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1. Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law

   Edited by Janice Richardson, Erika Rackley

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law. Ten original essays written by feminist legal scholars from the UK, US, Canada and Australia encompass a range of ways of thinking about women, tort law and feminism. The collection provides a fresh...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Feminist Perspectives on Land Law

   Edited by Hilary Lim, Anne Bottomley

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. The authors...

   Published March 28th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Feminist Perspectives on Family Law

   Edited by Alison Diduck, Katherine O'Donovan

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. It is deliberately broad in scope, as it takes the view that family law cannot be defined in a traditional way. In addition to issues of long-standing concern for...

   Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law

   Edited by Linda Mulcahy, Sally Wheeler

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   The law of contract is ripe for feminist analysis. Despite increasing calls for the re-conceptualisation of neo-classical ways of thinking, feminist perspectives on contract tend to be marginalised in mainstream textbooks. This edited collection questions the assumptions made in such works and the...

   Published April 28th 2005 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Feminist Perspectives on Equity and Trusts

   Edited by Susan Scott-Hunt, Hilary Lim

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   Previous collections of essays on equity and trusts law have focused on doctrinal issues, only occasionally giving a policy gloss or suggestion of social context and impact. Although a critical approach can be glimpsed in journal articles and student texts, this collection of essays draws together...

   Published January 15th 2001 by Routledge-Cavendish
6. Feminist Perspectives on Child Law

   Edited by Jo Bridgeman, Daniel Monk

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   Feminist Perspectives on Child Law is a collection of interdisciplinary socio-legal essays which explore the complex relationship between childhood,gender and the law. Drawing on a wide range of feminist and critical theories and empirical research, these original essays challenge the gender...

   Published December 10th 2000 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory

   Edited by Janice Richardson, Ralph Sandland

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   What is the link between the way in which women are viewed as an aberration within law - such that pregnant women initially had to be compared with sick men to claim unfair dismissal - and the view of women as monstrous within philosophy? This book uses the failure of women to fit within male...

   Published November 19th 2000 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law

   By Lois Bibbings, Donald Nicolson

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   Criminal law has traditionally been taught and analysed as if the gender of criminals and their victims is irrelevant. It has also been taught and analysed as if criminal law doctrine has no connection with questions of criminalisation,crime detection, decisions to charge and prosecute, lawyers...

   Published November 7th 2000 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Feminist Perspectives on Public Law

   Edited by Susan Millns, Noel Whitty

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   Public law scholarship in the UK is fracturing. Old certainties have been challenged by radical shifts in the mode of governance, an evolving European constitutionalism, the search for values in public law, and the New Labour constitutional reform agenda. The core concepts and the future role of...

   Published June 9th 1999 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. Feminist Perspectives on Employment Law

    By Anne Morris, Thérèse O'Donnell

    Series: Feminist Perspectives

    Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made....

    Published April 29th 1999 by Routledge-Cavendish