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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence - A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (Paperback): Leigh Goodmark Decriminalizing Domestic Violence - A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (Paperback)
Leigh Goodmark
R744 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and violence in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partner violence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partner violence in the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics in domestic violence, family violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner violence not solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partner violence through these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform.

Gender, Psychology, and Justice - The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System (Hardcover): Corinne C Datchi, Julie... Gender, Psychology, and Justice - The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System (Hardcover)
Corinne C Datchi, Julie R Ancis
R2,494 R2,309 Discovery Miles 23 090 Save R185 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-being of women and girls in the justice system. Women and girls' contact with the justice system is often influenced by gender-related assumptions and stereotypes. The justice practices of the past 40 years have been largely based on conceptual principles and assumptions-including personal theories about gender-more than scientific evidence about what works to address the specific needs of women and girls in the justice system. Because of this, women and girls have limited access to equitable justice and are increasingly caught up in outdated and harmful practices, including the net of the criminal justice system. Gender, Psychology, and Justice uses psychological research to examine the experiences of women and girls involved in the justice system. Their experiences, from initial contact with justice and court officials, demonstrate how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation to impact legal status and well-being. The volume also explains the role psychology can play in shaping legal policy, ranging from the areas of corrections to family court and drug court. Gender, Psychology, and Justice provides a critical analysis of girls' and women's experiences in the justice system. It reveals the practical implications of training and interventions grounded in psychological research, and suggests new principles for working with women and girls in legal settings.

Protecting Trans Rights in the Age of Gender Self-Determination (Paperback): Eva Brems, Pieter Cannoot, Toon Moonen Protecting Trans Rights in the Age of Gender Self-Determination (Paperback)
Eva Brems, Pieter Cannoot, Toon Moonen; Contributions by Toon Moonen, Pieter Cannoot, …
R1,867 Discovery Miles 18 670 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Over the last decade, trans rights and gender variation as legal and a human rights issues have been high on the international and national agendas. Improved registration of and attention for gender variation and gender incongruence is accompanied by attention for the often far-reaching requirements that trans persons have to comply with in order to obtain legal recognition of their actual gender identity. A small but rapidly growing number of (mostly European and South American) States have recently reformed their legal frameworks of gender recognition by allowing trans persons to change their official sex registration on the basis of gender self-determination.Against that background, this book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gender self-determination and its consequences for law and society, such as the future of sex/gender registration and the protection of trans persons against discrimination. Given the importance of State practice for the development of the right to gender self-determination and its implementation in law, particular attention is given to the national contexts of Belgium, Germany and Norway. These three countries may be perceived as world leaders in protecting trans rights, and therefore noteworthy 'laboratories' for future State practice.

Gender, Psychology, and Justice - The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System (Paperback): Corinne C Datchi, Julie... Gender, Psychology, and Justice - The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System (Paperback)
Corinne C Datchi, Julie R Ancis
R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-being of women and girls in the justice system. Women and girls' contact with the justice system is often influenced by gender-related assumptions and stereotypes. The justice practices of the past 40 years have been largely based on conceptual principles and assumptions-including personal theories about gender-more than scientific evidence about what works to address the specific needs of women and girls in the justice system. Because of this, women and girls have limited access to equitable justice and are increasingly caught up in outdated and harmful practices, including the net of the criminal justice system. Gender, Psychology, and Justice uses psychological research to examine the experiences of women and girls involved in the justice system. Their experiences, from initial contact with justice and court officials, demonstrate how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation to impact legal status and well-being. The volume also explains the role psychology can play in shaping legal policy, ranging from the areas of corrections to family court and drug court. Gender, Psychology, and Justice provides a critical analysis of girls' and women's experiences in the justice system. It reveals the practical implications of training and interventions grounded in psychological research, and suggests new principles for working with women and girls in legal settings.

'Rough Sex' and the Criminal Law - Global Perspectives (Hardcover): Hannah Bows, Jonathan Herring 'Rough Sex' and the Criminal Law - Global Perspectives (Hardcover)
Hannah Bows, Jonathan Herring
R2,221 Discovery Miles 22 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Rough sex' has been at the forefront of criminal law in recent years following several high-profile murders of women killed during alleged consensual sex 'gone wrong', leading to widespread calls for reform to prevent the use of what has been termed the 'rough sex defence.' Situated in a global context in which violence against women is one of the leading preventable contributors to death and illness for women aged 18-44 worldwide, this timely collection examines the rough sex defence and responds to some of the wider debates around sex and the law. Drawing on a range of empirical and theoretical standpoints, chapters delve into a range of topics including the female experience of 'unwanted' slapping, choking and spitting during sex, the BDSM community, the impacts of pornography, the normalization and sexualization of violence against women, early depictions of BDSM involving the eroticization of non-consensual relations, problematic perceptions of BDSM as inherently violent, and more. Bows and Herring expertly collate a wide-reaching mix of perspectives to contribute to a powerful feminist investigation of this critical issue. It is a compelling read for scholars interested in the intersection of sex, the law, and the criminal justice system.

Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law (Paperback): Emily Snyder Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law (Paperback)
Emily Snyder
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of miyo-wicehtowin (good relations), Snyder argues that they do not capture the complexities of gendered power relations. The majority of these resources either erase women's legal authority by not mentioning them, or they diminish their agency by portraying Cree laws and gender roles in inflexible, aesthetically pleasing ways that overlook power imbalances and other forms of oppression.

Law, Religion and Homosexuality (Paperback): Paul Johnson, Robert Vanderbeck Law, Religion and Homosexuality (Paperback)
Paul Johnson, Robert Vanderbeck
R1,355 Discovery Miles 13 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Law, Religion and Homosexuality is the first book-length study of how religion has shaped, and continues to shape, legislation that regulates the lives of gay men and lesbians . Through a systematic examination of how religious discourse influences the making of law - in the form of official interventions made by faith communities and organizations, as well as by expressions of faith by individual legislators - the authors argue that religion continues to be central to both enabling and restricting the development of sexual orientation equality. Whilst some claim that faith has been marginalized in the legislative processes of contemporary western societies, Johnson and Vanderbeck show the significant impact of religion in a number of substantive legal areas relating to sexual orientation including: same-sex sexual relations, family life, civil partnership and same-sex marriage, equality in employment and the provision of goods and services, hate speech regulation, and education. Law, Religion and Homosexuality demonstrates the dynamic interplay between law and religion in respect of homosexuality and will be of considerable interest to a wide audience of academics, policy makers and stakeholders.

Gender History in China (Hardcover): Linda Grove Gender History in China (Hardcover)
Linda Grove; Edited by Masako Kohama
R1,678 R1,365 Discovery Miles 13 650 Save R313 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times to the present day? Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leading Japanese scholars in the fields of archaeology, history, literature, sociology and law who examine the gender dynamics that have shaped and changed Chinese society over several thousand years. The eighteen chapters and six columns look at the ways gender norms and customary legal practices shaped the family, kinship, and the social order, and how those norms were reflected in work patterns, inheritance, daily life, and literary works. Attention is given to the fundamental principle of qi (material essence) as a building block in cosmology, as well as in legal understandings of family relations. The second part of the volume turns to the dramatic changes in gender patterns from the late nineteenth century, looking at the inflow of new ideas, the struggle for political rights and economic equality, and the institution of new gender norms in socialist and reform-era China. The authors take up such topics as the view of the body in relation to Chinese cosmology, the incorporation of the military man into China's model of hegemonic masculinity, the household registration system as a means of control, the appraisal of "talented women", and the intersection of gender norms and nationalism. Gender History in China enriches our understanding of Chinese history and of contemporary Chinese society.

Tolley's Estate Planning 2017-18 (Paperback, New edition): Sharon McKie, Simon Mckie Tolley's Estate Planning 2017-18 (Paperback, New edition)
Sharon McKie, Simon Mckie
R4,059 Discovery Miles 40 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The latest edition of this key title sees Tolley live up to its reputation as the authority on tax matters. It contains all the information required to achieve the most cost-effective, convenient and effective estate planning. The esteemed editorial board help you formulate strategies for the provision, holding and devolution of personal and family resources. Clear subject headings and straightforward explanations of routine and complex topics make for fast, effective research. Following the tax planning series' straightforward and easy-to-read style with clear headings, this guide includes worked examples, tables and a comprehensive index. A practical step-by-step case study illustrates the benefits of careful planning and incorporates many points discussed throughout the book.

Divorce and Democracy - A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India (Hardcover): Saumya Saxena Divorce and Democracy - A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India (Hardcover)
Saumya Saxena
R3,509 R2,776 Discovery Miles 27 760 Save R733 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book captures the Indian state's difficult dialogue with divorce, mediated largely through religion. By mapping the trajectories of marriage and divorce laws of Hindu, Muslim, and Christian communities in post-colonial India, it explores the dynamic interplay between law, religion, family, minority rights and gender in Indian politics. It demonstrates that the binary frameworks of the private-public divide, individuals versus group rights, and universal rights versus legal pluralism collapse before the peculiarities of religious personal law. Historicizing the legislative and judicial response to decades of public debates and activism on the question of personal law, it suggests that the sustained negotiations over family life within and across the legal landscape provoked a unique and deeply contextual evolution of both, secularism and religion in India's constitutional order. Personal law, therefore, played a key role in defining the place of religion and determining the content of secularism in India's democracy.

Blaming Mothers - American Law and the Risks to Children's Health (Paperback): Linda C Fentiman Blaming Mothers - American Law and the Risks to Children's Health (Paperback)
Linda C Fentiman
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 health? In 2004, a mentally disabled young woman in Utah was charged by prosecutors with murder after she declined to have a Caesarian section and subsequently delivered a stillborn child. In 2010, a pregnant woman who attempted suicide when the baby's father abandoned her was charged with murder and attempted feticide after the daughter she delivered prematurely died. These are just two of the many cases that portray mothers as the major source of health risk for their children. The American legal system is deeply shaped by unconscious risk perception that distorts core legal principles to punish mothers who "fail to protect" their children. In Blaming Mothers, Professor Fentiman explores how mothers became legal targets. She explains the psychological processes we use to confront tragic events and the unconscious race, class, and gender biases that affect our perceptions and influence the decisions of prosecutors, judges, and jurors. Fentiman examines legal actions taken against pregnant women in the name of "fetal protection" including court ordered C-sections and maintaining brain-dead pregnant women on life support to gestate a fetus, as well as charges brought against mothers who fail to protect their children from an abusive male partner. She considers the claims of physicians and policymakers that refusing to breastfeed is risky to children's health. And she explores the legal treatment of lead-poisoned children, in which landlords and lead paint manufacturers are not held responsible for exposing children to high levels of lead, while mothers are blamed for their children's injuries. Blaming Mothers is a powerful call to reexamine who - and what - we consider risky to children's health. Fentiman offers an important framework for evaluating childhood risk that, rather than scapegoating mothers, provides concrete solutions that promote the health of all of America's children. Read a piece by Linda Fentiman on shaming and blaming mothers under the law on The Gender Policy Report.

