The New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach

ISBN-13: 9780815398028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Laura Beth Nielsen

Opis

First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality and draws on narratives of individuals to provide an understanding of what happens when law interacts with other forms of social organization.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface: On legal rights consciousness: a challenging analytical tradition, Michael Mccann. Introduction: a constitutive perspective of rights, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen.Part I Rights in Practice: 'That's Right': Truth, justice, and the legal consciousness of educational activists, Idit Kostiner; Who manages feminist-inspired reform?: an in-depth look at Title IX coordinators, Judith Taylor; Legal consciousness and workplace rights, Catherine Albiston; LGBT family rights, legal consciousness, and the dilemma of difference, Kimberly D. Richman; Consciousness in context: employees' views of sexual harassment grievance procedures, Anna-Maria Marshall. Part II Contested Rights: On-the-job sexual harassment: how labels enable men to discriminate through sexual harassment and exclusion, Elizabeth A. Hoffmann; The 'Seesaw Effect' from racial profiling to depolicing: toward a critical cultural theory, Frank Rudy Cooper; Keeping rights alive: the struggle for HIV infected prisoners, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Jessica Hodge.Part III The Future of Rights Research: When the saints go marching in: legal consciousness and prison experiences of conscientious objectors to military service in Israel, Hadar Aviram; Time, legal consciousness and power: the case of France's 35 work hour workweek laws, J me P‘sse; The power of place: public space and rights consciousness, Laura Beth Nielsen; Index.

O autorze

Laura Beth Nielsen