1st Edition
Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law
1: Introduction, Janice Richardson and Erika Rackley; 2: Duty of Care and Ethic of Care: Irreconcilable Difference?, Jenny Steele; 3. Endgame: On Negligence and Reparation for Harm, Nicky Priaulx; 4.Pollution and the Body Boundary: Exploring Scale, Gender and Remedy, Dayna Nadine Scott; 5. Trust in the police? Police Negligence, Invisible Immunity and Disadvantaged Claimants, Kirsty Horsey; 6. Knowledge and Power in Drug Testing and Promotion: The Adverse Effects on Women’s Health, Patricia Peppin; 7. The Standard of Care in Medical Negligence– Still Reasonably Troublesome?, José Miola; 8. The Sexual Politics of Privacy Law and Theory, Janice Richardson; 9. Tort claims for Rape: More Trials, Fewer Tribulations?, Nikki Godden; 10. Sexual Wrongdoing: Do the Remedies Reflect the Wrong?, Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey; 11. Damaging Stereotypes: the Return of ‘Hoovering as a Hobby’, Reg Graycar
Biography
Janice Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Monash. She is author of: Selves, Persons, Individuals: Philosophical Perspectives on Women and Legal Obligations (Aldershot: Ashgate: 2004) and The Classic Social Contractarians: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Feminist Philosophy and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate: 2009) and is co-editor, with Ralph Sandland, of Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2000).
Erika Rackley is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School, Durham University, UK. She is co-author of Tort Law (OUP, 2nd edn, 2011) and co-editor of Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice (Hart, 2010).
