Women, Sex, and the Law
Women, Sex, and the Law

Author: Rosemarie Tong

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780847672318

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Feminist scholars have long been concerned with how women and sexuality are perceived and treated by the American legal system. Feminists have put forth a variety of arguments seeking the causes and solutions to the class-based and sex-biased characteristics of the legal system that contribute to the victimization of women in contemporary society. No consensus within the women's movement has been achieved on a number of legal issues, such as pornography or prostitution, since approaches are often divided by political, economic, moral, or sexual ideology.Women, Sex, and the Law is a comprehensive survey and analysis of the legal and sexual issues important to women. Rosemarie Tong introduces the reader to the different feminist and legal perspectives on the causes and solutions for the problems of pornography, sexual harassment, prostitution, rape, and woman-battering. Tong clearly and concisely details and assesses the legal theory and practice for each issue, describs and critiques the various feminist debates surrounding these concerns, and offers her own thoughtful proposals for ameliorating the discriminatory tendencies and improving the effectiveness of our present legal system.

Because of Sex
Because of Sex

Author: Gillian Thomas

Publisher: Picador USA

Published: 2017-08-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1250138086

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A compelling look at ten of the most important Supreme Court cases defining women’s rights on the job, as told by the brave women who brought the cases to court

Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws
Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws

Author: Catharine A. MacKinnon

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007-04-30

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780674024069

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'Women's Lives, Men's Laws' collects papers by MacKinnon from 1980 to the present, in which she discusses the deep gender bias of American law and the changes to legislation on sexual harassment, rape and battering, to which she has contributed.

Intersexuality and the Law
Intersexuality and the Law

Author: Julie A. Greenberg

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0814731899

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Winner of the 2013 Bullough Award presented by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality The term “intersex” evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex condition, or DSD (disorder of sex development), are men or women whose sex chromosomes, gonads, or sex anatomy do not fit clearly into the male/female binary norm. Until recently, intersex conditions were shrouded in shame and secrecy: many adults were unaware that they had been born with an intersex condition and those who did know were advised to hide the truth. Current medical protocols and societal treatment of people with an intersex condition are based upon false stereotypes about sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, which create unique challenges to framing effective legal claims and building a strong cohesive movement. In Intersexuality and the Law, Julie A. Greenberg examines the role that legal institutions can play in protecting the rights of people with an intersex condition. She also explores the relationship between the intersex movement and other social justice movements that have effectively utilized legal strategies to challenge similar discriminatory practices. She discusses the feasibility of forming effective alliances and developing mutually beneficial legal arguments with feminists, LGBT organizations, and disability rights advocates to eradicate the discrimination suffered by these marginalized groups.

When Sex Counts
When Sex Counts

Author: Sherry F. Colb

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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From a decidedly left-of-center perspective, the author discusses how law and public policy grapple with the differences between genders while simultaneously struggling to maintain a commitment to equal treatment under the law. The book consists of previously published general audience articles that are both provocative and newsworthy.

Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)justice
Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)justice

Author: Henry F. Fradella

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-26

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 1317528913

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Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice covers a wide range of legal issues associated with sexuality, gender, reproduction, and identity. These are critical and sensitive issues that law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals need to understand. The book synthesizes the literature across a wide breadth of perspectives, exposing students to law, psychology, criminal justice, sociology, philosophy, history, and, where relevant, biology, to critically examine the social control of sex, gender, and sexuality across history. Specific federal and state case law and statutes are integrated throughout the book, but the text moves beyond the intersection between law and sexuality to focus just as much on social science as it does on law. This book will be useful in teaching courses in a range of disciplines—especially criminology and criminal justice, history, political science, sociology, women and gender studies, and law.

Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law
Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law

Author: Chris Ashford

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-03-28

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 178811115X

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This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices.

Women's Human Rights and Migration
Women's Human Rights and Migration

Author: Sital Kalantry

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 081224933X

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In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry examines the laws to ban sex-selective abortion in the United States and India to argue for a transnational feminist legal approach to evaluating prohibitions on the practices of immigrant women that raise human rights concerns.

Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China

Author: Matthew Harvey Sommer

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 868

ISBN-13: 0804745595

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This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status.