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  • Same-Sex Marriageby Kevin Alderson

    Insomniac Press 2004; US$ 16.95

    In 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 Repositionedby Belinda Brooks-Gordon; Loraine Gelsthorpe; Martin Johnson

    Hart Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 68.40

    Despite 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 Lawby Judith E. Tucker

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00

    An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender. more...

  • Sex, Violence and Crimeby Adrian Howe

    Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 63.95

    What 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 Lawsby Madhu Purnima Kishwar

    SAGE India 2008; US$ 34.95

    Authored 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 Lawby Rosemary Hunter

    Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 91.80

    The 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, 1900-1960by Lisa Lindquist Dorr

    The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 73.50

    For 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 Lawby Åsa Gunnarsson; Eva-Maria Svensson; Margaret Davies

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95

    This 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 Contractariansby Janice Richardson

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95

    Analysing 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 Decisionsby Janet Halley

    Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 29.95

    Is 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...