Gender Perceptions and the Law

ISBN-13: 9781138316416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 147 str.

Christine R. Barker; Elizabeth A. Kirk

Opis

Published in 1998. This collection of papers, written by leading lawyers and sociologists in the UK, examine gender roles, the legal rights of individuals and the impact on procedures to enforce rights.

Recenzje

’...informative and instructive...served to whet one’s appetite and peak one’s interest...will be particularly beneficial to the comparative and/or international law scholar within the applicable subject matter areas of family law, criminal law and equal rights.’ The law and Politics

Spis treści

1. Negotiating Parenthood : Bargaining in the Shadow of a New Law, Carol Smart.  2. Two Contemporary Problems of Family Law – of Fast Track Mothers in Custody Disputes and the Feminisation of Poverty in Later Life, Alastair Bissett-Johnson.  3. ‘Come Out and Fight Like a Woman’: Gender Differences in Violent Behaviour, Gerda Siann.  4. Gender and Sentencing, Neil Hutton.  5. The Influence of European Law on Sex Equality Laws, Muriel Robinson.  6. Pornography and Gender Equality, Beverley Brown.  7. (Homo) Sexual Citizenship, David T. Evans.

O autorze

Christine R. Barker, Elizabeth A. Kirk, Monica Sah