Responsible selves : women in the Nordic legal culture / edited by Kevät Nousiainen ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nousiainen, Kevät.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Scandinavia.

Women.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

x, 373 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate/Dartmouth, [2001]

Contents:

1 Introductory Remarks on Nordic Law and Gender Identities / Kevat Nousiainen, Johanna Niemi-Kiesilainen 1

Part I Constructing Equality and Identity

2 Transformative Nordic Welfarism: Liberal and Communitarian Trends in Family and Market Law / Kevat Nousiainen 25

3 Sex Equality: Changes in Politics, Jurisprudence and Feminist Legal Studies / Eva-Maria Svensson 71

4 The Responsible Self: Relational Gender Construction in the History of Finnish Law / Anu Pylkkanen 105

Part II Welfare and Care

5 The Changing Position of the Individual in Danish Welfare Law / Lisbet Christoffersen 131

6 From Marriage Contract to Labour Contract: Effects on Care Duties and Care Rights / Kirsten Ketscher 155

7 The Autonomous Taxpayer and the Dependent Caregiver: The Effects of the Division Between Tax Law and Social Law / Asa Gunnarsson 173

Part III Constructions of Gender in Labour Law

8 Collective and Individual Strategies: Women's and Men's Wages / Susanne Fransson 195

9 The Enforcement of EU Sex Discrimination Law in Scandinavia / Ruth Nielsen 223

10 Doctors and Nurses: The Gendered Right to Practise / Lotta Wendel 243

11 The ECJ's Conditional Release of Women / Karin Lundstrom 263

Part IV Integrity and its Violations

12 Criminal Law or Social Policy as Protection Against Violence / Johanna Niemi-Kiesilainen 289

13 The "Good Battered Woman": A Silenced Defendant / Minna Ruuskanen 311

14 The Unbounded Body of the Law of Rape: The Intrusive Criterion of Non-Consent / Ulrika Andersson 331

15 Women's Peace: A Criminal Law Reform in Sweden / Gudrun Nordborg, Johanna Niemi-Kiesilainen 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

075462160X

OCLC:

46650329