Gender & the law books

1373 books were found.

Selves, Persons, Individuals: Philosophical Perspectives on Women and Legal Obligations

Selves, Persons, Individuals: Philosophical Perspectives...

Author: Janice Richardson
ISBN: 9781138277489
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Whilst feminist philosophy has frequently engaged with political theory, this original book instead considers legal...  Read More >>

Gender Injustice: An International Comparative Analysis of Equality in Employment

Gender Injustice: An International Comparative Analysis...

Author: Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter
ISBN: 9781138277847
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Gender equality and the importance of the law in combating discrimination are issues explored by this insightful...  Read More >>

Group Representation, Feminist Theory, and the Promise of Justice

Group Representation, Feminist Theory, and the Promise...

Author: Angela D. Ledford
ISBN: 9781138278813
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This new study addresses various manifestations of social class and cultural difference as well as their implications...  Read More >>

Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility: A Comparative Perspective

Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility:...

Author: Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory University, USA) ,  Titti Mattsson
ISBN: 9781472489074
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary...  Read More >>

Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility: A Comparative Perspective

Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility:...

Author: Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory University, USA) ,  Titti Mattsson
ISBN: 9781472489043
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary...  Read More >>

The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority: The 'Trials' of Same-Sex Desire

The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority: The...

Author: Aleardo Zanghellini (University of Reading, UK)
ISBN: 9781138241695
Format: Paperback
$69.99

While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state’s regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in...  Read More >>

Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy

Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy

Author: Nikita Dhawan ,  Antke Engel
ISBN: 9781138241824
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Maids, Wives, and Widows: The Law of the Land and of the Various States as It Affects Women

Maids, Wives, and Widows: The Law of the Land and of...

Author: Rose Falls Bres ,  Mary Wood
ISBN: 9781540848970
Format: Paperback
$29.01

From the FOREWORD. When <i>The Law and the Woman</i>, a book dealing with the legal conditions affecting women...  Read More >>

Discretion, Discrimination and the Rule of Law: Reforming Rape Sentencing in India

Discretion, Discrimination and the Rule of Law: Reforming...

Author: Mrinal Satish
ISBN: 9781107135628
Format: Hardback
$201.80

This book addresses and analyses the rape sentencing regime in India, and argues that rape myths and stereotypes...  Read More >>

Solving Statelessness

Solving Statelessness

Author: Laura Van Waas ,  Melanie J Khanna
ISBN: 9789462403468
Format: Paperback
$158.40

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Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce

Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered...

Author: Susan Bisom-Rapp ,  Malcolm Sargeant (Middlesex University, London)
ISBN: 9781107123533
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This book fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing...  Read More >>

Votes and More for Women: Suffrage and After in Connecticut

Votes and More for Women: Suffrage and After in Connecticut...

Author: Carole Nichols
ISBN: 9781138986862
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This fascinating book demonstrates the diversity of Connecticut's women's feminist activities in pre- and post-suffrage...  Read More >>

Social Taboo: A Male Victim of Domestic Violence Speaks

Social Taboo: A Male Victim of Domestic Violence Speaks...

Author: Richard Cassalata
ISBN: 9781540467300
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This hard hitting book describes domestic violence from the male victim's point of view. Male victims of domestic...  Read More >>

Gender and Judicial Education: Raising Gender Awareness of Judges

Gender and Judicial Education: Raising Gender Awareness...

Author: Ulrike Schultz ,  T. Brettel Dawson (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138697409
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Judicial Education has greatly expanded in common law countries in the past 25 years. More recently it has become...  Read More >>

Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare: Feminist Political Economy, Primitive Accumulation and the Law

Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare: Feminist...

Author: Adrienne Roberts
ISBN: 9781138678422
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes...  Read More >>

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity...

Author: Anne Hellum (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781138698505
Format: Hardback
$284.00

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the...  Read More >>

Re-visiting and legalizing 'anti-gay' laws in Nigeria

Re-visiting and legalizing 'anti-gay' laws in Nigeria...

Author: Gbenga Odugbemi
ISBN: 9781539414490
Format: Paperback
$21.12

A book discussing the relevant laws bordering on 'anti-gay' laws in Nigeria. The book trace the existing previous...  Read More >>

Trans-Harming Care: Comparing the Experiences of Latin American, Caribbean and Dutch Transwomen with the Dutch Healthcare System

Trans-Harming Care: Comparing the Experiences of Latin...

Author: Lene Swetzer
ISBN: 9789462403260
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Although transgender people have received more and more attention in recent years, their experiences in everyday...  Read More >>

Women and Law in India

Women and Law in India

Author: Flavia Agnes ,  Sudhir Chandra
ISBN: 9780199467211
Format: Paperback
$82.95

This omnibus brings together three significant works on Gender equality which comprehensively analyse key issues...  Read More >>

The Contradiction in Disability Law: Selective Abortions and Rights

The Contradiction in Disability Law: Selective Abortions...

Author: Smitha Nizar (, Assistant Professor at Alliance School of Law, Alliance University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India)
ISBN: 9780199466658
Format: Hardback
$88.95

While the Indian legislation on prenatal tests, the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, prohibits the use...  Read More >>

Fish Raincoats: A Woman Lawyer's Life

Fish Raincoats: A Woman Lawyer's Life

Author: Barbara Babcock
ISBN: 9781610273572
Format: Hardback
$85.36

The life and times of a trailblazing feminist in American law. The first female Stanford law professor was also...  Read More >>

Fish Raincoats: A Woman Lawyer's Life

Fish Raincoats: A Woman Lawyer's Life

Author: Barbara Babcock
ISBN: 9781610273596
Format: Paperback
$54.31

The life and times of a trailblazing feminist in American law. The first female Stanford law professor was also...  Read More >>

Gendering European Working Time Regimes: The Working Time Directive and the Case of Poland

Gendering European Working Time Regimes: The Working...

Author: Ania Zbyszewska (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781107121256
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Ania Zbyszewska's feminist, socio-legal study of the European working time regime examines its historical development...  Read More >>

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