Sex Gender Sexuality And The Law

Author : Samantha Hardy,Olivia Rundle,Damien W. Riggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 0455237506

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Sex, Gender, Sexuality and the Law by Samantha Hardy,Olivia Rundle,Damien W. Riggs Pdf

"In the past decade, people whose bodies, genders or sexualities differ from socially expected norms have become more visible and have been granted greater recognition within the law. Yet despite this, many service providers do not have a strong understanding of the social and legal issues that continue to have a significant impact on these diverse groups of people and their relationships and families. In order to address this knowledge gap, this book brings together research findings from often disparate disciplines into an accessible and useful form for practitioners, as well as for researchers, academics, students, and the general public. Part 1 defines key terms, and addresses the psychosocial and legal issues faced by trans or gender diverse, intersex, and/or non-heterosexual individuals. Part 2 looks at the psychosocial and legal aspects of couple relationships. Part 3 considers parenting and families. Part 4 discusses practical tips for professionals working with this client group, including specific content for lawyers and mediators. As a whole, this book both questions the presumed neutrality of the law, yet insists that it is possible for the law to play a key role in challenging cisgenderism and heterosexism."--Back cover.

Author : Chris Ashford,Alexander Maine
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788111157

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Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law by Chris Ashford,Alexander Maine Pdf

This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices.

Author : Debra L. DeLaet,Renée Ann Cramer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429565878

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Gender, Sexuality, and the Law by Debra L. DeLaet,Renée Ann Cramer Pdf

This volume examines the role of law as a tool for advancing women’s rights and gender equity in local, national, and global contexts. Many feminist scholars note a marked failure of law to achieve goals connected to women’s rights and gender equality. Despite its limitations, law provides aspirational norms that can be mobilized to hold institutions accountable and to provide material benefit to those excluded from systems of power. In conversation with each other, the chapters in this volume help to advance understanding of both the limitations and the potential of law as a tool for advancing democratic participation, rights, and justice around issues related to gender and sexuality. Contributors acknowledge, to varying degrees, that law has important symbolism and may be used as a lever to mobilize change. At the same time, some offer cautionary notes about the potential downside risks and unintended consequences of relying upon law in pursuit of women’s rights and gender equity. Collectively, the chapters in this volume explore the disjuncture between the promise and expectation of legal reform and the lived experience of those laws by people intended as the beneficiaries of legal change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Author : Richard Jochelson,James Gacek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Sex and law
ISBN : 1772582107

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Sexual Regulation and the Law by Richard Jochelson,James Gacek Pdf

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.?

Author : Henry F. Fradella,Jennifer M. Sumner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317528913

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Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)justice by Henry F. Fradella,Jennifer M. Sumner Pdf

Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice covers a wide range of legal issues associated with sexuality, gender, reproduction, and identity. These are critical and sensitive issues that law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals need to understand. The book synthesizes the literature across a wide breadth of perspectives, exposing students to law, psychology, criminal justice, sociology, philosophy, history, and, where relevant, biology, to critically examine the social control of sex, gender, and sexuality across history. Specific federal and state case law and statutes are integrated throughout the book, but the text moves beyond the intersection between law and sexuality to focus just as much on social science as it does on law. This book will be useful in teaching courses in a range of disciplines—especially criminology and criminal justice, history, political science, sociology, women and gender studies, and law.

Author : Jackie Jones,Anna Grear,Rachel Anne Fenton,Kim Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136829239

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Gender, Sexualities and Law by Jackie Jones,Anna Grear,Rachel Anne Fenton,Kim Stevenson Pdf

Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues – both topical and controversial – raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law, persons and the legal profession, along with the gender bias of legal outcomes, has been a fractious, but fertile, focus of reflection. It has, moreover, been an important site of political struggle. This collection of essays offers an unrivalled examination of its various contemporary dimensions, focusing on: issues of theory and representation; violence, both national and international; reproduction and parenting; and partnership, sexuality, marriage and the family. Gender, Sexualities and Law will be invaluable for all those engaged in research and study of the law (and related fields) as a form of gendered power.

Author : Vanessa Munro,Carl Stychin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135308308

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Sexuality and the Law by Vanessa Munro,Carl Stychin Pdf

‘Rediscovering’ the peculiarity of feminist perspectives, rather than the range of gender-oriented analyses, in legal regulation and sexuality, this edited collection avoids the reductionist and essentialist shortcomings of ‘feminism unmodified’.

Author : Julie A. Greenberg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814731895

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Intersexuality and the Law by Julie A. Greenberg Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Bullough Award presented by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality The term “intersex” evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex condition, or DSD (disorder of sex development), are men or women whose sex chromosomes, gonads, or sex anatomy do not fit clearly into the male/female binary norm. Until recently, intersex conditions were shrouded in shame and secrecy: many adults were unaware that they had been born with an intersex condition and those who did know were advised to hide the truth. Current medical protocols and societal treatment of people with an intersex condition are based upon false stereotypes about sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, which create unique challenges to framing effective legal claims and building a strong cohesive movement. In Intersexuality and the Law, Julie A. Greenberg examines the role that legal institutions can play in protecting the rights of people with an intersex condition. She also explores the relationship between the intersex movement and other social justice movements that have effectively utilized legal strategies to challenge similar discriminatory practices. She discusses the feasibility of forming effective alliances and developing mutually beneficial legal arguments with feminists, LGBT organizations, and disability rights advocates to eradicate the discrimination suffered by these marginalized groups.

