Gender & The Law

In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the ...

In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the ...

This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It t...

Guardian's Best Paperback of the Month ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S and FINANCIAL TIMES' BOOKS OF 2020 'In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings...

The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. ‘The Fema...

Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost...

Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on internationa...

A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers. Are mothers truly a danger to their children’s healt...

Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imp...

Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman’s ...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon’s pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the d...

Informed in 1944 that she was “not of the sex” entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the...

One of the law’s most important and far-reaching roles is to govern family life and family members. Family law decides who counts as kin, how famil...

Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story. As 'a ...

For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once meant much more....

When we talk about sex—whether great, good, bad, or unlawful—we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, W...

In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience....

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary resp...

This thought-provoking book conceptualizes femicide as a multifaceted human rights violation and proposes state responsibility for group-related ri...

Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure – a queer infrastructure – connecting different generations and locations, facilita...

Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure – a queer infrastructure – connecting different generations and locations, facilita...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the “feebleminded,” justified the incarceration, sterilization, and force...

Women’s Legal Landmarks commemorates the centenary of women’s admission in 1919 to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key le...