Feminist Engagement With The Law
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Feminist Engagement With The Law
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Author : Elizabeth Comack
language : en
Publisher: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women = Institut canadien de recherches sur les femmes
Release Date : 1993
Feminist Engagement With The Law written by Elizabeth Comack and has been published by Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women = Institut canadien de recherches sur les femmes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Abused wives categories.
This monograph analyzes the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in Lavallee [R. v. Lavallee (1990)] to recognize the Battered Woman Syndrome as relevant in cases involving women defendants who kill their abusive partners. The author suggests that, while there is much in the decision which would lead feminists to consider 'Lavalee' to be a benefit, the decision also legitimates the power of the 'psy' professions to interpret an abused woman's experiences. Accordingly, the Battered Woman Syndrome is criticized as offering an account which individualizes, medicalizes and depoliticizes the abuse. The discussion concludes with a consideration of the implications of the recognition for feminists.
Research Handbook On Feminist Engagement With International Law
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Author : Susan Harris Rimmer
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2019
Research Handbook On Feminist Engagement With International Law written by Susan Harris Rimmer and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with LAW categories.
For almost 30 years, scholars and advocates have been exploring the interaction and potential between the rights and well-being of women and the promise of international law. This collection posits that the next frontier for international law is increasing its relevance, beneficence and impact for women in the developing world, and to deal with a much wider range of issues through a feminist lens.
Feminist Engagement With International Criminal Law
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Author : Eithne Dowds
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-23
Feminist Engagement With International Criminal Law written by Eithne Dowds and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Law categories.
This work introduces and further develops the feminist strategy of 'norm transfer': the proposal that feminist informed standards created at the level of international criminal law make their way into domestic contexts. Situating this strategy within the complementarity regime of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it is argued that there is an opportunity for dialogue and debate around the contested aspects of international norms as opposed to uncritical acceptance. The book uses the crime of rape as a case study and offers a new perspective on one of the most contentious debates within international and domestic criminal legal feminism: the relationship between consent and coercion in the definition of rape. In analysing the ICC definition of rape, it is argued that the omission of consent as an explicit element is flawed. Arguing that the definition is in need of revision to explicitly include a context-sensitive notion of consent, the book goes further, setting out draft legislative amendments to the ICC 'Elements of Crimes' definition of rape and its Rules of Procedure and Evidence. Turning its attention to the domestic landscape, the book drafts amendments to the United Kingdom (UK) Sexual Offences Act 2003 and to the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999: thereby showing how the revised version of the ICC definition can be applied in context of the UK.
Feminist Perspectives On Law
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Author : Jo Bridgeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Feminist Perspectives On Law written by Jo Bridgeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Body, Human categories.
"Feminist Perspectives on Law" is a socio-legal text which examines the interaction between law and women's lives, particularly in relation to legal regulation of the female body. It comprises extracts from feminist legal texts and interdisciplinary writings, case law and legislation, which the authors explore through an ongoing commentary. It seeks to identify the points of connection between the law and women's lives, the role of the law in perpetuating the disadvantageous position of women, and the limitations as well as possibilities for the creative use of law in bringing about change in teh lives of women in the areas under construction.
Contesting Femicide
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Author : Adrian Howe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Contesting Femicide written by Adrian Howe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Law categories.
Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law reforms as construing it as a site on which to contest gender and more particularly, gendered constructions of women’s experiences. Over the last 30 to 40 years, feminist law scholars and activists have launched scathing trans-jurisdictional critiques of the operation of provocation defences in hundreds of femicide cases. The evidence unearthed by feminist scholars that these defences operate in profoundly sexed ways is unequivocal. Accordingly, femicide cases have become critically important sites for feminist engagement and intervention across numerous jurisdictions. Exploring an area of criminal law that was not one of Smart’s own focal concerns, this book both honours and extends Smart’s work by approaching femicide as a site of engagement and counter-discourse that calls into question hegemonic representations of gendered relationships. Femicide cases thus provide a way to continue the endlessly valuable discursive work Smart advocated and practised in other fields of law: both in articulating alternative accounts of gendered relationships and in challenging law’s power to disqualify women’s experiences of violence while privileging men’s feelings and rights.
Subversive Sites
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Author : Ratna Kapur
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 1996-10
Subversive Sites written by Ratna Kapur and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10 with Law categories.
Offers a feminist analysis of the legal regulation of women in India, looking at both the limitations and possibilities of the role that law can play in women's struggles for social change. Explores the extent to which assumptions about women's identities as wives and mothers limit the promise of legal equality and discusses issues such as the moral and economic regulation of women, the impact of new economic policies, and the Hindu Right. For those involved in feminist legal studies, sociology, gender studies, law, and postcolonial theory. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Ashgate Research Companion To Feminist Legal Theory
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Author : Vanessa E. Munro
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
The Ashgate Research Companion To Feminist Legal Theory written by Vanessa E. Munro and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Law categories.
As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at the broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy.
International Law
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Author : Doris E Buss
language : en
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Release Date : 2005-06-21
International Law written by Doris E Buss and has been published by Hart Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-21 with Law categories.
This book brings together feminist scholars to explore the directions and tensions in feminist engagement with various areas of international law.
Feminist Perspectives On Contemporary International Law
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Author : Sari Kouvo
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Feminist Perspectives On Contemporary International Law written by Sari Kouvo and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Law categories.
The essays in this volume analyse feminism's positioning vis-à-vis international law and the current paradigms of international law. The authors argue that, willingly or unwillingly, feminist perspectives on international law have come to be situated between 'resistance' and 'compliance'. That is, feminist scholarship aims at deconstructing international law to show why and how 'women' have been marginalised; at the same time feminists have been largely unwilling to challenge the core of international law and its institutions, remaining hopeful of international law's potential for women. The analysis is clustered around three themes: the first part, theory and method, looks at how feminist perspectives on international law have developed and seeks to introduce new theoretical and methodological tools (especially through a focus on psychoanalysis and geography). The second part, national and international security, focuses on how feminists have situated themselves in relation to the current discourses of 'crisis', the post-9/11 NGO 'industry' and the changing discourses of violence against women. The third part, global and local justice, addresses some of the emerging trends in international law, focusing especially on transitional justice, state-building, trafficking and economic globalisation.
Transcending The Boundaries Of Law
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Author : Martha Albertson Fineman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-07-12
Transcending The Boundaries Of Law written by Martha Albertson Fineman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-12 with Law categories.
Transcending the Boundaries of Law is a ground-breaking collection that will be central to future developments in feminist and related critical theories about law. In its pages three generations of feminist legal theorists engage with what have become key feminist themes, including equality, embodiment, identity, intimacy, and law and politics. Almost two decades ago Routledge published the very first anthology in feminist legal theory, At the Boundaries of Law (M.A. Fineman and N. Thomadsen, eds. 1991), which marked an important conceptual move away from the study of "women in law" prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s. The scholars in At the Boundaries applied feminist methods and theories in examining law and legal institutions, thus expanding upon work in the Law and Society tradition. This new anthology brings together some of the original contributors to that volume with scholars from subsequent generations of critical gender theorists. It provides a "retrospective" on the past twenty-five years of scholarly engagement with issues relating to gender and law, as well as suggesting directions for future inquiry, including the tantalizing suggestion that feminist legal theory should move beyond gender as its primary focus to consider the theoretical, political, and social implications of the universally shared and constant vulnerability inherent in the human condition.