Author : Elaine Craig
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774821827

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Troubling Sex by Elaine Craig Pdf

When legal scholars or judges approach the subject of sexuality, they are often constrained by existing theoretical frameworks. Queer theorists typically focus on sexual liberty but tend not to consider issues such as sexual violence; feminist theories focus on violence but often ignore the joy of sexuality. Craig examines the Supreme Court of Canada’s approach to sexuality to assess the possibility of devising a legal theory of sexuality that can embrace both the good and the bad, ensuring equality without assimilation, diversity without exclusion, and liberty without suffering. Blending feminist theory with queer theory, she advances an iconoclastic approach to law and sexuality that has the power to transform both theory and practice.

Author : Henry F. Fradella,Jennifer M. Sumner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317528906

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Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)justice by Henry F. Fradella,Jennifer M. Sumner Pdf

Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice covers a wide range of legal issues associated with sexuality, gender, reproduction, and identity. These are critical and sensitive issues that law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals need to understand. The book synthesizes the literature across a wide breadth of perspectives, exposing students to law, psychology, criminal justice, sociology, philosophy, history, and, where relevant, biology, to critically examine the social control of sex, gender, and sexuality across history. Specific federal and state case law and statutes are integrated throughout the book, but the text moves beyond the intersection between law and sexuality to focus just as much on social science as it does on law. This book will be useful in teaching courses in a range of disciplines—especially criminology and criminal justice, history, political science, sociology, women and gender studies, and law.

Author : Michael Gagarin,David Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139826891

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law by Michael Gagarin,David Cohen Pdf

This Companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its development over the last 30 years. Many of the 22 essays, written by an international team of experts, deal with procedural and substantive law in classical Athens, but significant attention is also paid to legal practice in the archaic and Hellenistic eras; areas that offer substantial evidence for legal practice, such as Crete and Egypt; the intersection of law with religion, philosophy, political theory, rhetoric, and drama, as well as the unity of Greek law and the role of writing in law. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among specialists.

Author : Judith Bourne,Caroline Derry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351985178

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Gender and the Law by Judith Bourne,Caroline Derry Pdf

Gender and the Law provides an ideal introduction to gender and feminist theory for students. Beginning with an overview of traditional notions of gender, the book establishes the key feminist and queer legal theories. It provides a basic structure and overview upon which students can build their understanding of some of the complex and controversial topics and debates around gender. Structured thematically, the book explores many fascinating and controversial legal issues, including issues of transgender rights; equal pay and equality in the workplace; societal changes and challenges within the regulation of personal relationships; the law surrounding consent and sexual offences; the role of gender norms in the criminal courts; legal regulation of prostitution and pornography; and the ways in which the law has responded to societal changes surrounding reproduction. With ‘thinking points’ and ‘further reading’ suggestions within each chapter, the authors encourage an engagement with critique and theory in order to understand this dynamic and challenging field.

Author : Elizabeth Comack
Publisher : Halifax, [N.S.] : Fernwood Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Equality before the law
ISBN : 1552662128

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Locating Law by Elizabeth Comack Pdf

One primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the law/society relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both shapes and is shaped by the society in which it operates. This book explores the law/society relation by locating law within the nexus of race/class/gender/sexuality relations in society. Recognizing that inequalities along these lines exist in society raises important questions: What role has law historically played in generating today's inequalities? Is law part of the problem or part of the solution? Can we use law as a strategy to achieve meaningful change? The essays in this new edition of Locating Law demonstrate law's role in a variety of specific contexts, including perpetuating colonialism in Canada, protecting corporations and holding women responsible for sexual violence against them. These analyses are sure to generate discussion and debate and, in the process, enhance our understanding of this important relation between law and society.

Author : Anne Hellum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315518756

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Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity by Anne Hellum Pdf

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book. The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity are analysed in the light of the dynamic jurisprudence of different human rights treaty bodies. Whether and how the status quo of gender duality is reproduced, in spite of international law’s growing recognition of the multiplicity of sexualities and gender identities, is discussed. How transgender men, in countries that permit legal gender change, have been successfully prosecuted for gender fraud by female partners claiming to be unaware of their gender history is given attention. While human rights discourse related to LGBTI persons so far has been moulded on the experiences of adults this book gives voice to the concerns of gender-non confirming children. The jurisprudence of the Child Rights Committee, with focus on the complex social and legal issues faced by gender non-confirming children, is addressed. Through narratives, that give voice to these children’s experiences, the book demonstrates how the legal gender assigned at birth impacts on their feeling of recognition, self-confidence and self-respect in the private, social, and legal spheres. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Susan S. M. Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sex discrimination against women
ISBN : OCLC:1335929431

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Gender, Sex and the Law by Susan S. M. Edwards Pdf