1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142148503321

Autore

Truong Tanh-Dam

Titolo

Migration, Gender and Social Justice [[electronic resource] ] : Perspectives on Human Insecurity / / edited by Thanh-Dam Truong, Des Gasper, Jeff Handmaker, Sylvia I. Bergh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2014

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-28012-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, , 1865-5793 ; ; 9

Disciplina

305.48412

Soggetti

Sociology

Emigration and immigration

International humanitarian law

Human rights

Anthropology

Public law 

Gender Studies

Migration

International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict

Human Rights

Public Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Section I: Introduction – migration, gender and social justice: the research and policy agendas -- Section II: Transformation of social reproduction systems and migration: local-global interactions -- Section III: The state and female internal migration: Rights and livelihood security -- Section IV: Complexity of gender: embodiment and intersectionality -- Section V: Liminal legality, citizenship and migrant rights mobilization -- Section VI: Conclusion – the complexities of migration research-policy interactions -- Annex A - Portfolio of Migration Projects, 2006-2009 (21 May 2009) -- Women’s



Rights and Citizenship Program -- Annex B - Profile of the Editors.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam spearheaded a project intended to distill and refine the research findings, connecting them to broader literatures and interdisciplinary themes. The book examines commonalities and differences in the operation of various structures of power (gender, class, race/ethnicity, generation) and their interactions within the institutional domains of intra-national and especially inter-national migration that produce context-specific forms of social injustice. Additional contributions have been included so as to cover issues of legal liminality and how the social construction of not only femininity but also masculinity affects all migrants and all women. The resulting set of 19 detailed, interconnected case studies makes a valuable contribution to reorienting our perceptions and values in the discussions and decision-making concerning migration, and to raising awareness of key issues in migrants’ rights.  All chapters were anonymously peer-reviewed. This book resulted from a series of projects funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910554266803321

Autore

Gary Brett

Titolo

Dirty works : obscenity on trial in America's first sexual revolution / / Brett Gary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781503628694

1503628698

9781503627598

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (434 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

345.7470274

Soggetti

Trials (Obscenity) - History - United States - 20th century

Obscenity (Law) - History - United States - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Moral guardians and sexual modernists -- Fighting for sexual education : Mary Ware Dennett vs. postal power -- Women's right to sexual pleasure : Marie Stopes vs. Customs Authority -- The taboo of inversion : Radclyffe Hall and literary censorship -- The vomit school of literature : fighting censorship in NYC -- Defending literary genius : James Joyce's Ulysses on trial -- Battles for birth control : Margaret Sanger and the moral authority of doctors -- The allure of the erotic : Alfred Kinsey and sexual science, 1947-1957 -- From the first to the second sexual revolution -- Epilogue : Morris Ernst's complicated legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book focuses on a series of courtroom cases that were all represented by the same lawyer: Morris L. Ernst. Ernst's clients included European and American literati and sexual activists, among them Margaret Sanger, James Joyce, and Alfred Kinsey. They, along with a cast of burlesque theater owners and bookstore clerks, had run afoul of strict obscenity laws, and became actors in Ernst's legal theater that ultimately forced the law to recognize people's right to freely consume media. In this book, Brett Gary recovers the critically neglected Ernst as the most important legal defender of literary expression and



reproductive rights by the mid-twentieth century. Each chapter centers on one or more key trials from Ernst's career battling censorship and obscenity laws, using them to tell a broader story of cultural changes and conflicts around sex, morality, and free speech ideals. These trials sets the stage, legally and culturally, for the sexual revolution of the 1960s and beyond. In the latter half of the century, the courts had a powerful body of precedents, many owing to Ernst's courtroom successes, that recognized adult interests in sexuality, women's needs for reproductive control, and the legitimacy of sexual inquiry"--Provided by the publisher.