Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market

Informationen zum Autor Ann Stewart is a Reader in Law and Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, where she specialises in the area of gender and the law, particularly in the context of international development. Klappentext Considers how law interacts with economic and social processes to create global gender injustices. Zusammenfassung This fresh understanding of global law and contemporary gender relations asks 'whom do we care about?' not 'what rights do women have?'. Case studies feature African women producing fruit and flowers for UK export; Polish! Filipino and Moldovan migrant body workers providing care and sex; and British-Asian transnational marriages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: living in a global north consumer society: a contextual vignette; 1. Constructing relationships in a global economy; 2. Globalising feminist legal theory; 3. State, market and family in a global north consumer society; 4. Gender justice in Africa: politics of culture or culture of economics?; 5. From anonymity to attribution: producing food in a global value chain; 6. Constructing body work; 7. Global body markets; 8. Constructing south Asian womanhood through law; 9. Trading and contesting belonging in multicultural Britain; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Stewart, Ann (University of Warwick) Stewart, Stewart Ann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521746533
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74653-3
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Law in Context; Law in Context
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Gender & the law, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, International human rights law, Law and society, gender issues