Rethinking Equality Projects in Law

Feminist Challenges

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Av Rosemary Hunter, UK) Hunter, Professor Rosemary (Loughborough University

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The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for women, feminists have come to challenge the usefulness of equality as a concept, a particular definition, or a basis for strategising. The papers in this collection reflect these concerns, primarily in the context of English-speaking, common law cultures. Collectively, the papers analyse a range of equality projects across a number of areas of public and private law, considering both competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it. In taking stock across a century and a half and around the globe, the book illustrates the range of ways in which equality projects in law have been challenged by, and remain a challenge for, feminism.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-07-29
Mått156 x 234 x 10 mm
Vikt332 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOñati International Series in Law and Society
Antal sidor204
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781841138398

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Introduction: Feminism and EqualityRosemary HunterPart I Equality Projects in Law Reform1. The Married Women’s Property Acts: Equality Was Not the IssueRosemary Auchmuty2. The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality ConceptsHeather Douglas3. Is Equality Enough? Fathers’ Rights and Women’s Rights AdvocacySusan B Boyd4. Alternatives to EqualityRosemary HunterPart II Constitutional Equality Projects5. Equality Rights: What’s Wrong?Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan6. Haunting (In)equalitiesKarin Van MarlePart III Personal Equality Projects in the Legal Profession7. Gender Equality and Legal Professionalism: Challenges for the First Women LawyersMary Jane Mossman8. That Obscure Object of Desire: Sex Equality and the Legal ProfessionHilary Sommerlad

...a good primer to a rich set of theoretical arguments and debates, providing a solid overview, not just of international legal development through a feminist lens, but also feminist thought more generally. The extensive footnotes will be prized by law and APD scholars, as well as those looking at projects relating to the expression of gender in institutions more broadly. The collection represents a great effort by Hunter and her colleagues.