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This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars
from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to
discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human
rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent. It seeks to
raise consciousness at the intersection of gender, identity, and
human rights as it relates to Arabs at home and throughout the
diaspora. The context of revolution and the destabilizing impact of
armed conflicts in the region are used to critique and examine the
utility of human rights law to address contemporary human rights
issues through extralegal strategies. To this end, the volume seeks
to inform, educate, persuade, and facilitate newer or less-heard
perspectives related to gender and masculinities theories. It
provides readers with new ways of understanding gender and human
rights and proposes forward-looking solutions to implementing human
rights norms. The goal of this book is to use the context of Arabs
at home and throughout the diaspora to critique and examine the
utility of human rights norms and laws to diminish human suffering
with the goal of transforming the structural, social, and cultural
conditions that impede access to human rights. This book will be of
interest to a diverse audience of scholars, students, public policy
researchers, lawyers and the educated public interested in the
fields of human rights law, international studies, gender politics,
migration and diaspora, and Middle East and North African politics.
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.
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of
prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and
incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this
anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial
and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights,
and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials explores the
organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized
and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence
mobilizations. This activism confronted a "tough on crime"
political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women's movement's
strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to
sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival
research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the
stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based
local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures
that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a
crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle--one that continues in
today's movements against mass incarceration and in support of
transformative justice.
This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with
everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born
with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical
binary notions about male and female bodies. Covering a wide
variety of topics in an easy-to-read way, the book explores what
intersex is, what it is not, a detailed overview of its 40 or so
different variations, historical and social aspects of intersex and
medical intervention, along with practical, proven advice on how
professionals can help and support intersex people. Written by an
intersex man with over 65 years of first-hand experience, this book
is an ideal introduction for any medical, health and social care
professional or student, as well as family members and friends,
seeking to improve their practice and knowledge.
The Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project inaugurates a fresh
dialogue on gender, legal judgment, judicial power and national
identity in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Through a process of
judicial re-imagining, the project takes account of the peculiarly
Northern/Irish concerns in shaping gender through judicial
practice. This collection, following on from feminist judgments
projects in Canada, England and Australia takes the feminist
judging methodology in challenging new directions. This book
collects 26 rewritten judgments, covering a range of substantive
areas. As well as opinions from appellate courts, the book includes
fi rst instance decisions and a fi ctional review of a Tribunal of
Inquiry. Each feminist judgment is accompanied by a commentary
putting the case in its social context and explaining the original
decision. The book also includes introductory chapters examining
the project methodology, constructions of national identity,
theoretical and conceptual issues pertaining to feminist judging,
and the legal context of both jurisdictions. The book, shines a
light on past and future possibilities - and limitations - for
judgment on the island of Ireland. 'This book provides a rich and
expansive addition to the feminist judgments catalogue. The ...
judgments demonstrate powerfully how Northern/Irish judges have
contributed to the gendered politics of national identity, and how
the narrow subject-positions they have created for women and
'others' could have been so much wider and more open.' Professor
Rosemary Hunter, School of Law, Queen Mary University London. 'The
Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project is inspirational reading
for anyone interested in feminism or Irish studies ... It is a
model of how to conduct feminist enquiry. Its most innovative
contribution to scholarship and politics is how the rewriting of
landmark legal judgments from a feminist perspective allows us to
imagine (and therefore begin to construct) a more egalitarian, a
more just, future.' Associate Professor Katherine O'Donnell, School
of Philosophy, University College Dublin. If you let it, this book
will make you think. ... It made me think - it reminded me, I
suppose - that legal writing can be wonderful: rigorous, creative,
deeply observant, provocative. Read it and see what it makes you
think. Professor Therese Murphy, School of Law, Queen's University
Belfast
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.
In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that
seek to address the "balance" between work and family. Millions of
women in the U.S. take some time off when they give birth or adopt
a child, making use of "family-friendly" laws and policies in order
to spend time recuperating and to initiate a bond with their
children. The Balance Gap traces the paths individual women take in
understanding and invoking work/life balance laws and policies.
Conducting in-depth interviews with women in two distinctive
workplace settings-public universities and the U.S. military-Sarah
Cote Hampson uncovers how women navigate the laws and the unspoken
cultures of their institutions. Activists and policymakers hope
that family-friendly law and policy changes will not only increase
women's participation in the workplace, but also help women
experience greater workplace equality. As Hampson shows, however,
these policies and women's abilities to understand and utilize them
have fallen short of fully alleviating the tensions that women
across the nation are still grappling with as they try to reconcile
their work and family responsibilities.
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