Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges

by David Nelken (Editor), Rosemary Hunter (Editor)

Overview

This book analyses a range of equality projects across public and private law, considering competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841138404
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/01/2008
Series:	Oñati International Series in Law and Society
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rosemary Hunter is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent, Canterbury, the Academic Editor of Feminist Legal Studies, and Chair of the RCSL Working Group on Gender and Law.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Feminism and Equality Rosemary Hunter 1

Part I Equality Projects in Law Reform

1 The Married Women's Property Acts: Equality Was Not the Issue Rosemary Auchmuty 13

2 The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts Heather Douglas 41

3 Is Equality Enough? Fathers' Rights and Women's Rights Advocacy Susan B Boyd 59

4 Alternatives to Equality Rosemary Hunter 81

Part II Constitutional Equality Projects

5 Equality Rights: What's Wrong? Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan 105

6 Haunting (In) equalities Karin Van Marle 125

Part III Personal Equality Projects in the Legal Profession

7 Gender Equality and Legal Professionalism: Challenges for the First Women Lawyers Mary Jane Mossman 149

8 That Obscure Object of Desire: Sex Equality and the Legal Profession Hilary Sommerlad 171

Index 195

Editorial Reviews

"...a good primer to a rich set of theoretical arguments and debates, providing a solid overview, not just of international legal development through a feminist lens, but also feminist thought more generally. The extensive footnotes will be prized by law and APD scholars, as well as those looking at projects relating to the expression of gender in institutions more broadly. The collection represents a great effort by Hunter and her colleagues." --The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 19 No.1

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