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Gender and justice : why women in the judiciary really matter / / Sally J. Kenney
| Gender and justice : why women in the judiciary really matter / / Sally J. Kenney |
| Autore | Kenney Sally Jane |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 347.73/14082 |
| Collana | Perspectives on gender |
| Soggetto topico |
Women judges - United States
Sex discrimination in justice administration - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-60693-3
9786613919380 1-136-33207-3 0-203-12229-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Gender as a Social Process; What's the Problem? Why So Few Women?; Once We Find Women We Fall into Looking for Difference; Women Judges Largely Reject Framing Themselves as Different; Feminist Theory's Detour into Difference; Women Judges Signify Both Business as Usual and Radical Transformation Simultaneously; The Dangers of Difference; Individuals Matter; Life Experiences Matter; Moving from Sex as a Variable that Uncovers Difference to Gender as a Social Process; A Woman Who Will Get to Decide Cases
From Describing Women to Gendering Concepts: The Plan of the Book2 Gender, Judging, and Difference; Introduction; Has Gender Replaced Sex? Is It a Noun, an Adjective, or a Verb?; Using Sex as a Variable Can Uncover Discrimination; Using Sex as a Variable to Determine whether Women Judge Differently from Men; Studies of Other Effects of Women on the Bench; Conclusion; 3 Mobilizing Emotions: The Case of Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Supreme Court; Women and State Supreme Courts: Policy Diffusion and Norms; The Symbolic Politics of Judicial Appointments; The Case of Rosalie Wahl; Wahl as Symbol Conclusion4 Strategic Partnerships and Women on the Federal Bench; Feminists Engage the State; Carter Puts Gender on the Agenda; Feminist Policy Achievements; The Issue of Judicial Selection; Carter and Feminists; After Carter; 5 Gender on the Agenda: Lessons from the United Kingdom; Introduction; The Concept of Agenda-Setting; Was the Absence of Women a Problem?; Changes that Created a More Receptive Climate; The Lord Chancellor and Legal Profession Are Gatekeepers that Keep Out Women; Reform of the Judicial Selection Process; Litigation Helps Change the Discourse and Reframe the Issue Conclusion: Reforming the Process, Disappointing Results6 A Case for Representation: The European Court of Justice; A Gender Theory of a Representative Judiciary; History of Judicial Appointments to the European Court of Justice; The First Women Members; The European Parliament Champions the Appointment of Women; Developments Post-1995; Litigation Frames Women's Absence as Discrimination; Making Gender Representation an Explicit Requirement; Organizing and Mobilizing for Women; Representation and the Judiciary; Conclusion; 7 Backlash against Women Judges; The Concept of Backlash The Five Kinds of Backlash against Women JudgesThe Case of Rose Bird; The Rise of Chief Justice Rose Bird; The Reaction to Bird's Appointment; Understanding Bird's Downfall; The Role that Gender Played; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion: Drawing on the History of Women's Exclusion from Juries to Make the Case for a Gender-Diverse Judiciary; Women's Exclusion from Juries: A Woman's Flavor?; The Case for a Gender-Diverse Bench; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462453103321 |
Kenney Sally Jane
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| New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gender and justice : why women in the judiciary really matter / / Sally J. Kenney
| Gender and justice : why women in the judiciary really matter / / Sally J. Kenney |
| Autore | Kenney Sally Jane |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 347.73/14082 |
| Collana | Perspectives on gender |
| Soggetto topico |
Women judges - United States
Sex discrimination in justice administration - United States |
| ISBN |
1-136-33206-5
1-283-60693-3 9786613919380 1-136-33207-3 0-203-12229-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Gender as a Social Process; What's the Problem? Why So Few Women?; Once We Find Women We Fall into Looking for Difference; Women Judges Largely Reject Framing Themselves as Different; Feminist Theory's Detour into Difference; Women Judges Signify Both Business as Usual and Radical Transformation Simultaneously; The Dangers of Difference; Individuals Matter; Life Experiences Matter; Moving from Sex as a Variable that Uncovers Difference to Gender as a Social Process; A Woman Who Will Get to Decide Cases
