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Same-Sex Marriage
Insomniac Press 2004; US$ 16.95In the past three years, Canada has witnessed landmark court rulings in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec making it legal for gay men and lesbian women to marry. Legislation in the Netherlands and Belgium have also extended marriage to same-sex couples. Legal challenges before the U.S. courts in Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon and California have had... more...
Sexuality Repositioned
Hart Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 68.40Despite the advent of new sexual knowledges,new perspectives, new experiences even, we do not routinely or habitually reflect on the interface of social and legal dimensions of sexuality. Rather, the law is periodically reviewed in response to some crisis or campaign. The idea for the book thus came from awareness that it is important to explore some... more...
Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender. more...
Sex, Violence and Crime
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 63.95What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what happens when you make men?s violence against women the subject of a conversation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all hell breaks loose. Adrian Howe explores some of the ways in which this persistent and pervasive form of violence has been named and unnamed... more...
Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws
SAGE India 2008; US$ 34.95Authored by a pioneer of the contemporary women`s rights movement in India, this. book combines insights gathered from a deep engagement with the lives and coping. strategies of ordinary women. With first hand knowledge of the workings of legislation. and the law enforcement machinery in India, the author analyses why laws enacted. for the ostensible... more...
Rethinking Equality Projects in Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 91.80The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for wo more...
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 73.50For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Lisa Lindquist Dorr challenges this view with... more...
Exploiting the Limits of Law
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95This book represents a challenge to both Swedish dogmatism and feminist pessimism and, more generally, to the concept of the limits of law: it includes essays which consider the issue of law's limits in a purely theoretical way, as well as essays which investigate the changing legal and policy environments in a more practical setting. more...
The Classic Social Contractarians
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95Analysing the social contract theorists through the lens of contemporary feminist philosophy, this work focuses on the relationship between the 'self' and the law and examines how social contractarians have viewed this relationship. more...
Split Decisions
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 29.95Is it time to take a break from feminism? In this pathbreaking book, Janet Halley reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. She argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. To see crucial dimensions of sexuality that feminism... more...









