The Cambridge companion to gender and the law
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023, Cambridge companions to law
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HENNETTE VAUCHEZ, Stephanie, RUBIO MARIN, Ruth (editor/s), The Cambridge companion to gender and the law, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023, Cambridge companions to law - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77328
Abstract
To what extent is the legal subject gendered? Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions and thematically organised chapters, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of this question. With a systematic, accessible approach, it argues that law and gender work to co-produce the legal subject. Cumulatively, the volume's chapters provide a systematic evaluation of the key facets of the legal subject: the corporeal, the functional and the communal. Exploring aspects of the legal subject from the ways in which it is sexed and sexualised to its national and familial dimensions, this volume develops a complete account of the various processes through which legal orders produce gendered subjects. Across its chapters, each theoretically ambitious in its own right, this volume outlines how the law not only acts on the social world, but genders it.
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-- Introduction : From law and gender to law as gender : the legal subject and the co-production hypothesis -- PART I. Bodies -- 1. The sexed subject -- 2. The foetal subject : law, gender & embodiment -- 3. The terrorized subject : a critique of 'women', 'gender violence' and 'vulnerability' as legal categories -- 4. The sexual subject : recasting the sexual citizen -- PART II. Functions -- 5. The working subject : the collusion of law and gender in the construction of working subjects -- 6. The reproductive subject : the reproductive subject and the embodied state of international human rights law -- 7. The caring subject -- PART III. Communities -- 8. The national subject -- 9. The familial subject -- 10. The political subject
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Published online: January 2023