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Law and body politics : regulating the female body
- Title
- Law and body politics : regulating the female body / edited by Jo Bridgeman and Susan Millns.
- Publication
- Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Dartmouth, [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | KD734 .L34 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiv, 304 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain
- Note
- "Socio-legal studies series"--Jkt.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Body Politics and Rights / Elizabeth Kingdom -- 2. They Gag Women, Don't They? / Jo Bridgeman -- 3. The Law's Engagement With Pregnancy / Anne Morris and Susan Nott -- 4. Making "social judgments that go beyond the purely medical": The Reproductive Revolution and Access to Fertility Treatment Services / Susan Millns -- 5. The Law of Abortion and the Politics of Medicalisation / Sally Sheldon -- 6. Sterilising the Woman with Learning Difficulties - In Her Best Interests? / Kirsty Keywood -- 7. Female Circumcision: Mutilation or Modification? / Lois S. Bibbings -- 8. Legal Responses to Battered Women Who Kill / Marie Fox -- 9. Working Together - An Analysis of Collaborative Inter-Agency Responses to "The Problem of Domestic Violence" / Christina M. Lyon -- 10. Images of Women: Sentencing in Sexual Assault Cases in Scotland / Susan R. Moody -- 11. International Human Rights and Body Politics / Fiona Beveridge and Siobhan Mullally.
- ISBN
- 1855215152
- LCCN
- 95000102
- OCLC
- 31970044
- ocm31970044
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries