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Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all
violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult
issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice
systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that learning
embodied advocacy-a practice that results from an expanded
understanding of expertise based on lived experience-and adopting
it in legal settings can directly and tangibly help victims of
abuse. Focusing on clinical legal education at the Domestic
Violence Institute at the Northeastern University School of Law,
Britt takes a case-study approach to illuminate how challenging the
context, aims, and forms of advocacy traditionally embraced in the
U.S. legal system produces better support for victims of domestic
violence. She analyzes a wide range of materials and practices,
including the pedagogy of law school training programs, interviews
with advocates, and narratives written by students in the emergency
department, and looks closely at the forms of rhetorical education
through which students assimilate advocacy practices. By examining
how students learn to listen actively to clients and to recognize
that clients have the right and ability to make decisions for
themselves, Britt shows that rhetorical education can succeed in
producing legal professionals with the inclination and capacity to
engage others whose values and experiences diverge from their own.
By investigating the deep relationship between legal education and
rhetorical education, Reimagining Advocacy calls for conversations
and action that will improve advocacy for others, especially for
victims of domestic violence seeking assistance from legal
professionals.
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 to be enshrined as constitutional rights.
Focusing primarily on Japan, Shigenori Matsui explores the extent
to which governments should be allowed to restrict or influence
sexual autonomy. Should a constitution encompass rights including:
to decide or change sexual or gender identity; to have children,
through natural birth or through medically assisted reproduction;
or to not have children, through access to abortion? This
rigorously detailed legal analysis has implications for government
policy in all countries facing similar issues.
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This book critically analyses the impact of digital media
technologies on police scandal. Using an in-depth analysis of a
viral bystander video of police excessive force filmed at the 2013
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade and uploaded to YouTube,
the book addresses the ways social media video sousveillance can
shape operational and institutional police responses to police
misconduct. The volume features new research on the immediate and
longer-term impacts of social media-generated police scandal on
police legitimacy and accountability and responds to inherent
questions of procedural justice. It interrogates the technological,
political and legal frameworks that govern the relationships
between the police and LGBTQI communities in Australia and beyond
through the 'social media test' - the police narratives created and
contested through social media, mainstream media, and police media.
In doing so, it considers the role of sexual citizenship discourse
as a political, economic and social organizing principle. A
comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of 'digital' and
'queer' criminology, this is an essential read for those working at
the intersection of criminology and the digital society, queer
criminology, and critical criminology.
This casebook on the law of sexual orientation and gender identity
weaves interdisciplinary perspectives into the up-to-date coverage
of a rapidly changing legal landscape. It provides comprehensive
coverage of the range of legal issues concerning LGBTQ persons,
along with scholarly commentary on these issues. It also covers
issues of sexuality and gender more broadly. It addresses in depth
many significant recent developments, including the Supreme Court's
landmark decision interpreting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as
prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and
sexual orientation, and the growing set of religious liberty claims
asserted by opponents of LGBTQ equality measures. The book also
extensively covers gender identity issues, including the challenges
faced by transgender individuals in accessing sex-segregated
facilities, adequate healthcare, and equal educational and athletic
opportunities.
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in
various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their
gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out
states' failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes
between different levels and forms of law-namely domestic laws,
local regulations, or the implementation of international law,
individually or in combination. By taking off from the confirmation
that the concept of law that is to be used in achieving gender
equality is a multidimensional, multi-layered, and to an extent,
contradictory phenomenon, this book aims to find out how different
layers of laws interact and how they impact gender equality.
Further to that, by including different states and jurisdictions
into its analysis, this book unravels whether there are any
similarities/patterns in how these states define and utilise
policies and laws that harm gender equality. In this way, the book
contributes to the efforts to devise holistic and universal
policies to address various forms of gender inequalities across the
world. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in
Gender Studies, Sociology, Law, and Criminology.
