The Cambridge companion to gender and the law / edited by Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez, Ruth Rubio-Marín.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hennette-Vauchez, Stéphanie, editor.

Rubio-Marín, Ruth, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Law and legislation.

Gender identity.

Sex discrimination--Law and legislation.

Sex discrimination.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 379 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

To what extent is the legal subject gendered? Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions and thematically organised chapters, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of this question. With a systematic, accessible approach, it argues that law and gender work to co-produce the legal subject. Cumulatively, the volume's chapters provide a systematic evaluation of the key facets of the legal subject: the corporeal, the functional and the communal. Exploring aspects of the legal subject from the ways in which it is sexed and sexualised to its national and familial dimensions, this volume develops a complete account of the various processes through which legal orders produce gendered subjects. Across its chapters, each theoretically ambitious in its own right, this volume outlines how the law not only acts on the social world, but genders it.

Contents:

The sexed subject / Marie-Xaviere Catto, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne; Stefano Osella, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropolgy

The Foetal subject : law, gender & embodiment / Michael Thomson, University of Technology, Sydney & Leeds University

The terrorized subject : a critique of 'women', 'gender violence' and 'vulnerability' as legal categories / Márcia Nina Bernardes, PUC Rio de Janeiro; Sofia Martins, Columbia University

The sexual subject : recasting the sexual citizen / Melissa Murray, NYU Law School

The working subject : the collusion of law and gender in the construction of working subjects / Joanne Conaghan, University of Bristol

The reproductive subject : the reproductive subject and the embodied state of international human rights law / Joanna N Erdman, Dalhousie University

The caring subject / Jonathan Herring, Oxford Univesity

The national subject / Melanie Toombs, Kim Rubenstein, University of Canberra

The familial subject / Fernanda G Nicola, American University; Ann Shalleck, American University

The political subject / Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez, Université Paris Nanterre; Ruth Rubio Marin, Universidad de Sevilla.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2023).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108634069 (ebook)

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