Women Murdered by the Men They Loved
by Ellen Cole, Esther D. Rothblum, and Constance A BEAN
This important new book presents eye-opening documentation of the often-overlooked problem of domestic violence and murder. Alarming statistics show that in Massachusetts alone a spouse/partner murder occurs every 22 days, and approximately fifty percent of female homicide victims are murdered by their husbands or lovers. Women Murdered by the Men They Loved examines the critical problem of male violence against spouses and partners and society’s tendency to regard domestic violence as an insign...
This work argues for a theory of feminist identity that embraces female sexuality and sexual difference. The author enters the debate surrounding abortion, pornography and sexual harassment, engaging with such thinkers as Catherine Mackinnon, Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls. She explores a defence of abortion on philosophical grounds, and examines the ill-defined and misunderstood world of sexual harassment.
Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women and disability. This innovative book was written by women with disabilities and women professionals who work with persons with disabilities. Women With Disabilities covers many concerns about life with a disability and issues related to disability and psychotherapy.The authors represent a variety of disabilities, ethnicities, sexualities, and politics. This diversity of experience and perspective for...
What can straight people do to support gay rights? How much work or sacrifice must allies take on to do their share? Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown - law professors, activists, husband and wife - propose practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community. Straightforward advances a thesis that is at once simple and groundbreaking: to make real progress at the central flashpoints of controversy - marriage rights, employment discrimination, gays in the mi...
Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection (Onati International Series in Law and Society)
This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women’s rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women’s poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women’s social security right...
In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fifth Edition, internationally renowned feminist Judith Lorber examines thirteen evolving theories of gender inequality. Tightly structured around Lorber's own paradigm of "reform, resistance, rebellion," this combination text/reader acknowledges feminism's significant contributions to redressing gender inequality and celebrates its enormous accomplishments over the last forty years. It also documents feminism's ongoing political activism, an...
1656: a Boston court sentences a ship's captain to sit in the stocks for two hours for "lewd and unseemly behavior" on the Sabbath. His offence? Arriving home that Sunday after three years at sea, he had kissed his wife. 1968: J. Edgar Hoover tries to ban the recording "Two Virgins" because the cover depicts John Lennon and Yoko Ono stark naked from both directions. 1994: Lorena Bobbitt castrates her abusive husband and throws the offending organ across a highway - only to see it reattached and...
Lie Groups, Convex Cones and Semigroups (Oxford Mathematical Monographs)
by Joachim Hilgert, etc., Karl H. Hofmann, and Jimmie D. Lawson
The geometry of convex cones has in recent years come to play an important role in the development of the Lie theory of sub-semigroups of Lie groups. This book attempts to provide an account of this theory and indicates its wide-ranging application to representation theory of Lie groups. In the spirit of classical Lie theory, the authors first develop the infinitesimal theory of Lie sub-semigroups which culminates in a characterization of those cones in a Lie algebra which are invariant under th...
The Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by 35 states, just three short of the 38 states needed by the 1982 deadline. In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognised by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's...
What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism? What is the impact of transitional justice processes on the human rights of women in states emerging from political violence? Gender Politics in Transitional Justice argues that human rights outcomes for women are determined in the space between international law and local gender politics. The book draws on feminist political science to reveal the key gender dyna...
Essential Papers on Messianic Movements (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies)
The messianic idea that a redeemer sent by God will come to end the suffering of a persecuted people and inaugurate a new age of justice and peace has been one of the most powerful and influential concepts given by the Jewish people to western civilization. This book represents a sample of the most penetrating and provocative scholarly interpretations of Jewish messianic movement from various perspectives- historical, sociological, psychological, and religious.
Listen to My Case! When Women Approach the Courts of Tamil Nadu
by Justice K Chandru
This book brings new perspectives and insights about women's lived experience to the body of existing literature on citizenship. It stimulates debate on issues of citizenship and includes perspectives on poverty, HIV/AIDS, political representation and violence against women. While books with a feminist perspective on different aspects of politics such as rights, voting behaviour, representation, and policy-making have appeared, very few deal explicitly with theory. This book aims to make a contr...
Feminisms of Discontent
This edited volume focuses on a central plank of feminist politics, i.e. the struggle for equality. It attempts to find answers to the following questions: In what ways have feminist pursuits brought about more equality in women's lives? Or has the struggle for equality produced more law and invited greater regulation into women's lives rather than transformation? Are there other ways in which to engage equality and the state? It points out that as feminism has gone mainstream, feminist disconte...
Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, #122)
Whilst scholarship on women's suffrage usually focuses on a few emblematic countries, The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe casts a comparative look at the articulation of women's suffrage rights in the countries that now make up the political-unity-in-the-making we call the European Union. The book uncovers the dynamics that were at play in the recognition of male and female suffrage rights and in the definition of male and female citizenship in modern Europe. It allows readers to identify...
Our Lives Before the Law
by Professor of Political Science Judith A Baer