What It Feels Like - Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture (Paperback): Stephanie R. Larson What It Feels Like - Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture (Paperback)
Stephanie R. Larson
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2022 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Book Award Winner of the 2022 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition What It Feels Like interrogates an underexamined reason for our failure to abolish rape in the United States: the way we communicate about it. Using affective and feminist materialist approaches to rhetorical criticism, Stephanie Larson examines how discourses about rape and sexual assault rely on strategies of containment, denying the felt experiences of victims and ultimately stalling broader claims for justice. Investigating anti-pornography debates from the 1980s, Violence Against Women Act advocacy materials, sexual assault forensic kits, public performances, and the #MeToo movement, Larson reveals how our language privileges male perspectives and, more deeply, how it is shaped by systems of power-patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and heteronormativity. Interrogating how these systems work to propagate masculine commitments to "science" and "hard evidence," Larson finds that US culture holds a general mistrust of testimony by women, stereotyping it as "emotional." But she also gives us hope for change, arguing that testimonies grounded in the bodily, material expression of violation are necessary for giving voice to victims of sexual violence and presenting, accurately, the scale of these crimes. Larson makes a case for visceral rhetorics, theorizing them as powerful forms of communication and persuasion. Demonstrating the communicative power of bodily feeling, Larson challenges the long-held commitment to detached, distant, rationalized discourses of sexual harassment and rape. Timely and poignant, the book offers a much-needed corrective to our legal and political discourses.

Feminist Post-Liberalism (Paperback): Judith A Baer Feminist Post-Liberalism (Paperback)
Judith A Baer
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Feminism and liberalism need each other, argues Judith Baer. Her provocative book, Feminist Post-Liberalism, refutes both conservative and radical critiques. To make her case, she rejects classical liberalism in favor of a welfare-and possibly socialist-post-liberalism that will prevent capitalism and a concentration of power that reinforces male supremacy. Together, feminism and liberalism can better elucidate controversies in American politics, law, and society. Baer emphasizes that tolerance and self-examination are virtues, but within both feminist and liberal thought these virtues have been carried to extremes. Feminist theory needs liberalism's respect for reason, while liberal theory needs to incorporate emotion. Liberalism focuses too narrowly on the individual, while feminism needs a dose of individualism. Feminist Post-Liberalism includes anthropological foundations of male dominance to explore topics ranging from crime to cultural appropriation. Baer develops a theory that is true to the principles of both feminist and liberal ideologies.

Reading Article 15 and Manusmriti. - Towards censoring unconstitutional Hindu shastras. (Paperback): Windows a Feminist... Reading Article 15 and Manusmriti. - Towards censoring unconstitutional Hindu shastras. (Paperback)
Windows a Feminist Research Center
R148 Discovery Miles 1 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jeannie's Demise - Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto (Paperback): Ian Radforth Jeannie's Demise - Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto (Paperback)
Ian Radforth
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Illegal. Underground. Deadly. August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie's Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and courtrooms of "Toronto the Good," cast with all the lurid stock characters of the genre. Historian Ian Radforth brings to life an era in which abortion was illegal, criminal proceedings were a spectator sport, and coded advertisements for back-alley procedures ran in the margins of newspapers. At the centre of the story is the elusive and doomed Jeannie Gilmour, a minister's daughter whose independent spirit can only be glimpsed through secondhand accounts and courtroom reports. As rumours swirl about her final weeks and her abortionists stand trial for their lives, a riveted public grapples with questions of guilt and justice, innocence and intent. Radforth's intensive research grounds the tragedy of Jeannie's demise in sharp historical analysis, presenting over a dozen case studies of similar trials in Victorian-era Canada. Part gripping procedural, part meticulous autopsy, Jeannie's Demise opens a rare window into the hidden history of a woman's right to choose.

Student Support and Benefits Handbook - England, Wales and  Northern Ireland 2014/15 (Paperback, 11th Revised edition): Child... Student Support and Benefits Handbook - England, Wales and Northern Ireland 2014/15 (Paperback, 11th Revised edition)
Child Poverty Action Group
R340 R69 Discovery Miles 690 Save R271 (80%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

CPAG and the National Union of Students have joined forces to provide this definitive, up-to-date guide to financial support for students. Written for student claimants and their advisers, this Handbook covers: student support for further and higher education how student income is treated for social security benefit, health benefit and tax credit purposes entitlement to means-tested benefits and support for both full-time and part-time students claiming tax credits while studying financial support when taking time out from studying welfare benefits and tax credits relevant to students council tax tax matters that affect students. 9781906076849 This edition has been fully revised and updated, and looks at the impact of welfare reform changes on students. Fully indexed and cross-referenced to law and regulation, this Handbook also contains useful summary tables and step-by-step guides to assist with calculating benefit entitlement in the light of student income.

