Socio-Legal Studies - Gender & Sexuality Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender, Sexualities and Law

   Edited by Jackie Jones, Anna Grear, Rachel Anne Fenton, Kim Stevenson

   Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues – both topical and controversial – raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law,...

   Published April 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Regulating Sexuality

   Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives

   By Rosie Harding

   Series: Social Justice

   Winner of the 2011 SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives explores the impact that recent seismic shifts in the legal landscape have had for lesbians and gay men. The last decade has been a time of extensive change in the legal regulation...

   Published March 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sex, Crime and Morality

   By Sharon Hayes, Belinda Carpenter, Angela Dwyer

   Over the last few decades, there has been a marked increase in media and debate surrounding a specific group of offences in modern Democratic nations which bear the brunt of the label ‘crimes against morality’. Included within this group are offences related to prostitution and pornography,...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Willan
5. Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire

   Edited by Robert Leckey, Kim Brooks

   Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Law on the Use of Force

   A Feminist Analysis

   By Gina Heathcote

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   The book presents the international laws on the use of force whilst demonstrating the unique insight a feminist analysis offers this central area of international law. The book highlights key conceptual barriers to the enhanced application of the law of the use of force, and develops international...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Regulating the International Movement of Women

   From Protection to Control

   Edited by Sharron FitzGerald

   The question of how to conceptualize the relationships between governments and the everyday lives of women has long been the focus of attention among feminists. Feminist scholarship critiques women’s lives, experiences and gender inequality in a variety of contexts. In this age of increased...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Anarchism & Sexuality

   Ethics, Relationships and Power

   Edited by Jamie Heckert, Richard Cleminson

   Series: Social Justice

   Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality. Both in style and in content, it is conceived as a book that aims to question, subvert and...

   Published April 18th 2011 by Routledge
9. Rethinking Rape Law

   International and Comparative Perspectives

   Edited by Clare McGlynn, Vanessa E. Munro

   Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions. In a context in which there has been considerable legal reform of sexual offences, Rethinking Rape Law engages with developments spanning national, regional and...

   Published March 7th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. Rights, Gender and Family Law

    Edited by Julie Wallbank, Shazia Choudhry, Jonathan Herring

    There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and Family Law addresses the implications of...

    Published August 26th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish