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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.
The FIDIC Handbook Series will form a series of low cost guides to
all FIDIC Contract administrators. They will ensure that
appropriate timely actions are taken during the course of a
construction contract in order to improve communication, stimulate
better administration and highlight accountability at an early
stage, thereby improving the working relationships between the
parties and reducing the potential for disputes. The guidelines
suggest actions for each party to take, stipulate the time to take
such action, provide relevant comments and includes model letters
where appropriate for each Sub-Clause within the Contract. This
book, FIDIC Handbook - Yellow, provides commentary on the Yellow
Book: FIDIC Conditions Of Contract For Plant and Design-Build which
is recommended for the provision of electrical and/or mechanical
plant and for building and engineering works if most (or all) of
the works are to be designed by (or on behalf of ) the Contractor.
This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to
consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the
body within it. Health, and more recently health law, has long been
animated by discussions of particular bodies - whether they are
disordered, diseased, or disabled - but each of these
classificatory regimes claim some knowledge about the body. This
edited collection aims to uncover and challenge the fundamental
assumptions that underpin medico-legal knowledge claims about such
bodies. This exploration is achieved through a mix of perspectives,
but many contributors look towards embodiment as a perspective that
understands bodies to be shaped by their institutional contexts.
Much of this work alerts us to the idea that medical practitioners
not only respond to healthcare issues, but also create them through
their own understandings of 'normality' and 'fixing'. Bodies, as a
result, cannot be understood outside of, or as separate to, their
medical and legal contexts. This compelling book pushes the
possibility of new directions in health care and health justice.
Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
The figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial. She
provokes intense reactions, ranging from fear, to disgust and
revulsion, to excitement and titillation, to sadness and perhaps to
some, love. The mistress is conventionally depicted as a threat to
moral living and someone whose sexuality is considered defective
and toxic. Of course, she is a woman that you would not have as
your friend, and certainly not your wife, since her ethical sense,
if she even has one, is dubious at best. This book subverts these
traditional judgements and offers an unflinching look at the lived
experience of the mistress. Here she is recast as a potentially
loving, free, intimate 'other' woman. Drawing upon feminist
philosophy, contemporary sexual ethics and the current cultural
moment of #MeToo, Mistress Ethics moves beyond a narrative of
infidelity, conventional judgment, the safeguarding of monogamy and
conventional heterosex that permeates our society. It asks what
happens when we let go of our insecurities, judgments and
moralistic relationship philosophies and opt, instead, for an
ethics of kindness. This kindness - underpinned by engaging with
those deemed 'other' and learning from mistresses, both straight
and queer - will teach us new ways of thinking about ethics and
sex, and reveal how we have better sex, and how we can be better to
each other.
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.
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.
This book argues that past inattentive treatment by state criminal
justice agencies in relation to domestic abuse is now being
self-consciously reversed by neoliberal governing agendas intent on
denouncing crime and holding offenders to account. Criminal
prosecutions are key to the UK government's strategy to end
Violence Against Women and Girls. Crown Prosecution Service policy
affirms that domestic abuse offences are 'particularly serious' and
prosecutors are reminded that it will be rare that the 'public
interest' will not require of such offences through the criminal
courts. Seeking to unpick some of the discourses and perspectives
that may have contributed to the current prosecutorial commitment,
the book considers its emergence within the context of the women's
movement, feminist scholarship and an era of neoliberalism. Three
empirical chapters explore the prosecution commitment on the one
hand, and the impact on women's lives on the other. The book's
final substantive chapter offers a distinctive normative conceptual
framework through which practitioners may think about women who
have experienced domestic abuse that will have both intellectual
appeal and practical application.
This volume draws on several decades of advocacy for law reform to
advance gender equality. The essays illustrate the evolution of
dominant theoretical approaches and trace their application to core
issues, such as the meaning of gender, family formation and roles,
equality in the workplace, reproductive rights and violence. The
selections are international in their range and include recent
works that summarize foundational discussions as well as less
well-known articles and essays which capture defining issues with
enduring resonance. Taken together, these articles form the basis
for discussions of recurring themes such as: how best to define and
account for biological, social or cultural differences based on
gender; how the law can recognize historic and ongoing gender
subordination while supporting individuals' autonomy and agency;
and the nature and role of women's sexuality. They exemplify the
ongoing dialectic between well-intentioned reform and unintended
consequences that characterizes ongoing efforts to advance equality
based on gender.
