Author : Didi Herman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780485004090
The essays in this book explore a wide range of themes of current interest and controversy, with a particular focus on lesbian and gay issues, nationality postcoloniality, sexuality and criminality, and the politics of rights struggles.>
Author : Vanessa Munro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135308306
‘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 : M. Waites
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230505937
The Age of Consent; Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship addresses the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated. The text includes: ·A unique history of age of consent laws in the UK, analysed via contemporary social theory ·A global comparative survey of age of consent laws and relevant international human rights law ·A critical analysis of how protectionist agendas shaped new age of consent laws in England and Wales in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 ·In-depth theoretical discussion of the rationale for age of consent laws ·An original proposal to reduce the age of consent to 14 for young people who are less than two years apart in age Responding to contemporary concerns about young people's sexual behaviour, sexual abuse and paedophilia, this book will engage readers in law and socio-legal studies, sociology, history, politics, social policy, youth and childhood studies, and gender and sexuality studies; and professionals and practitioners working with young people.
Author : Fiona Cownie
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 1841130613
This book explores the culture of legal academia, the professional identities of law teachers and the issues facing the discipline of law.
Author : Sue Westwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317431693
Ageing, Gender and Sexuality focuses on the experiences of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals, in order to analyse how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to produce particular inequalities relating to resources, recognition and representation in later life. The book adopts a feminist socio-legal perspective to propose that these inequalities are informed by and play out in relation to temporal, spatial and regulatory contexts. Discussing topics such as ageing sexual subjectivities, ageing kinship formations, classed trajectories and anticipated care futures, this book provides a new perspective on older individuals in same-sex relationships, including those who choose not to label their sexualities. Drawing upon recent empirical data, the book offers new theoretical approaches for understanding the intersectionality of ageing, gender and sexuality, as well as analysing the social policy implications of these findings. With an emphasis on the accounts of individuals who have experienced the dramatically changing socio-legal landscape for LGB people first-hand, this book is essential reading for students, scholars and policymakers working in the areas of: gender and sexuality studies; ageing studies and gerontology; gender, sexuality and law; equality and human rights; sociology; socio-legal studies; and social policy. Ageing, Gender and Sexuality won the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Hart Prize for Early Career Academics for 2017.
Author : Jon Binnie
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761959366
Explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence.
Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 047069291X
The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various theoretical, methodological, and political commitments, creating the first truly global overview of the field. Examines the relationship between law and social interactions in thirty-three original essay by international experts in the field. Reflects the world-wide significance of North American law and society scholarship. Addresses classical areas and new themes in law and society research, including: the gap between law on the books and law in action; the complexity of institutional processes; the significance of new media; and the intersections of law and identity. Engages the exciting work now being done in England, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, as well as "Third World" scholarship.
Author : Carl Franklin Stychin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780816638703
Law and Sexuality brings together leading scholars from four continents to consider topics ranging from Tasmanian sodomy laws to the South African constitution, from domestic partnership in Hawaii to London's urban geographies. Encompassing a broad spectrum of perspectives, from literary analysis and postcolonial studies to feminist, queer, and critical race theory, their analysis maps the current state of the global intersections between law and sexuality and social change.
Author : Adrian Howe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135331049
What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what happens when you make men’s violence against women the subject of a conversation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all hell breaks loose. Adrian Howe explores some of the ways in which this persistent and pervasive form of violence has been named and unnamed as a significant social problem in western countries over the past four decades. Addressing what she calls the ‘Man’ question-so named because it pays attention to the discursive place occupied, or more usually vacated, by men in accounts of their violence against women-she explores what happens when that violence is placed on the criminological and political agenda. Written in a theoretically-informed yet accessible style, Sex, Violence and Crime-Foucault and the ‘Man’ Question provides a novel and highly original approach to questions of sex and violence in contemporary western society. Directed at criminologists, students and, more widely, at anyone interested in these issues, it challenges readers to come to grips with postmodern feminist reconceptualisations of the fraught relationship between sex, violence and crime in order to better combat men’s violence against women and children.
Author : Catherine Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1134327633
This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable and the legal system which encourages homogeneity and conformity in decision-making and shows how the legal constraints confronting women claiming sexual assaults are enormous. It includes analysis of specific case studies and a discussion of recent moves to address the problem.
