Gender & The Law

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...

Konstantinos Kapparis challenges the traditional view that free women, citizen and metic, were excluded from the Athenian legal system. Looking at ...

We are all the result of gestation: the process of becoming before birth. The very nature of human gestation, however, has shifted and will continu...

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.In recent years, ideological s...

A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the African Woman...

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the inv...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered to be foundational to society and the organization...

Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smarts innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in ...

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens ...

With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at...

A unique introduction to the constitutional arguments for and against the right to abortion In January 1973, the Supreme Courts opinion in Roe v. W...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they...