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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812413403321

Titolo

Feminist perspectives on tort law / / edited by Janice Richardson and Erika Rackley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-33535-8

1-280-68245-0

9786613659392

1-136-33536-6

0-203-12282-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

GlassHouse book

Altri autori (Persone)

RackleyErika

RichardsonJanice <1961->

Disciplina

346.4203

Soggetti

Torts - England

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - England

Torts - Wales

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Wales

Torts

Feminist jurisprudence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Janice Richardson and Erika Rackley -- Duty of care and ethic of care: irreconcilable difference? / Jenny Steele -- Endgame: on negligence and reparation for harm / Nicky Priaulx -- Pollution and the body boundary: exploring scale, gender and remedy / Dayna Nadine Scott -- Trust in the police? police negligence, invisible immunity and disadvantaged claimants / Kirsty Horsey -- Knowledge and power in drug testing and promotion: the adverse effects on women's health / Patricia Peppin -- The standard of care in medical negligence: still reasonably troublesome? / JoseĢ Miola -- If i cannot have her everybody can: sexual disclosure and privacy law / Janice Richardson -- Tort claims for rape: more trials, fewer tribulations? / Nikki Godden --



Sexual wrongdoing: do the remedies reflect the wrong? / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey -- Damaging stereotypes: the return of "Hoovering as a hobby" / Reg Graycar.

Sommario/riassunto

Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law. Ten original essays written by feminist legal scholars from the UK, US, Canada and Australia encompass a range of ways of thinking about women, tort law and feminism. The collection provides a fresh and original analysis of issues of long-standing concern to feminists as well as nascent areas of concern. These include conceptions of harm, constructions of reasonableness, the duty of care, the public/private divide, sexual wrongdoing, privacy and environmental law.Written with both