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“linda speth”

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  • Women, Family, and Community in Colonial America

    Two Perspectives

    by Linda Speth ...
    The influence of women in the colonial family and the community is examined using tax and probate records of southside Colonial Virginia. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Normal Life

    Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

    by Dean Spade ...
    Revised and Expanded EditionWait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty ... Read more

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  • The Role of Consent in Human Trafficking

    by Jessica Elliott ...
    Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of adult female victims for sexual exploitation, and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatment of trafficking victims.Jessica Elliott argues that when applied to situations of human trafficking, migration and sexual exploitation, the ... Read more

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  • Butterfly Politics

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lean Out

    How to dismantle the corporate barriers that hold women back

    by Maureen F Fitzgerald ...
    Why women still fall off the corporate ladderDespite all the talk of diversity and empowerment, women are still falling off corporate ladders like never before. Although women have been graduating in equal numbers to men for almost 40 years, they remain absent in the highest levels in public and private corporations. While individual women go about seeking work-life balance, board members and ... Read more

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  • Feminist Judgments

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Professor Rosemary Hunter, Professor Clare McGlynn, Erika Rackley ...
    While feminist legal scholarship has thrived within universities and in some sectors of legal practice, it has yet to have much impact within the judiciary or on judicial thinking. Thus, while feminist legal scholarship has generated comprehensive critiques of existing legal doctrine, there has been little opportunity to test or apply feminist knowledge in practice, in decisions in individual ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Logics of Gender Justice

    State Action on Women's Rights Around the World

    by Mala Htun, S. Laurel Weldon ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
    When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist ... Read more

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  • The Beauty Bias

    The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

    by Deborah L. Rhode ...
    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be ... Read more

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  • Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities

    Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women

    by Alana Barton ...
    In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and disciplining of unruly and 'deviant' women from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Her particular focus is the 'semi penal' institution, a category that includes refuges, reformatories and homes. She suggests that these occupy a unique position within the social control 'continuum', somewhere between the formal regulation of ... Read more

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  • The Man Question

    Male Subordination and Privilege

    by Nancy E. Dowd ...
    Among the many important tools feminist legal theorists have given scholars is that of anti-essentialism: all women are not created equal, and privilege varies greatly by circumstances,particularly that of race and class. Yet at the same time, feminist legal theory tends to view men through an essentialist lens, in which men are created equal. The study of masculinities, inspired by feminist ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage

    A Neo-Institutional Approach

    Edited by Bronwyn Winter, Maxime Forest, Réjane Sénac ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of—or refusal to adopt—same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or longstanding democracies, republics and parliamentary monarchies, and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different positions with respect ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film

    Gaslighting

    by Diane L. Shoos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women. These films include Gaslight, Sleeping with the Enemy, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Dolores Claiborne, Enough, and Safe Haven. Shaped by the contexts of postfeminism, domestic abuse post-awareness, and familiar genre conventions, these films engage in ideological “gaslighting” that ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD