1st Edition

Gender, Sexualities and Law

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

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, persons and the legal profession, along with the gender bias of legal outcomes, has been a... Read more

Part 1: Theory, Law and Sex  1. Women and the Cast of Legal Persons, Ngaire Naffine  2. De/Sexing the Woman Lawyer, Rosemary Hunter  3. ‘Sexing the Matrix’: Embodiment, Disembodiment and the Law: Towards the Re-Gendering of Legal Personality?, Anna Grear  4. Vulnerability, Equality and the Human Condition, Martha A. Fineman  Part 2: Representations, Law and Sex  5. The ‘Gendered Company’ Revisited, Alice Belcher  6. The Public Sex of the Judiciary: The Appearance of the Irrelevant and the Invisible, Leslie J. Moran  7. Sexuality, Gender and Social Cognition: Lesbian and Gay Identity in Judicial Decision-Making, Todd Brower  8. The Gendered Dock: Reflections on the Impact of Gender Stereotyping in the Criminal Justice System, Judith Rowbotham  Part 3: Violence, Law and Sex  9. ‘She Never Screamed out and Complained’: Recognising Gender in Legal and Media Representations of Rape, Kim Stevenson  10. Gendering Rape: Social Attitudes towards Male and Female Rape, Phil N.S. Rumney and Natalia Hanley  11. When Hate is not Enough: Tackling Homophobic Violence, Iain McDonald  12. The Legal Construction of Domestic Violence: ‘Unmasking’ a Private Problem, Mandy Burton  Part 4: International Violence, Law and Sex  13. Criminalization or Protection? Tensions in the Construction of Prevention Strategies Concerning Trafficking for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation, Anna Carline  14. A Woman’s Honour and a Nation’s Shame: ‘Honour Killings’ in Pakistan, Shilan Shah-Davis  15. Supranational Criminal Prosecution of Sexual Violence, Anne-Marie de Brouwer  Part 5: Reproduction, Law and Sex  16. The Strange Case of the Invisible Woman in Abortion Law Reform, Kate Gleeson  17. Third-Wave Feminism, Motherhood and the Future of Feminist Legal Theory, Bridget J. Crawford  18. ‘Shall I be Mother?’ Reproductive Autonomy, Feminism and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, Rachel Anne Fenton, D. Jane V. Rees and Sue Heenan  19. Motherhood and Autonomy in a Shared Parenting Climate, Susan B. Boyd  Part 6: Relationships, Law and Sex  20. A very British Compromise? Civil Partnerships, Liberalism by Stealth and the Fallacies of Neo-Liberalism, Jeffrey Weeks  21. Attitudes to Same-Sex Marriage in South African Muslim Communities: An Exploratory Study, Elsje Bonthuys and Natasha Erlank  22. Taking ‘Sex’ out of Marriage in the EU, Jackie Jones  23. From Russia (and Elsewhere) with Love: Mail Order Brides, Jennifer Marchbank

Biography

Jackie Jones, Anna Grear and Rachel Anne Fenton are based at the University of Western England; Kim Stevenson teaches at the University of Plymouth.