Empowering Women - From Murder & Misogyny to High Court Victory (Paperback): Dr. Susie Allanson Empowering Women - From Murder & Misogyny to High Court Victory (Paperback)
Dr. Susie Allanson; As told to Lizzie O'Shea
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tolley's Value Added Tax 2012 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Rhianon Davies, David Rudling Tolley's Value Added Tax 2012 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Rhianon Davies, David Rudling; Edited by (consulting) Robert Killington
R5,064 R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Save R4,267 (84%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Arranged in alphabetical subject order, from accounting periods to zero-rating, this edition brings together coverage of the UK and EC legislation, Customs material and case law and tribunal decisions on each topic. Due to the ever-changing nature of VAT, it includes the changes in the Finance Act.

The End of Family Court - How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families (Hardcover): Jane M. Spinak The End of Family Court - How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families (Hardcover)
Jane M. Spinak
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would assist children and families. But the dream of a benevolent means of judicial problem-solving was never realized. A century later, children and families continue to be failed by this deeply flawed court. The End of Family Court rejects the foundational premise that family court can do good when intervening in family life and challenges its endless reinvention to survive. Jane M. Spinak illustrates how the procedures and policies of modern family court are deeply entwined in a heritage of racism, a profound disdain for poverty, and assimilationist norms intent on fixing children and families who are different. And the court’s interventionist goals remain steeped in an approach to equity and well-being that demands individual rather than collective responsibility for the security and welfare of families. Spinak proposes concrete steps toward abolishing the court: shifting most family supports out of the court’s sphere, vastly reducing the types and number of matters that need court intervention, and ensuring that any case that requires legal adjudication has the due process protections of a court of law. She calls for strategies that center trusting and respecting the abilities of communities to create and sustain meaningful solutions for families. An abolitionist approach, in turn, celebrates a radical imagination that embraces and supports all families in a fair and equal economic and political democracy.

Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship - A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion (Hardcover, New Ed):... Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship - A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion (Hardcover, New Ed)
Ruth Rubio-Marin
R2,849 Discovery Miles 28 490 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Constitutions around the world have overwhelmingly been the creation of men, but this book asks how far constitutions have affirmed the equal citizenship status of women or failed to do so. Using a wealth of examples from around the world, Ruth Rubio-Marin considers constitutionalism from its inception to the present day and places current debates in their vital historical context. Rubio-Marin adopts an inclusive concept of gender and sexuality, and discusses the constitutional gender order as it has been shaped by debates such those around same-sex marriage and the rights of trans persons. Covering a wide range of themes, from reproductive rights to political gender quotas and violence against women, this book offers a comprehensive feminist account of constitutional law. Truly international in scope and ambitious in subject matter, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars working on gender within multiple disciplines.

Scottish Feminist Judgments - (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In (Hardcover): Sharon Cowan, Chloe Kennedy, Vanessa E. Munro Scottish Feminist Judgments - (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In (Hardcover)
Sharon Cowan, Chloe Kennedy, Vanessa E. Munro
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An innovative collaboration between academics, practitioners, activists and artists, this timely and provocative book rewrites 16 significant Scots law cases, spanning a range of substantive topics, from a feminist perspective. Exposing power, politics and partiality, feminist judges provide alternative accounts that bring gender equity concerns to the fore, whilst remaining bound by the facts and legal authorities encountered by the original court. Paying particular attention to Scotland's distinctive national identity, fluctuating experiences of political sovereignty, and unique legal traditions and institutions, this book contributes in a distinctive register to the emerging dialogue amongst feminist judgment projects across the globe. Its judgments address concerns not only about gender equality, but also about the interplay between gender, class, national identity and citizenship in contemporary Scotland. The book also showcases unique contributions from leading artists which, provoked by the enterprise of feminist judging, or by individual cases, offer a visceral and affective engagement with the legal. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of Scots law, policy-makers, as well as to scholars of feminist and critical theory, and law and gender, internationally.

