1st Edition
The New Civil Rights Research A Constitutive Approach
By Laura Beth Nielsen
Copyright 2006
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book draws on narratives of individuals from a variety of contexts to provide a rich and contextualized understanding of what happens when law interacts with other competing systems or forms of social organization. By privileging the real world experiences of... Read more
Contents: Preface: On legal rights consciousness: a challenging analytical tradition, Michael Mccann. Introduction: a constitutive perspective of rights, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen.Part I Rights in Practice: 'That's Right': Truth, justice, and the legal consciousness of educational activists, Idit Kostiner; Who manages feminist-inspired reform?: an in-depth look at Title IX coordinators, Judith Taylor; Legal consciousness and workplace rights, Catherine Albiston; LGBT family rights, legal consciousness, and the dilemma of difference, Kimberly D. Richman; Consciousness in context: employees' views of sexual harassment grievance procedures, Anna-Maria Marshall. Part II Contested Rights: On-the-job sexual harassment: how labels enable men to discriminate through sexual harassment and exclusion, Elizabeth A. Hoffmann; The 'Seesaw Effect' from racial profiling to depolicing: toward a critical cultural theory, Frank Rudy Cooper; Keeping rights alive: the struggle for HIV infected prisoners, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Jessica Hodge.Part III The Future of Rights Research: When the saints go marching in: legal consciousness and prison experiences of conscientious objectors to military service in Israel, Hadar Aviram; Time, legal consciousness and power: the case of France's 35 work hour workweek laws, J me P‘sse; The power of place: public space and rights consciousness, Laura Beth Nielsen; Index.
Biography
Laura Beth Nielsen
