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Understanding the contemporary place of women's lives requires an understanding of the historical legacies. Utilizing a sociological and feminist lens, Women and Justice examines what justice has meant in the lives of women. The book includes diverse quotes relating to the notion of justice and examines numerous issues_both civil and criminal_to bring a broader understanding. As the only sociolegal text on the market that attempts to include both civil and criminal issues between two covers, the work is framed by the working term 'quadraplexation'_a term grounded in the work of feminist theorist Juliet Mitchell. This framework helps us to better understand how and why women are treated the way they are in contemporary society, and it helps to frame our understanding of the historical legal decision-making process. Motherhood, marriage and same-sex coupling, paid and unpaid labor, education, criminal behavior, and women practitioners' lives in the justice system are among the topics included in the text. Suggestions for creating a more just world for women are also included.

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A highly readable foray into women, law, injustice, discrimination and male power and privilege. The text goes beyond the standard women and crime text that address women as criminals, victims and workers in the criminal legal system to explore women, class and justice through U.S. culture, education, employment (paid and unpaid labor), poverty, prison, and marriage and the family. Grana examines how injustice impacts on not just women's legal lives, but their 'non-legal' or civil lives as well. She chronologies how the history of common law sets up civil, criminal and constitutional law to disenfranchise and burden women. She critically assesses contemporary resolutions such as compensatory equality laws, equal protection laws, the attempted Equal RightsAmendment, Titles VII and IX, and affirmative action. This decidedly accessible book is an exceptionally broad based analysis, from the lens of feminist jurisprudence, which canvasses concrete issues of injustice ranging from crime to

A highly readable foray into women, law, injustice, discrimination and male power and privilege. The text goes beyond the standard women and crime text that address women as criminals, victims and workers in the criminal legal system to explore women, class and justice through U.S. culture, education, employment (paid and unpaid labor), poverty, prison, and marriage and the family. Grana examines how injustice impacts on not just women's legal lives, but their 'non-legal' or civil lives as well. She chronologies how the history of common law sets up civil, criminal and constitutional law to disenfranchise and burden women. She critically assesses contemporary resolutions such as compensatory equality laws, equal protection laws, the attempted Equal Rights Amendment, Titles VII and IX, and affirmative action. This decidedly accessible book is an exceptionally broad based analysis, from the lens of feminist jurisprudence, which canvasses concrete issues of injustice ranging from crime to

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Sheryl J. Grana is associate professor of sociology at University of Minnesota Duluth.

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