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Book SynopsisGender is an increasingly prominent aspect of the contemporary debate and discourse around law. It is curious that gender, while figuring so centrally in the construction and organization of social life, is nevertheless barely visible in the conceptual armoury of law. In the jurisprudential imagination law is gender-less; as a result legal scholarship for the most part continues to hold on to the view that gender plays little or no role in the conceptual make-up, normative grounding, or categorical ordering of law. The official position is that the idea of law and legal fundamentals are, or at least ought to be, gender-independent.This book challenges these long-held assumptions. Exploring the relationship between law and gender it takes gender as a core concept and analytical tool and examines how law is conceptualized, organized, articulated, and legitimated. How can gender be given meaning in legal texts, doctrine, and practices, and how can gender operate within the law while simul
Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious and well-constructed book that confidently straddles feminist legal theory, socio-legal jurisprudence, and legal positivism. It offers a fresh take on the relationship between gender and law which chimes with convention, in order to challenge it ... The book is highly readable, thought-provoking, and well executed. * L J B Hayes, Journal of Law and Society *
Table of Contents1. The Incongruity of Law and Gender ; 2. A Tale of Two Cases ; 3. Theories of Law and Gender ; 4. Transmissions Through Time: Gender, Law and History ; 5. Gender and the Jurisprudential Imagination ; 6. The Siren Call of Legal Reason ; 7. Concluding Thoughts ; Bibliography
