The Female Body And The Law
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The Female Body And The Law
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Author : Zillah R Eisenstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-07-26
The Female Body And The Law written by Zillah R Eisenstein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-26 with Social Science categories.
The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sexual inequality is fostered both by the law and by the insistence that men and women are biologically different. Through a fascinating discussion of a series of issues including affirmative action, AIDS, Baby M, pornography, and abortion, Eisenstein shows how the law operates as a political language that establishes and curtails choices and actions. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
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.
The Common Law Inside The Female Body
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Author : Anita Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019
The Common Law Inside The Female Body written by Anita Bernstein and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Law categories.
Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.
Law And Body Politics
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Author : Jo Bridgeman
language : en
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Law And Body Politics written by Jo Bridgeman and has been published by Dartmouth Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Law categories.
The metaphor of the Body Politic has been drawn upon by feminists to show the saturation of the body with political meaning. This book explores the points at which law and the female body make contact and with strategies through which the nature and meaning of that contact can be reformulated.
The Female Body A Journey Through Law Culture And Medicine
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Author : Brigitte Feuillet-Liger
language : en
Publisher: Emile Bruylant
Release Date : 2013
The Female Body A Journey Through Law Culture And Medicine written by Brigitte Feuillet-Liger and has been published by Emile Bruylant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Human body categories.
Object of fascination and fantasy, the female body can be idealized, reified or shrouded. "It is we who make women what they are worth and that is why they are worthless", proclaimed Mirabeau in the days of the Enlightenment, to which Aragon later replied : "Woman is the future of Man". The ambiguities of the female body are therein exposed. This work examines the relationship between the female body and biomedicine. Many possibilities are offered to women through biomedical techniques : from assistance to procreate (with assisted reproduction) to refusal to do so (contraception, voluntary sterilization, termination of pregnancy) ; to be informed of genetic predispositions (through the use of available genetic tests) ; or to improve their physical appearance with cosmetic surgery. But a recurrent question arises : with its rapid progress and its extreme medicalization of the body, can biomedicine liberate women ? Or rather, given the risks of the commodification of the body or its parts, is it not a source of exploitation ? The authors of this work, jurists, anthropologists, philosophers, sociologists and doctors, have explored these questions. The contributions from nineteen countries in this international multidisciplinary study analyse the reality of the amazing developments of biomedicine on the female body. Numerous systems are compared for the first time ; European, African, North and South American, but also Chinese and Japanese. Beyond highlighting differences, and identifying similarities in the development of "enhancement medicine", the objective of this work is ultimately to show the complexity surrounding the question of a woman's freedom over her body and the extent to which this is limited by the State.
The Female Body A Journey Through Law Culture And Medicine
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Author : Thérèse Callus
language : en
Publisher: Primento
Release Date : 2013-12-18
The Female Body A Journey Through Law Culture And Medicine written by Thérèse Callus and has been published by Primento this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-18 with Law categories.
Object of fascination and fantasy, the female body can be idealized, reified or shrouded. “It is we who make women what they are worth and that is why they are worthless”, proclaimed Mirabeau in the days of the Enlightenment, to which Aragon later replied: “Woman is the future of Man”. The ambiguities of the female body are therein exposed. This work examines the relationship between the female body and biomedicine. Many possibilities are offered to women through biomedical techniques: from assistance to procreate (with assisted reproduction) to refusal to do so (contraception, voluntary sterilization, termination of pregnancy); to be informed of genetic predispositions (through the use of available genetic tests); or to improve their physical appearance with cosmetic surgery. But a recurrent question arises: with its rapid progress and its extreme medicalization of the body, can biomedicine liberate women? Or rather, given the risks of the commodification of the body or its parts, is it not a source of exploitation ? The authors of this work, jurists, anthropologists, philosophers, sociologists and doctors, have explored these questions. The contributions from nineteen countries in this international multidisciplinary study analyse the reality of the amazing developments of biomedicine on the female body. Numerous systems are compared for the first time; European, African, North and South American, but also Chinese and Japanese. Beyond highlighting differences, and identifying similarities in the development of “enhancement medicine”, the objective of this work is ultimately to show the complexity surrounding the question of a woman’s freedom over her body and the extent to which this is limited by the State.
Beauty Women S Bodies And The Law
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Author : Jocelynne A. Scutt
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-12-02
Beauty Women S Bodies And The Law written by Jocelynne A. Scutt and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Social Science categories.
What makes a woman’s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women’s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is the renovation of women’s bodies legal? This book explores a range of topics, including: whether shape-changing by surgical and non-surgical means is ‘really’ what women want; the question of legal intervention when operations, injections and other methods go wrong; the impact of consent determinations on whether women can or cannot freely seek changes to their body structure; and the role which culture and social expectations play in women’s decision-making. Taking a legal perspective on the vast range of ‘beauty’ interventions available to women, Scutt discusses women’s perceptions of body and beauty, pressures on women to conform to ‘idealised’ notions of the perfect woman’s body, and outcomes of legal actions including those taken by individual women who are unhappy with results, as well as those launched against companies trading in products advertised as safe and for women’s benefit. Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law will appeal to readers with an interest in women’s and gender studies, law, and cultural studies.
Feminist Legal History
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Author : Tracy A. Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-04-04
Feminist Legal History written by Tracy A. Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-04 with History categories.
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history is driven by a commitment to uncover women's legal agency and how women, both historically and currently, use law to obtain individual and societal empowerment. Feminist Legal History represents feminist legal historians' efforts to define their field, by showcasing historical research and analysis that demonstrates how women were denied legal rights, how women used the law proactively to gain rights, and how, empowered by law, women worked to alter the law to try to change gendered realities. Encompassing two centuries of American history, thirteen original essays expose the many ways in which legal decisions have hinged upon ideas about women or gender as well as the ways women themselves have intervened in the law, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's notion of a legal class of gender to the deeply embedded inequities involved in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, a 2007 Supreme Court pay discrimination case. Contributors: Carrie N. Baker, Felice Batlan, Tracey Jean Boisseau, Eileen Boris, Richard H. Chused, Lynda Dodd, Jill Hasday, Gwen Hoerr Jordan, Maya Manian, Melissa Murray, Mae C. Quinn, Margo Schlanger, Reva Siegel, Tracy A. Thomas, and Leti Volpp
Law S Cut On The Body Of Human Rights
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Author : Juliet Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-13
Law S Cut On The Body Of Human Rights written by Juliet Rogers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-13 with Law categories.
Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that it seems. Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh considers how such images come to inform law and the investment of advocates of law in an imagination of this scene. Drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, and accompanying ideas in political theology, Juliet Rogers examines the language, imagery and excitement that accompanies recent initiatives to legislate against what is called 'female genital mutilation'. The author compliments this examination with a consideration of the scene of torture exposed in images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Rogers argues that the modes of fascination and excitement that accompany scenes of torture and female circumcision betray the fantasy of a political condition against which the subject of liberal law is imagined; this is subjectivity in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration. To support the fantasy of this subject, the mutilated subject, the authors suggests, is rendered as flesh cut from the democratic nation state, deserving of only selective human rights, or none at all.
Toward A Feminist Theory Of The State
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Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1989
Toward A Feminist Theory Of The State written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Feminism categories.
Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it to the State.