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A Law of Her Own : the Reasonable Woman as a Measure of Man.

Despite the apparent progress in women's legal status, the law retains a profoundly male bias, and as such contributes to the pervasive violence and injustice against women. In A Law of Her Own, the authors propose to radically change law's fundamental paradigm by introducing a "reaso...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forell, Caroline
Otros Autores: Matthews, Donna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by Barbara Y. Welke; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I The Idea and the Reality; 1 Locked In and Locked Out; 2 The Meaning of Equality; II Sexual Harassment in the Workplace; 3 Men, Women, and Sex at Work; 4 How and Why Different Perspectives Matter in Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Cases; 5 Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation, and the Reasonable Woman; 6 The Reasonable Woman after Harris v. Forklift Systems; III Stalking; 7 Stalking and the Gendered Meaning of Reasonable Fear; 8 The Continuum of Stalking, Sexual Harassment, and Domestic Homicide; IV Domestic Homicide.
  • 9 Slips in a Dangerous Game10 "Provoked" Intimate Homicide; 11 When Battered Women Kill; V Rape; 12 Rape and the Use and Misuse of the Reasonable Woman; Postscript; References; Index; About the Authors.