Dare to dissent. Fight for what you believe in. Change the world
for the better-and do it all in a lacy collar. Let the "notorious
RBG" teach you to find your work-life balance, stand up for your
rights, dissent like a woman, and boss it on or off the bench. If
you're ready to live life like the queen of the Supreme Court, tie
your hair in a scrunchie, pop on those oversized glasses, and find
out how to Be More RBG. Whether you feel like your dream career is
a million miles away, you're struggling with your gym routine, or
you want to change the world, but don't know how to start, ask
yourself: What would RBG do? Then find the answers in Be More RBG,
which is full of witty and wise quotes from Associate Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and tongue-in-cheek advice for every
situation.
Does Canada need any more collections about legal regulation of sex
and sexuality? Volumes exist dealing with sex work and
pornographies. Certainly, volumes abound dealing with emerging
sexualities in Canada and new sexual freedoms. This book seeks to
do more than tell a story of broad generalities about the law. It
forges the links between the history of law and modern iterations
of judgments pertaining to that law. Hence the uncomfortable line
between Victorian morality (often) and modern regulation, is
thematically explored through the book. More modern iterations of
sexual regulation in Canada are being deployed and, in this book,
the authors explore the interplay between emerging digital
technologies and legal regulation. Newer laws in Canada have been
drafted to recognize that sexual expression can be a means of
violence inherently, and thus an exploration of modern sexual
digital expression and its emerging jurisprudence represent a new
frontier in the regulation of sex and sexuality in Canada. We
explore how legal regulation has responded to these new crimes.
This collection is founded upon the editors' joint experiences in
teaching in law and society programs in Canada. The authors have
witnessed cobbled together curriculums which rely upon a potpourri
of sources from law, criminology, criminal justice and law and
society disciplines. There exists a growing interest from
university students and legal scholars alike for a reader in the
context of law reform and legal change in respect of sexual
politics and movements in Canada, especially in the context of more
modern iterations of crime and sexual politics. Furthermore, while
this collection is intended to be educational in the main, it will
foster broader discussions in the context of legal regulation of
sex and sexuality in Canadian jurisprudence.
Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected
co-mayor of Diyarbakir in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state
arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not
unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and
collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs,
co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection
of prison writings from more than 20 Kurdish women politicians.
Here they reflect on their personal and collective struggles
against patriarchy and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey; on the
radical feminist principles and practices through which they
transformed the political structures and state offices in which
they operated. They discuss what worked and what didn't, and the
ways in which Turkey's anti-capitalist and socialist movements
closely informed their political stances and practices.
Demonstrating Kurdish women's ceaseless political determination and
refusal to be silenced - even when behind bars - the book
ultimately hopes to inspire women living under even the most unjust
conditions to engage in collective resistance.
In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the
international scholarship relating to women in law. The lives and
careers of women in legal practice and the judiciary have been
extensively documented and critiqued, but the central conundrum
remains: Does the presence of women make a difference? What has
been largely overlooked in the literature is the position of women
in the legal academy, although central to the changing culture. To
remedy the oversight, an international network of scholars embarked
on a comparative study, which resulted in this path-breaking book.
The contributors uncover fascinating accounts of the careers of the
academic pioneers as well as exploring broader theoretical issues
relating to gender and culture. The provocative question as to
whether the presence of women makes a difference informs each
contribution.
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Matt Wright; Illustrated by James L. Cook
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This book explores the issue of abortion and women's rights in
contemporary China. With a vast population, China's government has
pursued controversial policies, such as the One Child Policy, in
the past. Today, a rapidly urbanizing society is aging quickly, and
the policies are loosening; but what are the implications for
Chinese women, and how do policies compare to those in the West? In
this groundbreaking book, Dr. Jiang eludicates the Chinese legal
and social history of abortion for the first time in English. This
book will be of interest to lawyers, NGO researchers, feminists and
academics.