Confronting the patriarchal origins and male-dominated institutions
of international law, over the last several decades serious
thinking about gender and international law has developed into a
flourishing discourse within its host discipline. From the lecture
theatres and conferences of academia to the corridors of
international institutions frequented by non-governmental
organizations, diplomats, and the bureaucrats of international
institutions, gender issues are now placed firmly on the
international-law agenda. Indeed, scholarship on gender and
international law is now an important and dynamic area of critique
that continues to challenge the failures of the political, legal,
and institutional frameworks of international law. As research in
gender and international law continues to flourish, this new
four-volume collection from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Law
series brings together the most influential scholarship to date,
gathering foundational and canonical theoretical work, together
with innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions. It
provides an understanding of the development of the field of gender
and international law, as well as highlighting areas of
thought-provoking research to stimulate future developments in the
field. The first volume in the collection ('Defining Gender and
International Law') assembles key works to illustrate the
development of the field and provide users with a clear
understanding of the concepts, methods, and theoretical
underpinnings of gender and international law. Volume II ('Doing
Gender and International Law: Actors and Institutions') brings
gender and international law to life as an action-orientated field,
theoretically sophisticated, but focused on and contributing to
changes in how international and national law-makers treat gendered
issues. Volume III ('Key Legal Themes in Gender and International
Law') provides an overview of the different legal themes that have
engaged scholars analysing international law from feminist,
women-centred, or gendered perspectives. The scholarship assembled
in the final volume ('Critical Movements and Emerging Issues in
Gender and International Law') collects work that encourages
critical reflections about gendered analyses of contemporary issues
in international law. It also highlights where increased attention
is needed, or where current approaches by feminist international
legal scholars might require further scrutiny. With a full index,
together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the
learned editors, which places the collected material in its
historical and intellectual context, Gender and International Law
is an essential work of reference and will be welcomed by
researchers, advanced students, practitioners, and policy-makers.
Sexual rules and regulations are among society's oldest yet it is
only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized field has become
the focus of scholarly attention. This volume, which includes some
of the most thought-provoking and hard-to-find essays in the field,
covers a diverse range of topics from sexual orientation and gender
identity to intersexuality and commercial sex, and from HIV/AIDS
and trafficking to polygamy. Through historical, political and
critical-theoretical lenses, and through a global focus, the
selections ask how we conceptualize the groups and acts subjected
to sexual regulation and how regulations in the field implicate and
produce understandings of sexuality and identity. By placing this
variety of works together, Sexuality and Equality Law invites fresh
insights into commonalities and synergies across regulatory arenas
that are often isolated from one another. The volume's introduction
situates all of these works in the broader field and offers readers
an extensive bibliography.
This book is an account of the concept of equality from the
perspective of both theory and practice, and presents methods of
quantifying values. It considers both arguments and evidence, and
tackles equality in its different forms, including economic
equality, education, equality before the law, equality of
opportunity, and gender equality. The book shows that inequality is
a profoundly moral question, noting that there are good practical
reasons for its adoption. It presents a consideration of classical
theories from Aristotle to Hume, as well as contemporary approaches
such as those offered by Rawls, Haidt, Temkin, and Parfit. It also
contemplates issues such as the naturalistic fallacy, and considers
what is different about the Goleman view of moral sensitivity and
the ethical personality. The array of evidence includes the impact
of climate and various plants such as sugar and cotton on the slave
trade, the concept of Gaia, Darwinism, sex inequality, personality,
culture, psychological issues, and the quantification of ethics.
The book concludes with some practical suggestions for improving
equality. It aims to raise awareness of the ways in which equality
can be understood, and achieved. It will be relevant to students
and scholars in philosophy, human rights, and law.
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