The Cambridge companion to gender and the law /
"To what extent is the legal subject gendered? Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions and thematically organised chapters, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of this question. With a systematic, accessible approach, it argues that the law and gender work to co-p...
| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Σειρά: | Cambridge companions to law
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| Περίληψη: | "To what extent is the legal subject gendered? Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions and thematically organised chapters, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of this question. With a systematic, accessible approach, it argues that the law and gender work to co-produce the legal subject. Cumulatively, the volume's chapters provide a systematic evaluation of the key facets of legal subject: the corporeal, the functional and the communal. Exploring aspects of the legal subject from the ways in which it is sexed and sexualised to its national and familial dimensions, this volume develops a complete account of the various processes through which legal orders produce gendered subjects. Across its chapters, each theoretically ambitious in its own right, this volume outlines how the law not only acts on the social world, but genders it"-- |
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| Φυσική περιγραφή: | xiii, 379 σ. ; 24 εκ. |
| Βιβλιογραφία: | Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο. |
| ISBN: | 9781108499248 9781108713306 |
