Overview

Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning. It asks how notions of “justice” shape gender identity and whether the legal justice system itself privileges notions of gender or is itself gendered. Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice essays contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction. Given its theme, the collection’s essays examine theoretical practices of intersectional identity at the nexus of “gender and justice” that might also relate to issues of sexuality, race, class, age, and ability.

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Author:   Elaine Wood ,  John Felipe Acevedo ,  Lisa Beckmann ,  Arunita Das
Publisher:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Imprint:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781683932413

ISBN 10:   1683932412
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   15 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction By Elaine Wood Part 1: Praxis and Policy 1. Constructing Criminality: R v. Gladue, Intersectionality, and The Criminalization of Indigenous women’ By Arunita Das 2. Losing Custodial Mothers in Child Support Reform By Laura Lane-Steele 3. Justice, Gender, and Caste: a Case for Dalit Feminist Testimonio By Lissa Lincoln 4. Dehumanization “Because of” Sex: A Neutral Approach to the Rights of Sexual Minorities Under Multiaxial Analysis By Shirley Lin Part 2: Policing Bodies 5. Divorce Ruling Without Consent: Gender, Penal Law, and the Faminized Body in Nuala O’Faolain's My Dream of You By Christin M. Mulligan 6. Gender and Justice in International Human Rights Law: The Need for an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights By Rebecca Smyth 7. “Like Cats and Dogs in the Streets”: Disability and Sexuality in the Eugenic Legal Imagination By Lisa Beckmann 8. Victims of State Violence: Indigenous and Women of Color Sex Workers’ Interactions with Law Enforcement in Canada By Menaka Raguparan Part 3: Activist Politics of Resistance 9. Intersections of Gender and In(justice): Bibi Titi Mohamed and Women’s Struggles during and after Independence in Tanzania By Catherine Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch 10. Policing and Place-Making: Trans* Persecution and Resilience By Ava Ladner 11. Becoming Theodore: Spatial Legal Consciousness and Transgender Name Changes By Theodore Davenport 12. The Model Speaks?: Obscenity Laws in the United States By John Felipe Acevedo

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Elaine Wood is lecturer of women’s & gender studies affiliated with the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender at Bucknell University.

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