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Rethinking Equality Projects in Law Professor Rosemary Hunter

Rethinking Equality Projects in Law By Professor Rosemary Hunter

Rethinking Equality Projects in Law by Professor Rosemary Hunter


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

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Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges by Professor Rosemary Hunter

The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for women, feminists have come to challenge the usefulness of equality as a concept, a particular definition, or a basis for strategising. The papers in this collection reflect these concerns, primarily in the context of English-speaking, common law cultures. Collectively, the papers analyse a range of equality projects across a number of areas of public and private law, considering both competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it. In taking stock across a century and a half and around the globe, the book illustrates the range of ways in which equality projects in law have been challenged by, and remain a challenge for, feminism.

Rethinking Equality Projects in Law 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. -- Adam L. Kress * The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 19 No.1 *

About Professor Rosemary Hunter

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

Introduction: Feminism and Equality Rosemary Hunter Part I Equality Projects in Law Reform 1. The Married Womens Property Acts: Equality Was Not the Issue Rosemary Auchmuty 2. The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts Heather Douglas 3. Is Equality Enough? Fathers Rights and Womens Rights Advocacy Susan B Boyd 4. Alternatives to Equality Rosemary Hunter Part II Constitutional Equality Projects 5. Equality Rights: Whats Wrong? Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan 6. Haunting (In)equalities Karin Van Marle Part III Personal Equality Projects in the Legal Profession 7. Gender Equality and Legal Professionalism: Challenges for the First Women Lawyers Mary Jane Mossman 8. That Obscure Object of Desire: Sex Equality and the Legal Profession Hilary Sommerlad

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GOR008796116
9781841138398
1841138398
Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges by Professor Rosemary Hunter
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2008-07-29
204
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