From Describing Women to Gendering Concepts: The Plan of the Book2 Gender, Judging, and Difference; Introduction; Has Gender Replaced Sex? Is It a Noun, an Adjective, or a Verb?; Using Sex as a Variable Can Uncover Discrimination; Using Sex as a Variable to Determine whether Women Judge Differently from Men; Studies of Other Effects of Women on the Bench; Conclusion; 3 Mobilizing Emotions: The Case of Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Supreme Court; Women and State Supreme Courts: Policy Diffusion and Norms; The Symbolic Politics of Judicial Appointments; The Case of Rosalie Wahl; Wahl as Symbol Conclusion4 Strategic Partnerships and Women on the Federal Bench; Feminists Engage the State; Carter Puts Gender on the Agenda; Feminist Policy Achievements; The Issue of Judicial Selection; Carter and Feminists; After Carter; 5 Gender on the Agenda: Lessons from the United Kingdom; Introduction; The Concept of Agenda-Setting; Was the Absence of Women a Problem?; Changes that Created a More Receptive Climate; The Lord Chancellor and Legal Profession Are Gatekeepers that Keep Out Women; Reform of the Judicial Selection Process; Litigation Helps Change the Discourse and Reframe the Issue Conclusion: Reforming the Process, Disappointing Results6 A Case for Representation: The European Court of Justice; A Gender Theory of a Representative Judiciary; History of Judicial Appointments to the European Court of Justice; The First Women Members; The European Parliament Champions the Appointment of Women; Developments Post-1995; Litigation Frames Women's Absence as Discrimination; Making Gender Representation an Explicit Requirement; Organizing and Mobilizing for Women; Representation and the Judiciary; Conclusion; 7 Backlash against Women Judges; The Concept of Backlash The Five Kinds of Backlash against Women JudgesThe Case of Rose Bird; The Rise of Chief Justice Rose Bird; The Reaction to Bird's Appointment; Understanding Bird's Downfall; The Role that Gender Played; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion: Drawing on the History of Women's Exclusion from Juries to Make the Case for a Gender-Diverse Judiciary; Women's Exclusion from Juries: A Woman's Flavor?; The Case for a Gender-Diverse Bench; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785744503321 |
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Kenney Sally Jane
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| New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gender and justice : why women in the judiciary really matter / / Sally J. Kenney
| Gender and justice : why women in the judiciary really matter / / Sally J. Kenney |
| Autore | Kenney Sally Jane |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 347.73/14082 |
| Collana | Perspectives on gender |
| Soggetto topico |
Women judges - United States
Sex discrimination in justice administration - United States |
| ISBN |
1-136-33206-5
1-283-60693-3 9786613919380 1-136-33207-3 0-203-12229-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Gender as a Social Process; What's the Problem? Why So Few Women?; Once We Find Women We Fall into Looking for Difference; Women Judges Largely Reject Framing Themselves as Different; Feminist Theory's Detour into Difference; Women Judges Signify Both Business as Usual and Radical Transformation Simultaneously; The Dangers of Difference; Individuals Matter; Life Experiences Matter; Moving from Sex as a Variable that Uncovers Difference to Gender as a Social Process; A Woman Who Will Get to Decide Cases
From Describing Women to Gendering Concepts: The Plan of the Book2 Gender, Judging, and Difference; Introduction; Has Gender Replaced Sex? Is It a Noun, an Adjective, or a Verb?; Using Sex as a Variable Can Uncover Discrimination; Using Sex as a Variable to Determine whether Women Judge Differently from Men; Studies of Other Effects of Women on the Bench; Conclusion; 3 Mobilizing Emotions: The Case of Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Supreme Court; Women and State Supreme Courts: Policy Diffusion and Norms; The Symbolic Politics of Judicial Appointments; The Case of Rosalie Wahl; Wahl as Symbol Conclusion4 Strategic Partnerships and Women on the Federal Bench; Feminists Engage the State; Carter Puts Gender on the Agenda; Feminist Policy Achievements; The Issue of Judicial Selection; Carter and Feminists; After Carter; 5 Gender on the Agenda: Lessons from the United Kingdom; Introduction; The Concept of Agenda-Setting; Was the Absence of Women a Problem?; Changes that Created a More Receptive Climate; The Lord Chancellor and Legal Profession Are Gatekeepers that Keep Out Women; Reform of the Judicial Selection Process; Litigation Helps Change the Discourse and Reframe the Issue Conclusion: Reforming the Process, Disappointing Results6 A Case for Representation: The European Court of Justice; A Gender Theory of a Representative Judiciary; History of Judicial Appointments to the European Court of Justice; The First Women Members; The European Parliament Champions the Appointment of Women; Developments Post-1995; Litigation Frames Women's Absence as Discrimination; Making Gender Representation an Explicit Requirement; Organizing and Mobilizing for Women; Representation and the Judiciary; Conclusion; 7 Backlash against Women Judges; The Concept of Backlash The Five Kinds of Backlash against Women JudgesThe Case of Rose Bird; The Rise of Chief Justice Rose Bird; The Reaction to Bird's Appointment; Understanding Bird's Downfall; The Role that Gender Played; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion: Drawing on the History of Women's Exclusion from Juries to Make the Case for a Gender-Diverse Judiciary; Women's Exclusion from Juries: A Woman's Flavor?; The Case for a Gender-Diverse Bench; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810201403321 |
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Kenney Sally Jane
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| New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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