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  • Law, Gender, and Injustice

    A Legal History of U.S. Women

    by Joan Hoff ...
    A groundbreaking analysis of how gendered oppression is written into the American legal systemLaw, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Woman is a landmark study of how women remain second-class citizens under the current legal system. In this widely acclaimed book, Joan Hoff questions whether the continued pursuit of equality based on a one-size-fits-all vision of traditional individual ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Hybrid

    Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law

    by Ruth Colker ...
    Series series Critical America
    The United States, and the West in general, has always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either gay or straight, male or female, white or not, disabled or not.In recent years, however, America seems increasingly aware of those who defy such easy categorization. Yet, rather than being welcomed for the challenges that they offer, people living the gap are often ostracized by all the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Privilege Revealed

    How Invisible Preference Undermines America

    Series Book 48 - Critical America
    An in-depth examination of the different forms of privilege perpetuating inequality within American societyIn this era of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, inequality is at the forefront of American thought like never before. Yet many of the systems of privilege upholding the status quo remain unchanged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights

    An essential examination of the woman suffrage movementIn recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it.This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman suffrage and includes two new essays. The ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom

    Series Book 6 - Critical America
    Rape law reform has been a stunning failure. Defense lawyers persist in emphasizing victims' characters over defendants' behavior. Reform's goals of increasing rape report and conviction rates have generally not been achieved. In Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom, Andrew Taslitz locates the cause of rape reform failure in the language lawyers use, and the cultural stories upon which they draw ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies

    Women and the Obligations of Citizenship

    This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber's analysis reaches from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," up to the present, when men and women, regardless of their ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Unbending Gender

    Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It

    by Joan Williams ...
    In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sex without Consent

    Rape and Sexual Coercion in America

    Edited by Merril D. Smith ...
    A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to "make a woman of her." An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home. In another case, a college frat party is the scene of the crime. Although these incidents appear similar to accounts one can read in the newspapers almost any day in the United States, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Clinical Aspects of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination

    Psychological Consequences and Treatment Interventions

    This book addresses the psychological impact of sexual harassment and gender discrimination from both a clinical and theoretical perspective, whereas previous literature on the topic has emphasized legal and employment consequences. To start, Lenhart provides a comprehensive summary and integration of existing literature and discusses relevant aspects of the workplace and legal environments. The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Gender Myths v. Working Realities

    Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law

    Both the courts and the public seem confused about sexual harassment—what it is, how it functions, and what sorts of behaviors are actionable in court. Theresa M. Beiner contrasts perspectives from social scientists on the realities of workplace sexual harassment with the current legal standard. When it comes to sexual harassment law, all too often courts (and employers) are left in the difficult ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Case for Gay Rights

    From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond

    As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion. In response, David Richards, a widely respected legal scholar and long-time champion of gay rights, reflects upon the constitutional and democratic principles—relating to privacy, intimate life, free speech, tolerance, and conscience ... Read more

    $35.99 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

  • White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960

    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 a careful study of legal records, newspapers, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Legal Feminism

    Activism, Lawyering, and Legal Theory

    by Ann Scales ...
    In the late 1970s, feminist scholars and activists joined together to build a movement aimed at bringing feminist theory and experiences to the practice and teaching of American law. Since then, the feminist jurisprudence movement has taken root, with courts and legislatures addressing matters of sex and gender inequality, and law schools employing feminist and post-feminist theory in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Calling for Change

    Women, Law, and the Legal Profession

    Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Transgender Rights

    "Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library JournalOver the past three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant victories. Discrimination has been ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • No Seat at the Table

    How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom

    Series Book 26 - Critical America
    Women are completing MBA and Law degrees in record high numbers, but their struggle to attain director positions in corporate America continues. Although explanations for this disconnect abound, neither career counselors nor scholars have paid enough attention to the role that corporate governance plays in maintaining the gender gap in America's executive quarters.Mining corporate governance ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Women and Immigration Law

    New Variations on Classical Feminist Themes

    This book examines immigration law from a gender perspective. It shows how immigration law situates gender conflicts outside the national order, projecting them onto non-western countries, exotic cultures, clandestine labour and criminal organizations. In doing so, immigration law sustains the illusion that gender conflicts have moved beyond the pale of European experience. In fact, the classical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Leaving Women Behind

    Modern Families, Outdated Laws

    Paternalistic federal laws and regulations thwart initiatives to grant women the same economic liberties as men. Why have federal institutions overseeing employment, employee benefits, childcare, taxation, health care, education, retirement, and social security adopted such a warped and antiquated perspective of traditional family life? And what can be done about it? Leaving Women Behind answers ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity

    by Vanessa Baird ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender—varies significantly in different parts of the world. In some countries, equal rights have been achieved and progress is being made against discrimination; in others, being gay still incurs the death penalty.This guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • La declaración universal de Derechos Humanos

    La aprobación de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos el 10 de diciembre de 1948 ha constituido uno de los momentos clave en la historia del siglo XX. En el 60Aniversario de dicha aprobación queremos rendir un más que merecido homenaje a dicho documento. En esta modesta publicación analizamos el proceso de internacionalización de los derechos humanos que se ha vivido desde comienzos ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enslaved Daughters

    Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights

    This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband. This lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking

    Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm. This important book examines the pathbreaking legal process that has ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Courting Change

    Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law

    Winner of the 2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship AwardA lesbian couple rears a child together and, after the biological mother dies, the surviving partner loses custody to the child’s estranged biological father. Four days later, in a different court, judges rule on the side of the partner, because they feel the child relied on the woman as a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD