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  • #MeToo and Beyond

    Perspectives on a Global Movement

    #NiUnaMenos#Aufschrei#LoSHABefore #MeToo became a massive global movement, these were the hashtags that represented activists from Ukraine to Peru who demanded accountability for the sexual violence and racism, xenophobia, and misogyny inflicted on women, transgender people, and girls. Led by activists such as Tarana Burke, who popularized the phrase "me too," these movements provided a call to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 'Innocent Women and Children'

    Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians

    Series series Gender in a Global/Local World
    Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. Providing a wealth of ground-breaking case studies, the author argues that in order to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • (Un)thinking Citizenship

    Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa

    Edited by Amanda Gouws ...
    Series series Gender in a Global/Local World
    The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of rights-claiming, issues of institutional representation, bodily integrity in the face of violence, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 37 Words

    Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination

    A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”—Title IX’s first ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Better Justice?

    Community Programs for Criminalized Women

    by Amanda Nelund ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Women are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. While feminist criminologists advocate for community alternatives to imprisonment, they often do so without offering a corresponding analysis of existing community programs. And critical criminologists rarely consider gender in their assessment of the options.A Better Justice? brings these criminological strands together in a ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • A Class by Herself

    Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s

    by Nancy Woloch ...
    Series Book 126 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Comprehensive Guide to Intersex

    This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.Covering a wide variety of topics in an easy-to-read way, the book explores what intersex is, what it is not, a detailed overview of its 40 or so different ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality

    Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented by the necessary financial and human resources to make the law effective. Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, the achievement of legal advances for women—at either the international or national levels—is particularly difficult ... Read more

    $93.99 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

  • A Global Casebook of Sexual Homicide

    This book comprehensively discusses 13 infamous cases of serial and non-serial sexual homicide committed around the globe in the past four decades (1974–2010). Offering a psycho-criminological perspective, it analyzes the cases theoretically (i.e., contributing and precipitating factors, and offender typology) and considers the practical implications (i.e., investigative and crime-preventive ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A History of Divorce Law

    Reform in England from the Victorian to Interwar Years

    by Henry Kha ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years. The legal history of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 is at the heart of the book. The Act had a transformative impact on English law and society ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Legacy of Discrimination

    The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action

    A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective. Since 1961, the issue of "affirmative action" has been a hotly contested legal and political issue. Intended to address our nation's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge

    by Harry Ognall ...
    A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both in Britain and abroad.Among many cases as a QC, he prosecuted Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • A Restorative Approach to Family Violence

    Feminist Kin-Making

    by Joan Pennell ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence. This conferencing model, called family group decision making, was applied by three diverse Canadian communities—Inuit, rural, and urban—to the benefit of child and adult family members. Narrative inquiry identifies how engaging the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A violência de gênero, o Ministério Público e a aplicação da Lei Maria da Penha

    uma análise na cidade de São Luís/MA

    A pesquisa, A VIOLÊNCIA DE GÊNERO, O MINISTÉRIO PÚBLICO E A APLICAÇÃO DA LEI MARIA DA PENHA: uma análise na cidade de São Luís/MA, objetiva discutir como o Ministério Público aplica esta armadura legal, expressa pela supracitada lei, na capital maranhense, no enfrentamento à violência doméstica e familiar contra as mulheres, procurando, assim, apreender suas possibilidades e desafios. Concebe a ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Accidental Feminism

    Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite

    Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomesIn India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry and partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to new ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Acoso y justicia

    Los movimientos para reivindicar los derechos de las mujeres —el #MeToo entre ellos— han posicionado en la agenda pública la discusión sobre el acoso sexual. Estos movimientos y sus implicaciones, sin embargo, tienen algunas aristas que vale la pena examinar. Marta Lamas analiza las relaciones interpersonales entre mujeres y hombres, el proceso de normalización de diferentes formas de violencia de ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Advancing Sexual Consent and Agential Practices in Higher Education

    Toward a New Community of Practice

    This book provides an in-depth exploration of sexual consent communication and negotiation practices among students and efforts to prevent and respond to sexual coercion and violence within the context of North American higher education institutions.Delving into the complexities of communication around sexual consent, it examines how factors such as identity, early learning experiences, societal ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • After Legal Equality

    Family, Sex, Kinship

    Edited by Robert Leckey ...
    Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line. Once judgment is granted or a law is passed, coalitions disband and life goes on in a new state of equality. Policy makers too may assume that a troublesome file is now closed. This collection arises from the urgent sense that law reforms driven by equality call for fresh lines of inquiry. In unintended ways, reforms may ... Read more

    $64.99 USD $44.99 USD

  • After Misogyny

    How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

    by Julie C. Suk ...
    A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change beyond litigation in the courts.Just as racism is embedded in the legal system, so is misogyny—even after the law proclaims gender equality and criminally punishes violence against women. In After Misogyny, Julie C. Suk shows that misogyny lies not in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • After Roe

    The Lost History of the Abortion Debate

    by Mary Ziegler ...
    Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Ageing, Gender and Family Law

    This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has, then, been largely neglected; addressing this neglect, the current volume explores how the issues ... Read more

    $54.99 USD