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1 Online-Ressource (201 p)
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Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781472564429
Series Statement:
Oñati international series in law and society
Content:
Introduction: Feminism and Equality -- Rosemary Hunter -- Part I Equality Projects in Law Reform -- 1. The Married Women's Property Acts: Equality Was Not the Issue -- Rosemary Auchmuty -- 2. The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts -- Heather Douglas -- 3. Is Equality Enough? Fathers' Rights and Women's Rights Advocacy -- Susan B Boyd -- 4. Alternatives to Equality -- Rosemary Hunter -- Part II Constitutional Equality Projects -- 5. Equality Rights: What's Wrong? -- Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan -- 6. Haunting (In)equalities -- Karin Van Marle -- Part III Personal Equality Projects in the Legal Profession -- 7. Gender Equality and Legal Professionalism: Challenges for the First Women Lawyers -- Mary Jane Mossman -- 8. That Obscure Object of Desire: Sex Equality and the Legal Profession -- Hilary Sommerlad
Content:
The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for women, feminists have come to challenge the usefulness of equality as a concept, a particular definition, or a basis for strategising. The papers in this collection reflect these concerns, primarily in the context of English-speaking, common law cultures. Collectively, the papers analyse a range of equality projects across a number of areas of public and private law, considering both competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it. In taking stock across a century and a half and around the globe, the book illustrates the range of ways in which equality projects in law have been challenged by, and remain a challenge for, feminism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Papers originally presented at the Workshop on Revisiting Equality, held at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law in July 2006
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781841138404
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847314499
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Available in another form
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472564429
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