Gender and Justice

List of contents

I: The Subject of Justice; [1]: Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective; [2]: The Woman of Legal Discourse; [3]: proof; [4]: Liberal Jurisprudence and Abstracted Visions of Human Nature: A Feminist Critique of Rawls’ Theory of Justice; [5]: “Public Man” and the Critique of Masculinities; II: The Limits of Formal Equality; [6]: Something is Pushing them to the Side of their Own Lives: 1 A Feminist Critique of Law and Laws; [7]: Possession: Erotic Love in the Law of Rape; [8]: Women and the Law of Armed Conflict: Why the Silence?; [9]: The Equality Pit or the Rehabilitation of Justice; III: Distributive Justice; [10]: More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing; [11]: Preface 2001; [12]: Theories of Justice and the Welfare State; [13]: After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment; IV: The Qualities of Judgement; Impartiality; [14]: Stripped Down Like a Runner or Enriched by Experience: Bias and Impartiality of Judges and Jurors; Care; [15]: Portia in a Different Voice: Speculations on a Women’s Lawyering Process; [16]: Justice and Care; Emotion; [17]: Reconstructing Judgment: Emotion and Moral Judgment; [18]: Embodied Diversity and the Challenges to Law; V: Just Punishment; [19]: Criminal Justice Ideologies and Practices in Different Voices: Some Feminist Questions about Justice; [20]: Punishment, Feminism, and Political Identity: A Case Study in the Expressive Meaning of the Law

About the author

Ngaire Naffine

Summary

This title explores the relationship between gender and justice. Common law is discussed, and the definition of basic terms, such as "gender" is debated. The text notes that womens' experiences need to be contrasted with mens' to be meaningful, while the reverse is not the case.

Product details

• Authors: Ngaire Naffine
• Assisted by: Ngaire Naffine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2002
• EAN: 9780754620877
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-2087-7
• No. of pages: 504
• Weight: 1090 g
• Series: The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Second Series)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, England, Wales, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LAW / Courts, LAW / Trial Practice, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics