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Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law and gender interact to shape the legal subject. Organised in thematic chapters that address the legal subject's corporeal, functional, and communal dimensions, it offers an accessible but theoretically ambitious analysis.
List of contents
From law and gender to law as gender: the legal subject and the co-production hypothesis; Part I. Bodies: 1. The sexed subject Marie-Xaviere Catto and Stefano Osella; 2. The foetal subject: law, gender and embodiment Michael Thomson; 3. The terrorized subject: a critique of 'women', 'gender violence' and 'vulnerability' as legal categories Márcia Nina Bernardes and Sofia Martins; 4. The sexual subject: recasting the sexual citizen Melissa Murray; Part II. Functions: 5. The working subject: the collusion of law and gender in the construction of working subjects Joanne Conaghan; 6. The reproductive subject: the reproductive subject and the embodied state of international human rights law Joanna N. Erdman; 7. The caring subject Jonathan Herring; Part III. Communities: 8. The national subject Melanie Toombs and Kim Rubenstein; 9. The familial subject Fernanda G. Nicola and Ann Shalleck; 10. The political subject Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez and Ruth Rubio Marin.
About the author
Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez is Professor of Public Law at the Université Paris Nanterre, Director of the CREDOF (Centre d'études et de recherches sur les droits fondamentaux) and senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. Her research focuses on conceptual issues of equality and human rights law. She is the author and co-editor of numerous publications. Her most recent publications include How to Democratize Europe (2019) and Droits de l'homme et libertés fondamentales (2022).Ruth Rubio-Marín is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sevilla, Adjunct Professor at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute, Florence, and Director of the UNIA UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Interculturalism. Her research focuses on comparative constitutionalism, law and gender, immigration and citizenship, as well as transitional justice. Her most recent publications include Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis (2018), Women as Constitution Makers: Case Studies from the New Democratic Era (2019) and Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women´s Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion (2022).
Summary
Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law and gender interact to shape the legal subject. Organised in thematic chapters that address the legal subject's corporeal, functional, and communal dimensions, it offers an accessible but theoretically ambitious analysis.
Foreword
With systematic, thematic chapters, this volume demonstrates how law and gender co-produce gendered legal subjects.
