Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking equality projects in law : feminist challenges / edited by Rosemary Hunter.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Hunter, Rosemary C.
• Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Description

201 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal though and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for women, feminists have come to challenge the usefulness of equality as a concept, a particular definition or a basis for strategising. The papers in this collection reflect these concerns, primarily in the context of English-speaking common law cultures. Collectively, the papers analyse a range of equality projects across a number of areas of public and private law, considering both competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it. In taking stock across a century and a half and around the globe, the book illustrates the range of ways in which equality projects in law have been challenged by, and remain a challenge for, feminism."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Oñati international series in law and society

Subject

• Women's rights > Congresses
• Feminist jurisprudence > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers originally presented at the Workshop on Revisiting Equality, held at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law in July 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Married women's property acts : equality was not the issue / Rosemary Auchmuty -- Demise of the provocation defence and the failure of equality concepts / Heather Douglas -- Is equality enough? Father's rights and women's rights advocacy / Susan B. Boyd -- Alternatives to equality / Rosemary Hunter -- Equality rights : what's wrong? / Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan -- Haunting (in)equalities / Karin Van Marle -- Gender equality and legal professionalism : challenges for the first women lawyers / Mary Jane Mossman -- That obscure object of desire : sex equality and the legal profession / Hilary Sommerlad.

ISBN

• 9781841138404 (cloth)
• 1841138401 (cloth)
• 9781841138398 (pbk.)
• 1841138398 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008277686

OCLC

• 216663162
• SCSB-10480060

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library