Gender Sexualities and Law

<p>Bringing together an international range of academics, <em>Gender, Sexualities and Law</em> provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues – both topical and controversial – raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law, persons and the legal profession, along with the gender bias of legal outcomes, has been a fractious, but fertile, focus of reflection. It has, moreover, been an important site of political struggle. This collection of essays offers an unrivalled examination of its various contemporary dimensions, focusing on: issues of theory and representation; violence, both national and international; reproduction and parenting; and partnership, sexuality, marriage and the family. <em>Gender, Sexualities and Law</em> will be invaluable for all those engaged in research and study of the law (and related fields) as a form of gendered power. </p> <p><strong>Part 1: Theory, Law and Sex</strong> 1. Women and the Cast of Legal Persons, <em>Ngaire Naffine</em> 2. De/Sexing the Woman Lawyer, <em>Rosemary Hunter</em> 3. ‘Sexing the Matrix’: Embodiment, Disembodiment and the Law: Towards the Re-Gendering of Legal Personality?, <em>Anna Grear</em> 4. Vulnerability, Equality and the Human Condition, <em>Martha</em> <em>A. Fineman</em> <strong>Part 2: Representations, Law and Sex </strong>5. The ‘Gendered Company’ Revisited, <em>Alice Belcher </em> 6. The Public Sex of the Judiciary: The Appearance of the Irrelevant and the Invisible, <em>Leslie J. Moran</em> 7. Sexuality, Gender and Social Cognition: Lesbian and Gay Identity in Judicial Decision-Making, <em>Todd Brower</em> 8. The Gendered Dock: Reflections on the Impact of Gender Stereotyping in the Criminal Justice System, <em>Judith Rowbotham</em> <strong>Part 3: Violence, Law and Sex</strong> 9. ‘She Never Screamed out and Complained’: Recognising Gender in Legal and Media Representations of Rape, <em>Kim Stevenson</em> 10. Gendering Rape: Social Attitudes towards Male and Female Rape, <em>Phil N.S. Rumney and Natalia Hanley</em> 11. When Hate is not Enough: Tackling Homophobic Violence, <em>Iain McDonald</em> 12. The Legal Construction of Domestic Violence: ‘Unmasking’ a Private Problem, <em>Mandy Burton</em> <strong>Part 4: International Violence, Law and Sex</strong> 13. Criminalization or Protection? Tensions in the Construction of Prevention Strategies Concerning Trafficking for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation, <em>Anna Carline</em> 14. A Woman’s Honour and a Nation’s Shame: ‘Honour Killings’ in Pakistan,<em> Shilan Shah-Davis</em> 15. Supranational Criminal Prosecution of Sexual Violence, <em>Anne-Marie de Brouwer</em> <strong>Part 5: Reproduction, Law and Sex </strong>16. The Strange Case of the Invisible Woman in Abortion Law Reform, <em>Kate Gleeson</em> 17. Third-Wave Feminism, Motherhood and the Future of Feminist Legal Theory, <em>Bridget J. Crawford</em> 18. ‘Shall I be Mother?’ Reproductive Autonomy, Feminism and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, <em>Rachel Anne Fenton,</em> <em>D. Jane V. Rees </em>and<em> Sue Heenan</em> 19. Motherhood and Autonomy in a Shared Parenting Climate, <em>Susan B. Boyd</em> <strong>Part 6: Relationships, Law and Sex</strong> 20. A very British Compromise? Civil Partnerships, Liberalism by Stealth and the Fallacies of Neo-Liberalism, <em>Jeffrey Weeks</em> 21. Attitudes to Same-Sex Marriage in South African Muslim Communities: An Exploratory Study, <em>Elsje Bonthuys </em>and <em>Natasha Erlank</em> 22. Taking ‘Sex’ out of Marriage in the EU, <em>Jackie Jones</em> 23. From Russia (and Elsewhere) with Love: Mail Order Brides, <em>Jennifer Marchbank</em></p>