Women, Business and the Law 2022 (Paperback): World Bank Group Women, Business and the Law 2022 (Paperback)
World Bank Group
R1,282 Discovery Miles 12 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions with the law as they move through their careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. Amid a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, 'Women, Business and the Law 2022' identifies barriers to women's economic participation and encourages reform of discriminatory laws. This year, the study also includes pilot research related to childcare and implementation of the law. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment. The indicators build evidence of the critical relationship between legal gender equality and women's employment and entrepreneurship. Data in 'Women, Business and the Law 2022' are current as of October 1, 2021.

Negotiating the Power of NGOs - Women's Legal Rights in South Africa (Hardcover): Reem Wael Negotiating the Power of NGOs - Women's Legal Rights in South Africa (Hardcover)
Reem Wael
R3,089 Discovery Miles 30 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on the socio-political environment that allows for the impactful work of NGOs through their proximity to local communities. The book showcases how this space has helped South African women's rights NGOs to bring about crucial legal reforms, which are quite relevant to women's lived realities. Recognizing its limitations, the South African state encourages NGOs to work freely on the ground and with state institutions to ameliorate the conditions for women's rights. The outcome of this state-NGO dynamic can be seen in the numerous human rights gains achieved by NGOs in general, and by women's rights organizations specifically. In addition, vulnerable communities such as women living under customary law have a significantly better chance to access justice. The book then demonstrates the opposite scenario, using Egypt as a case study, where NGOs are viewed as a national threat, and consequently operate under restrictive rules.

How to Destroy a Man in One Easy Step - Men; Guilty Until Proven Innocent! (Paperback): Sally A. Owen Esquire How to Destroy a Man in One Easy Step - Men; Guilty Until Proven Innocent! (Paperback)
Sally A. Owen Esquire
R295 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R55 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book is about abuses of the domestic violence laws. I am an attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a victim of domestic violence. As a former victim of Domestic Violence, any violence makes me sad. As a conscientious attorney, the widespread abuse of the Domestic Violence Laws makes me sick. Victims of domestic violence need help! They need more shelters and more counselors. They need a criminal justice system that will punish the abusers and put them in jail! HOWEVER, this has to be done through the criminal justice system and through due process. It has to be taken out of civil court. Men's rights have to be protected as well as the women's rights. The current system is being seriously abused and the potential for continuing abuse is astronomical! Vindictive women and unscrupulous attorneys have made a total mockery out of the current system and way too many innocent men are serving a "life sentence" because of it!

Women's Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste - The Blind Letters (Hardcover): Noemi Perez Vasquez Women's Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste - The Blind Letters (Hardcover)
Noemi Perez Vasquez
R3,011 Discovery Miles 30 110 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Seeing the role of transitional justice as an area of contestation, this book focuses on the principle of equality guaranteed in the access to transitional justice mechanisms. By raising women's experiences in dealing with the law and policies as well as the implications of community and family practices during post-conflict situations, the book shows how these mechanisms may have been implemented mechanically, without considering the different intersections of discrimination, the public and private divides that exist in the local context or the stereotypes and values of international and national actors. The book argues that without unpacking the barriers in the administration of transitional justice, the different mechanisms that are implemented in a post-conflict situation may set a higher threshold for the participation of women. Moreover, by taking into account women's perceptions of justice, it further argues that scholars have paid insufficient attention to the welfare structures that are produced after a conflict, particularly the pensions of veterans. Going beyond the focus on sexual violence, a relationship between the violations and post-conflict economic justice may have longer-term consequences for women since it perpetuates their inequality and lack of recognition in times of peace. The use of transitional justice may thus exacerbate the invisibility of and discrimination against certain sections of the population. Inspired by the work of Hannah Arendt and based on extensive field research in Timor-Leste, the book has larger implications for the overarching debate on the social consequences of transitional justice.

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