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'Everyone should read Down Girl. It should be distributed in
schools and every board room, athletic department and legislative
space' - Soraya Chemaly A transformative book on how misogyny works
from a hugely influential thinker Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's
often misunderstood. What is misogyny exactly? Who deserves to be
called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and
why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender
roles are waning? In Down Girl moral philosopher Kate Manne argues
that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the
hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather,
it is primarily about controlling, policing, punishing and exiling
the "bad" women who challenge male dominance. And it is compatible
with rewarding "the good ones" and singling out other women to
serve as warnings to those who are out of order. An incredibly
forensic analysis of the logic of misogyny from a brilliant
thinker, Down Girl is essential reading for the #MeToo era.
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 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.
'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated
on every page with love' -Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat When
Carolyn Hays's child made clear to the family that they were all
wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a girl, the Hays shifted
pronouns, adopted a nickname and encouraged her to dress as she
felt comfortable. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the
Department of Children and Families knocked on their door to
investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their
transgender child. It was this threat that instilled in them a
deep-seated fear for their child's safety in the Republican state
they called home. And so they uprooted their lives to the more
trans-accepting Northeast United States, though they were never far
from the hate and fear resting at the nation's core. Intimate,
lyrical and thought-provoking, A Girlhood is an ode to Hays's
brilliant, brave child, as well as a cathartic revisit of the pain
of the past. It tells of the brutal truths of being trans, of the
sacrificial nature of motherhood, and of the lengths a family will
go to shield their youngest from the cruel realities of the world.
Hays asks us all to love better, for children everywhere who are
enduring injustice and prejudice just as they begin to understand
themselves. A Girlhood is a celebration of difference, a plea for
empathy, and a hope for a better future, but moreover, it is a love
letter to a child who has always known herself and is waiting for
the rest of the world to catch up.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Reproductive justice (RJ) is a pivotal movement that supplants the
language and limitations of reproductive rights. RJ's tenets are
that women have the human rights to decide if or when they'll
become pregnant, whether to carry a pregnancy to term, and to
parent the children they have in safe and healthy environments.
Recognizing the importance of the rights at stake when the law
addresses parenting and procreation, the authors in this book
re-imagine judicial opinions that address the law's treatment of
pregnancy and parenting. The cases cover topics such as forced
sterilization, pregnancy discrimination, criminal penalties for
women who take illegal drugs while pregnant, and state funding for
abortion. Though some of the re-imagined cases come to the same
conclusions as the originals, each rewritten opinion analyzes how
these cases impact the most vulnerable populations, including
people with disabilities, poor women, and women of color.
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.
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