Legal feminisms : theory and practice / edited by Clare McGlynn.
1998
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Title
Legal feminisms : theory and practice / edited by Clare McGlynn.
Published
Aldershot, Hants ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
K349 .L44 1998
ISBN
1855219271
Description
xiii, 219 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37640625
Summary
"This collection of essays has its genesis in the Newcastle Law School conference Women and the Law : from theory to practice which was held ... 31st August 1996."--Intro.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction / Clare McGlynn
Pt. I
Perspectives on Sex, Gender and the Legal Profession
1The Gendering of the Professional Subject: Commitment, Choice and Social Closure in the Legal Profession / Hilary Sommerlad
3
2(Un)Sexy Bodies: The Making of Professional Legal Masculinities / Richard Collier
21
Pt. II
Interdisciplinary and Theoretical Perspectives
3Fabled Explanations of Bias / Katherine O'Donovan
49
4When Mercy Seasons Justice: Shakespeare's Woman Lawyer / Ian Ward
63
5Rape Law: Harbouring an Implicit Relation between Law and Psychology / Fiona E. Raitt M. Suzanne Zeedyk
85
6The Business of Equality / Clare McGlynn
101
Pt. III
International, European and Comparative Perspectives
7Contextualising International Women's Rights: Canadian Feminism, Race and Culture / David S. Berry
119
8Women and Water Law: from Theory to Practice / Elizabeth A. Kirk Jenny A. Tooze
135
9Women's Law and Cultural Understandings of Gender in Finland / Anu Pylkkanen
151
10Special Protection of Women's Rights in China / Junping He
165
11A Place for Maternity in the European Union / Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella
179
12The Construction of Women in the Non-Consensual Sterilisation Debate: Why a Feminist Analysis is Needed / Mary Donnelly
197
Index
211