The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

Herausgeber: Hennette Vauchez, Stéphanie; Rubio-Marín, Ruth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law and gender interact to shape the legal subject. Organised in thematic chapters that address the legal subject's corporeal, functional, and communal dimensions, it offers an accessible but theoretically ambitious analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781108713306
• ISBN-10: 1108713300
• Artikelnr.: 64532439

Inhaltsangabe

From law and gender to law as gender: the legal subject and the
co-production hypothesis; Part I. Bodies: 1. The sexed subject
Marie-Xaviere Catto and Stefano Osella; 2. The foetal subject: law, gender
and embodiment Michael Thomson; 3. The terrorized subject: a critique of
'women', 'gender violence' and 'vulnerability' as legal categories Márcia
Nina Bernardes and Sofia Martins; 4. The sexual subject: recasting the
sexual citizen Melissa Murray; Part II. Functions: 5. The working subject:
the collusion of law and gender in the construction of working subjects
Joanne Conaghan; 6. The reproductive subject: the reproductive subject and
the embodied state of international human rights law Joanna N. Erdman; 7.
The caring subject Jonathan Herring; Part III. Communities: 8. The national
subject Melanie Toombs and Kim Rubenstein; 9. The familial subject Fernanda
G. Nicola and Ann Shalleck; 10. The political subject Stéphanie Hennette
Vauchez and Ruth Rubio Marin.