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Book SynopsisGender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning. It asks how notions of “justice” shape gender identity and whether the legal justice system itself privileges notions of gender or is itself gendered. Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice essays contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction. Given its theme, the collection’s essays examine theoretical practices of intersectional identity at the nexus of “gender and justice” that might also relate to issues of sexuality, race, class, age, and ability.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
By Elaine Wood
Part 1: Praxis and Policy
1. Constructing Criminality: R v. Gladue, Intersectionality, and The Criminalization of Indigenous women’
By Arunita Das
2. Losing Custodial Mothers in Child Support Reform
By Laura Lane-Steele
3. Justice, Gender, and Caste: a Case for Dalit Feminist Testimonio
By Lissa Lincoln
4. Dehumanization “Because of” Sex: A Neutral Approach to the Rights of Sexual Minorities Under Multiaxial Analysis
By Shirley Lin
Part 2: Policing Bodies
5. Divorce Ruling Without Consent: Gender, Penal Law, and the Faminized Body in Nuala O’Faolain's My Dream of You
By Christin M. Mulligan
6. Gender and Justice in International Human Rights Law: The Need for an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
By Rebecca Smyth
7. “Like Cats and Dogs in the Streets”: Disability and Sexuality in the Eugenic Legal Imagination
By Lisa Beckmann
8. Victims of State Violence: Indigenous and Women of Color Sex Workers’ Interactions with Law Enforcement in Canada
By Menaka Raguparan
Part 3: Activist Politics of Resistance
9. Intersections of Gender and In(justice): Bibi Titi Mohamed and Women’s Struggles during and after Independence in Tanzania
By Catherine Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch
10. Policing and Place-Making: Trans* Persecution and Resilience
By Ava Ladner
11. Becoming Theodore: Spatial Legal Consciousness and Transgender Name Changes
By Theodore Davenport
12. The Model Speaks?: Obscenity Laws in the United States
By John Felipe Acevedo
