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Record Nr.

UNINA9910289332803321

Autore

Atkins Susan

Titolo

Women and the law / / Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, 2018

London : , : University of London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, , 2018

ISBN

1-911507-12-5

9781911507109

978-1-911507-12-3

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (284 p.)

Collana

OBServing Law

Classificazione

KN152.2

Disciplina

342.4108/78

Soggetti

Gender & the law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Fist edition published by Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1984

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index (pages 251 – 258)

Nota di contenuto

The historical legacy -- Equality at work -- Beyond equality of opportunity -- Sexuality -- Motherhood -- Breadwinners and homemakers : partners or dependants? -- Power and violence in the home -- The case against marriage? -- The welfare state : social security and taxation  -- Citizenship.

Sommario/riassunto

Women And The Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. Originally published in 1984, this seminal text is one that truly deserves its 'groundbreaking' moniker. Predating many key moments in contemporary feminist history, it was written before Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble; before Naomi Klein’s The Beauty Myth, with the term ‘feminist jurisprudence’ having only been coined three years earlier. It went on to inspire a legion of women lawyers and feminist legal rulings, from the Family Law Act 1996 to the legal definition of ‘violence’ (Yemshaw v. LB Hounslow 2011). This 2018 edition comes with a new foreword by Susan Atkins and provides a timely analysis of women in law forty years on, how much has changed and the work still left to do.