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  • Policing the Womb

    Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

    In Policing the Womb, Michele Goodwin explores how states abuse laws and infringe on rights to police women and their pregnancies. This book looks at the impact of these often arbitrary laws which can result in the punishment, incarceration, and humiliation of women, particularly poor women and women of color. Frequently based on unscientific claims of endangering a fetus, these laws allow ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Normal Life

    Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

    by Dean Spade ...
    Revised and Expanded EditionWait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • All Our Trials

    Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

    by Emily L Thuma ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation.All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Beauty Bias

    The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Trial of Tempel Anneke

    Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663

    Edited by Peter Morton ...
    The accused was Anna Roleffes, known as Tempel Anneke. She was arrested on the charge of witchcraft in June of 1663. She was found guilty and was executed on December 30th that same year. Her trial was long and involved, with many witnesses from several towns and villages. Consisting of direct translations of the trial testimony, The Trial of Tempel Anneke portrays a large and varied cast of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Private Love, Public School

    Gay Teacher Under Fire

    Gerry Crane had hit his stride. A talented high school music teacher, he was loved by students and parents-lauded as one of the best teachers at his school. Gerry had reconciled his conservative religious upbringing with his identity as a gay man, finding an affirming spiritual home in a local church. He enjoyed a close circle of loving friends and had found the love of his life. In October 1995, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • About Abortion

    Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

    by Carol Sanger ...
    One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility has stifled women’s willingness to talk about ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Manifesting Justice

    Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

    by Valena Beety ...
    “Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement.” —Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, author of The Feminist War on CrimeThrough the lens of her work with the Innocence ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Equality under the Constitution

    Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment

    The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights. Judith Baer maintains, however, that in fact American judicial decisions have consistently denied ... Read more

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  • Under the Bus

    How Working Women Are Being Run Over

    “Did you think you knew the facts about women and work? Think again . . . a terrific book . . . utterly gripping.” —Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So PoorFor women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted—and at least to some extent, conquered. But the fact is that we have a two-tiered system, where some working women have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Privacy at the Margins

    Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins, Scott Skinner-Thompson highlights why privacy is of acute importance for marginalized groups. He explains how privacy can serve as a form of expressive resistance to government and corporate surveillance regimes - furthering ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • In Your Defence

    True Stories of Life and Law

    'As thrilling as a detective novel.' The Times'Powerful, moving and often captivating.' Financial Times'A compelling read for anyone who cares about fairness, justice and humanity.' ObserverThe Sunday Times bestseller___Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the vulnerable, the heartbroken and the hopeful. She must become their voi... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tainted Witness

    Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives

    by Leigh Gilmore ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Managing Rental Housing

    A Complete Reference Guide from the California Apartment Association

    Beneficial for both novices and experienced professionals, Managing Rental Housing provides practical information needed to operate your rental property efficiently, ethically, and profitably in California. Turn to Managing Rental Housing for help to successfully handle the creation, maintenance, and ending of a tenancy. This text is a key first reference when you encounter a new issue and don’t ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Thriving in an All-Boys Club

    Female Police and Their Fight for Equality

    In 1845 women entered the career of policing, and ever since it’s been an evolving history for them. There are countless stories of women shaping this career, adding particular gifts and abilities to the profession. There are, also, countless stories of their struggles to fit in and survive in this “all-boys club.”Thriving in an All Boys Club: Female Police and Their Fight for Equality examines ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Women before the court

    Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800

    Series series Gender in History
    This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women’s legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves:

    A Memoir

    Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A gay man born into an Italian American family in New Jersey, he relates in this book his own experience on how the initiation of boys into patriarchy ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Century of Votes for Women

    American Elections Since Suffrage

    How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

    A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

    Series Book 7 - Gender and Justice
    Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and violence in their homes ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Darkness Now Visible

    Patriarchy's Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

    In the fall of 2016 those promoting patriarchal ideals saw their champion Donald Trump elected president of the United States and showed us how powerful patriarchy still is in American society and culture. Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy's Resurgence and Feminist Resistance explains how patriarchy and its embrace of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and violence are starkly visible and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Great Wall of Popat

    A Journal of a Lesbian’S Adventures Getting Through Police Academy

    by Melisa Mel ...
    At a time when most women my age are planning for retirement and maybe taking up hobbies that are a little less aggressive, I decided to go into law enforcement. Okay . . . . so doing what is expected of me is not my pattern of life. I enjoy adventures and the more impossible that they seem, the harder I will tackle them. Basically, it boiled down to the fact that years before, I had missed my ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Life and Death of Latisha King

    A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia

    by Gayle Salamon ...
    Series Book 10 - Sexual Cultures
    What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol

    A Commentary

    Series series Oxford Commentaries on International Law
    This volume is the fully revised and updated version of the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. It reflects the developments during the decade following the publication of the first edition in 2012, which has also seen a notable rise in individual complaints (more than 85), ten new General ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • A Feminist Critique of Police Stops

    A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing and sexual harassment. An expert whose writing, teaching and community outreach centers on the Constitution's limits on police power, Howard Law Professor Josephine Ross, argues that our constitutional rights are a mirage. In reality, we can't say no when police seek to question or search us. Building on ... Read more

    $26.99 USD