LAW -- Gender & the Law

Sex discrimination in uncertain times

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This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited individuals who valiantly fought for the enactment of the l…

Violence against women under international human rights law

by Edwards, Alice

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"Since the mid-1990s increasing international attention has been paid to the issue of violence against women; however, there is still no explicit international human rights treaty prohibition on violence against women and the issue remains poorly defined and understood under int…

Up against a wall: rape reform and the failure of success

by Project Muse, Corrigan, Rose

fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE

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"Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate lega…

Up against a wall: rape reform and the failure of success

by Corrigan, Rose

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"Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate lega…

Up against a wall: rape reform and the failure of success

by Corrigan, Rose

0 Type: Book

"Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate lega…

Up against a wall: rape reform and the failure of success

by Corrigan, Rose

fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE

0 Type: Book

Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal…

The legal understanding of slavery: from the historical to the contemporary

by Allain, Jean

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This title examines how slavery is understood in law, showing how the legal definition of slavery has evolved and continues to be contentious. It traces the understanding of slavery from Roman law through the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th centuries up to the modern day manifest…

Legal inversions: lesbians, gay men, and the politics of law

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An exploration of the contested field of gay and lesbian sexuality and the law.

Queer judgments: homosexuality, expression, and the courts in Cana…

by MacDougall, Bruce

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Chapter 15 of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms now states that it is unconstitutional to discriminate on the basis of race, class, or sexual orientation. Although the letter of the law has been changed with regard to homosexuality, has the spirit of the people who impleme…

Colonialism, slavery, reparations and trade: remedying the past?

by Brennan, Fernne, Packer, John

fromGlassHouse Book

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Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the 'Past'? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perp…

Exploring sentencing practice in England and Wales

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"How are offenders sentenced in England and Wales? This is the first volume to analyse the empirical and normative aspects of sentencing in the UK, exploring a range of important issues including the role of previous convictions, sentencing female offenders, offender remorse and…

Queer theory: law, culture empire

by Leckey, Robert, Brooks, Kim

fromGlassHouse Book

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Women and political representation in Canada

by Tremblay, Manon, Andrew, Caroline

fromÉtudes des femmes

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This collection of essays explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada. While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their absence from the Canadian political scene.

Brabbling women: disorderly speech and the law in early Virginia

by Snyder, Terri L.

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"Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female…

The role of consent in human trafficking

by Elliott, Jessica

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"Consent in the law is a much debated and unquestionably problematic notion, uniform definition and application of which to different situations can be both difficult to achieve, and inappropriate. Furthermore, establishing the presence of 'coercion' and therefore lack of consen…

The role of consent in human trafficking

by Elliott, Jessica

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"Consent in the law is a much debated and unquestionably problematic notion, uniform definition and application of which to different situations can be both difficult to achieve, and inappropriate. Furthermore, establishing the presence of 'coercion' and therefore lack of consen…