights. The collection is the first in the Routledge Studies in Law and Humanity series. Contributions from nine leading and emerging legal scholars from the UK, Ireland and continental Europe explore how the right has developed, rights to identity and marriage, LGBTI+, persons with disabilities, religious and cultural issues and critical perspectives on the social construction and framing of the right. The collection is primarilyTable of ContentsTable of Contents; Foreword by Carl Stychin; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction, Jill Marshall; Part I: Constructing Personal Identity Rights at the European Court of Human Rights; 1. An Overview of the Development of the Right to Personal Identity at the European Court of Human Rights, Jill Marshall; 2. Narratives of Absence: on the construction and limits of the category of personal identity in European Human Rights Law, Sarah Trotter; 3. Privacy and the Social Construction of Identity: An Interrelated History, Paul Friedl; Part II: Protecting Whose Identity Rights? 4. Disabled Identity and the Ability to Make Decisions, Janos Fiala-Butora; 5. LGBTI People, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights, Paul Johnson; 6. Marriage, Identity and the European Court of Human Rights, David Feldman; 7. What to do with the ‘Buried Giant’? – Collective Historical Memory and Identity in the Freedom of Expression Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights, Tom Lewis and Peter Cumper; Part III: Limits of Identity Rights? 8. A ‘Personal’ Right to a Decolonised University Curriculum? Dr Patricia Tuitt; 9. Foucault on the limits of identity rights, Dr Deirdre McGowan;
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