Common Law Inside the Female Body

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

List of contents

Introduction: what is the common law inside the female body?; Part I. Condoned Self-Regard in the Common Law: 1. Saying no to what we don't want; 2. Exceptions to condoned self-regard: prior voluntary conduct; 3. Woman too my say no to what they don't want; Part II. What Follows: 4. Unwanted penetration; 5. Unwanted pregnancy; 6. Challenges, prospects, gored oxen.

About the author

Anita Bernstein is Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and a nationally recognized authority on tort law and feminist jurisprudence. Her awards include the first Fulbright scholarship in European Union affairs given to a law professor. She is a graduate of Queens College, whose political science department named her its Distinguished Alumna in 2014, and Yale Law School.

Summary

In this book, Anita Bernstein explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law. She analyzes politically contentious issues such as abortion, surrogacy, prostitution, and sexual assault, with the aim to widen what the law can achieve in furtherance of women's autonomy.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Bernstein, Anita (Brooklyn Law School) Bernstein, Bernstein Anita
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781316629185
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62918-5
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, LAW / Jurisprudence, Political science & theory, Gender & the law, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Medical & healthcare law, Medical and healthcare law, Law and society, gender issues, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts