Law and the quest for gender equality /

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As law was a means of legitimating the subordination of women and their exclusion from the public sphere for centuries, it cannot be expected to become a source of equality instantaneously without resistance from benchmark men, that is, those who are white, heterosexual, able-bodied and middle class...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thornton, Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2023]
Series:Global thinkers series.
Subjects:
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation.
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Edith Haynes challenges the legal profession.
  • 2. Feminist jurisprudence: illusion or reality?
  • 3. The contradictions of law reform.
  • 4. Feminism and the changing state.
  • 5. Sexual harassment losing sight of sex discrimination.
  • 6. Hypercompetitiveness or a balanced life?
  • 7. The flexible cyborg.
  • 8. Who cares? The conundrum for gender equality.
  • 9. Sex discrimination, courts and corporate power.
  • 10. The High Court and judicial activism.
  • 11. 'Otherness' on the bench.
  • 12. Wondering what to do about legal education.
  • 13. Why the gender and colour of law remain the same.
  • 14. Universities upside-down.
  • 15. The mirage of merit.

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