Gender, Sexualities and Law [Hardcover]

Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Lawprovides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues  both topical and controversial  raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law, persons and the legal profession, along with the gender bias of legal outcomes, has been a fractious, but fertile, focus of reflection. It has, moreover, been an important site of political struggle. This collection of essays offers an unrivalled examination of its various contemporary dimensions, focusing on: issues of theory and representation; violence, both national and international; reproduction and parenting; and partnership, sexuality, marriage and the family. Gender, Sexualities and Lawwill be invaluable for all those engaged in research and study of the law (and related fields) as a form of gendered power.

Part 1: Theory, Law and Sex  1. Women and the Cast of Legal Persons, Ngaire Naffine  2. De/Sexing the Woman Lawyer, Rosemary Hunter  3. Sexing the Matrix: Embodiment, Disembodiment and the Law: Towards the Re-Gendering of Legal Personality?, Anna Grear  4. Vulnerability, Equality and the Human Condition, MarthaA. Fineman  Part 2: Representations, Law and Sex  5. The Gendered Company Revisited, Alice Belcher  6. The Public Sex of the Judiciary: The Appearance of the Irrelevant and the Invisible, Leslie J. Moran  7. Sexuality, Gender and Social Cognition: Lesbian and Gay Identity in Judicial Decision-Making, Todd Brower  8. The Gendered Dock: Reflections on the Impact of Gender Stereotyping in the Criminal Justice System, Judith Rowbotham&nbslCÓ