This book brings together a group of innovative scholars examining
the contemporary issue of effecting gender and sexuality justice in
the context of Asia, consonant with engendering a just, equitable
and sustainable development for all. These grassroots initiatives
are woven through three complementary sections of the book: gender
justice in Asia, sexuality justice in Asia, and finding resolutions
through conflict. The book foregrounds strategies that aim to call
out and challenge existing gender and sexuality injustices with
regard to women and the LGBTIQA+ community by: assessing the
efficacy of gender mainstreaming policies through micro-credit
schemes for women in East Java, Indonesia; proliferating the
signifiers of the hijab (veil) by postmodern Malay-Muslim women or
'Hijabistas' within the consumerist culture of Malaysia; making
visible the injustices of the Syariah legal system for non-Muslim
women, and ground-breaking legislation that could potentially
recognise same-sex marriages in Thailand; privileging the
narratives of gay women diplomats within the highly masculinised
field of diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region; foregrounding the
narratives of Filipino gay men, intimate partner violence among
young Indonesian Christian young people, masculine-identifying
lesbians in Singapore, young LGBT people in rural Vietnam, and a
Chinese-Muslim Malaysian female-to-male transgender person; and
proposing new ways of becoming an inclusive church through the
radical act of befriending persons living with HIV and AIDS in
Southeast Asia. This book celebrates diverse and inclusive voices
and strategies of gender and sexual agents of change in envisioning
and bringing to fruition a just and transformative society for all.
It is of interest to students and scholars researching gender and
sexuality in areas of development studies, international relations,
socio-legal studies, and literary studies.
Demands for redress of historical injustice are a crucial component
of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice.
However, understanding when and why an unjust history matters for
considerations of justice in the present is not straightforward.
Alasia Nuti develops a normative framework to identify which
historical injustices we should be concerned about, to
conceptualise the relation between persistence and change and,
thus, conceive of history as newly reproduced. Focusing on the
condition of women in formally egalitarian societies, the book
shows that history is important to theorise the injustice of gender
inequalities and devise transformative remedies. Engaging with the
activist politics of the unjust past, Nuti also demonstrates that
the reproduction of an unjust history is dynamic, complex and
unsettling. It generates both historical and contemporary
responsibilities for redress and questions precisely those features
of our order that we take for granted.
A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of
Lynn Gehl's lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state's
constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set
up its colonial powersincluding the Supreme Court, House of
Commons, Senate Chamber, and the Residences of the Prime Minister
and Governor Generalon her traditional Algonquin territory,
usurping the riches and resources of the land, she was pushed to
the margins, exiled to a life of poverty in Toronto's inner-city.
With only beads in her pocket, Gehl spent her entire life fighting
back, and now offers an insider analysis of Indian Act litigation,
the narrow remedies the court imposes, and of obfuscating
parliamentary discourse, as well as an important critique of the
methodology of legal positivism. Drawing on social identity and
Indigenous theories, the author presents Disenfranchised Spirit
Theory, revealing insights into the identity struggles facing
Indigenous Peoples to this day.
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate
confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a
public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was
defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme
Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger
social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system
that refuses to believe what they say. Hill's experience shows how
a tainted witness is not who someone is, but what someone can
become. Why are women so often considered unreliable witnesses to
their own experiences? How are women discredited in legal courts
and in courts of public opinion? Why is women's testimony so often
mired in controversies fueled by histories of slavery and
colonialism? How do new feminist witnesses enter testimonial
networks and disrupt doubt? Tainted Witness examines how gender,
race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony
circulates in search of an adequate witness. Judgment falls
unequally upon women who bear witness, as well-known conflicts
about testimonial authority in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries reveal. Women's testimonial accounts
demonstrate both the symbolic potency of women's bodies and speech
in the public sphere and the relative lack of institutional
security and control to which they can lay claim. Each testimonial
act follows in the wake of a long and invidious association of race
and gender with lying that can be found to this day within legal
courts and everyday practices of judgment, defining these locations
as willfully unknowing and hostile to complex accounts of harm.
Bringing together feminist, literary, and legal frameworks, Leigh
Gilmore provides provocative readings of what happens when women's
testimony is discredited. She demonstrates how testimony crosses
jurisdictions, publics, and the unsteady line between truth and
fiction in search of justice.
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know
little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political,
and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this
question within the context of India, the world's largest
democracy. Brule employs a research design that maximizes causal
inference alongside extensive field research to explain the
relationship between political representation, backlash, and
economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government -
gatekeepers - catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to
property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent
rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when
they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining.
Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of
rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights
without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brule
shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to
foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
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