Misjustice : how British law is failing women / Helena Kennedy.

London : Vintage, 2019.

©2018

KD734 .K46 2019

9781784707682 (pbk.)
1784707686
9781473572195 (ePub ebook)

344 pages ; 20 cm

(OCoLC)1108694969

"What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice. In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called 'lifestyle' choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current rules on excluding victims' sexual history from rape trials; battered wives being asked why they don{u2019}t 'just leave' their partners; the way statistics hide the double discrimination experienced by BAME and disabled women; the failure to prosecute cases of female genital mutilation... the list goes on. The law holds up a mirror to society and it is failing women. The #MeToo campaign has been in part a reaction to those failures. So what comes next? How do we codify what we've learned? In this [book, the author] shows with force and fury that change for women must start at the heart of what makes society just."--Provided by publisher.

"First published in hardback by Chatto & Windus in 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

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