The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for women, feminists have come to challenge the usefulness of equality as a concept, a particular definition, or a basis for strategising. The papers in this collection reflect these concerns, primarily in the context of English-speaking, common law cultures. Collectively, the papers analyse a range of equality projects across a number of areas of public and private law, considering both competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it. In taking stock across a century and a half and around the globe, the book illustrates the range of ways in which equality projects in law have been challenged by, and remain a challenge for, feminism.
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This book analyses a range of equality projects across public and private law, considering competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it.
Introduction: Feminism and Equality Rosemary Hunter Part I Equality Projects in Law Reform 1. The Married Women’s Property Acts: Equality Was Not the Issue Rosemary Auchmuty 2. The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts Heather Douglas 3. Is Equality Enough? Fathers’ Rights and Women’s Rights Advocacy Susan B Boyd 4. Alternatives to Equality Rosemary Hunter Part II Constitutional Equality Projects 5. Equality Rights: What’s Wrong? Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan 6. Haunting (In)equalities Karin Van Marle Part III Personal Equality Projects in the Legal Profession 7. Gender Equality and Legal Professionalism: Challenges for the First Women Lawyers Mary Jane Mossman 8. That Obscure Object of Desire: Sex Equality and the Legal Profession Hilary Sommerlad
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...a good primer to a rich set of theoretical arguments and debates, providing a solid overview, not just of international legal development through a feminist lens, but also feminist thought more generally. The extensive footnotes will be prized by law and APD scholars, as well as those looking at projects relating to the expression of gender in institutions more broadly. The collection represents a great effort by Hunter and her colleagues.
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Original research and theory on the relations between law, legal institutions and social processes. The volumes in this series are eclectic in their disciplines, methodologies and theoretical perspectives, but they all share a strong comparative emphasis. The volumes originate in workshops hosted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Founding Series Editors: William L F Felstiner Eve Darian-Smith Editorial Board: Carlos Lugo, Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico Jacek Kurczewski, Warsaw University, Poland Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany Ulrike Schultz, Fern Universität, Germany
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781841138398
Publisert
2008-07-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Hart Publishing
Vekt
332 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
204

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Rosemary Hunter is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent, Canterbury, the Academic Editor of Feminist Legal Studies, and Chair of the RCSL Working Group on Gender and Law.