The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

ISBN-13: 9781108713306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

With systematic, thematic chapters, this volume demonstrates how law and gender co-produce gendered legal subjects.

Spis treści

From law and gender to law as gender: the legal subject and the co-production hypothesis; Part I. Bodies: 1. The sexed subject Marie-Xaviere Catto and Stefano Osella; 2. The foetal subject: law, gender and embodiment Michael Thomson; 3. The terrorized subject: a critique of 'women', 'gender violence' and 'vulnerability' as legal categories Márcia Nina Bernardes and Sofia Martins; 4. The sexual subject: recasting the sexual citizen Melissa Murray; Part II. Functions: 5. The working subject: the collusion of law and gender in the construction of working subjects Joanne Conaghan; 6. The reproductive subject: the reproductive subject and the embodied state of international human rights law Joanna N. Erdman; 7. The caring subject Jonathan Herring; Part III. Communities: 8. The national subject Melanie Toombs and Kim Rubenstein; 9. The familial subject Fernanda G. Nicola and Ann Shalleck; 10. The political subject Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez and Ruth Rubio Marin.