Gender & The Law

Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working w...

A Waterstones Best History Book 2024 'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Phi...

With over five billion internet users globally, it is crucial to understand social media activism and legal change for women and girls. This insigh...

This book provides an innovative and policy-oriented analysis of gender stereotypes in advertising regulation from a socio-legal perspective.Examin...

Highly topical collection of innovative essays on the protection of democracy by eminent contributors from the judiciary, the practicing legal prof...

Sex and sexuality are an integral part of human life and vital for the survival of the human race, but sexual freedoms in many countries have yet t...

This book offers new perspectives on two key themes: the criminal law of sexual consent and the temporalities of law. It uses detailed feminist ana...

This book critically engages criminal law issues relating to sexuality and violence in order to argue that an attention to emotions can produce a m...

This book examines the adequacy of laws in India as a response to sexual and gender-based violence against women. It addresses questions such as: i...

Through a comparative analysis involving 13 countries from Africa, America, Asia and Europe, this book provides an invaluable assessment of womens ...

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement me...

This book addresses key questions around gender-sensitive legislation as a key output of gender sensitive Parliaments and explores practical ways t...

Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and selves continue to be treated as monst...

Pepin-Neff coins the term Tolerable Inequality to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to ma...

Pepin-Neff coins the term Tolerable Inequality to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to ma...

Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communties to r...

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the ...

This book explores the contentious topic of womens rights in Muslim-majority countries, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian womens moveme...

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongo...