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Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction.
List of contents
Introduction
By Elaine Wood
Part 1: Praxis and Policy
1. Constructing Criminality: R v. Gladue, Intersectionality, and The Criminalization of Indigenous women'
By Arunita Das
2. Losing Custodial Mothers in Child Support Reform
By Laura Lane-Steele
3. Justice, Gender, and Caste: a Case for Dalit Feminist Testimonio
By Lissa Lincoln
4. Dehumanization "Because of" Sex: A Neutral Approach to the Rights of Sexual Minorities Under Multiaxial Analysis
By Shirley Lin
Part 2: Policing Bodies
5. Divorce Ruling Without Consent: Gender, Penal Law, and the Faminized Body in Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You
By Christin M. Mulligan
6. Gender and Justice in International Human Rights Law: The Need for an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
By Rebecca Smyth
7. "Like Cats and Dogs in the Streets": Disability and Sexuality in the Eugenic Legal Imagination
By Lisa Beckmann
8. Victims of State Violence: Indigenous and Women of Color Sex Workers' Interactions with Law Enforcement in Canada
By Menaka Raguparan
Part 3: Activist Politics of Resistance
9. Intersections of Gender and In(justice): Bibi Titi Mohamed and Women's Struggles during and after Independence in Tanzania
By Catherine Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch
10. Policing and Place-Making: Trans* Persecution and Resilience
By Ava Ladner
11. Becoming Theodore: Spatial Legal Consciousness and Transgender Name Changes
By Theodore Davenport
12. The Model Speaks?: Obscenity Laws in the United States
By John Felipe Acevedo
About the author
Elaine Wood is lecturer of women's & gender studies affiliated with the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender at Bucknell University.
