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Gender, justice, and the law : theoretical practices of intersectional identity
Title
Gender, justice, and the law : theoretical practices of intersectional identity / edited by Elaine Wood.
ISBN
9781683932390
1683932390
9781683932406
Publication
Vancouver ; Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Gender justice and the law. Vancouver ; Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2021]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2021
Series
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Elaine Wood
I: Praxis and policy
Constructing criminality : R v. Gladue, intersectionality, and the criminalization of indigenous women / Arunita Das
Losing custodial mothers in child support reform / Laura Lane-Steele
Justice, gender, and caste : a case for Dalit feminist testimonio / Lissa Lincoln
Dehumanization "because of" sex : the multiaxial approach to the Title VII rights of sexual minorities / Shirley Lin
II: Policing bodies
Divorce ruling without consent : gender, penal law, and the faminized body in Nuala O'Faolain's My dream of you / Christin M. Mulligan
Gender and justice in international human rights law : the need for an intersectional feminist approach to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights / Rebecca Smyth
"Like cats and dogs in the streets" : disability and sexuality in the eugenic legal imagination / Lisa Beckmann
Victims of state violence : indigenous and women-of- color sex workers' interactions with law enforcement in Canada / Menaka Raguparan
III: Activist politics of resistance
Intersections of gender and (in)justice : Bibi Titi Mohamed and women's struggles during and after independence in Tanzania / Catherine Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch
Policing and place-making : trans* persecution and resilience / Ava Ladner
Becoming Theodore : spatial legal consciousness and transgender name changes / Theodore Davenport
The Model speaks? : obscenity laws in the United States / John Felipe Acevedo.
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