Women’s and Gender Studies: Socio-Legal Studies - Gender & Sexuality

Edited by Siobhán Mullally

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status – has frequently been neglected. It is primarily the moments of crisis, incidents of human trafficking, slavery or…

Paperback – 2017-01-13 
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Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

Edited by Louise McOrmond-Plummer, Jennifer Y. Levy-Peck, Patricia Easteal

Research shows that intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is the most common form of sexual assault. Professional focus is often on the victim, but more information is needed about the perpetrators in order to have a fuller understanding of this crime. The very nature of IPSV – sexual assault…

Paperback – 2016-12-17 
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Edited by Nicola Barker, Daniel Monk

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA) and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2014 (MSSCA) are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a…

Paperback – 2016-11-30 
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By Aleardo Zanghellini

While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state’s regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy. The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority argues that there are good reasons to suppose that our…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
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Social Justice

Edited by Nikita Dhawan, Antke Engel, Christoph H.E. Holzhey, Volker Woltersdorff

Employing feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives, Global Justice and Desire addresses economy as a key ingredient in the dynamic interplay between modes of subjectivity, signification and governance. Bringing together a range of international contributors, the book proposes that both…

Paperback – 2016-11-08
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Social Justice

Edited by Ulrike Schultz, T. Brettel Dawson, Gisela Shaw

Judicial Education has greatly expanded in common law countries in the past 25 years. More recently it has become a core component in judicial reform programs in developing countries with gender attentiveness as an element required by donor agencies. In civil law jurisdictions judges´ schools have…

Hardback – 2016-10-10
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By Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Over the past three decades, the operation of the partial defence of provocation has attracted significant community attention, scholarly debate and political interest in an international range of jurisdictions. In fact, it is difficult to locate a jurisdiction that has not confronted to some…

Hardback – 2016-09-30
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By Adrienne Roberts

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism. Roberts argues that…

Hardback – 2016-09-22
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RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Edited by Anne Hellum

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book. The…

Hardback – 2016-09-20
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Edited by Sara L. Kimble, Marion Röwekamp

This book integrates women’s history and legal studies within the broader context of modern European history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sixteen contributions from fourteen countries explore the ways in which the law contributes to the social construction of gender. They analyze…

Hardback – 2016-07-26
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Routledge Research in Gender and History

By Beth Goldblatt

The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally. Social security and its articulation as a human right have received increased attention in recent years both in response to austerity cuts to…

Hardback – 2016-06-09
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Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

Edited by Sue Westwood, Elizabeth Price

This groundbreaking collection is the first to focus specifically on LGBT* people and dementia. It brings together original chapters from leading academics, practitioners and LGBT* individuals affected by dementia. Multi-disciplinary and international in scope, it includes authors from the UK, USA,…

Hardback – 2016-04-29
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Routledge Advances in Sociology