Law and the Quest for Gender Equality / / Margaret Thornton.
"For centuries, law was used to subordinate women and exclude them from the public sphere, so it cannot be expected to become a source of equality instantaneously or without resistance from benchmark men--that is, those who are white, heterosexual, able-bodied and middle class. Equality, furthe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Canberra, ACT : : ANU Press,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global Thinkers Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I: Women as Nonpersons
- 1. Edith Haynes challenges the legal profession.
- pt. II: The limits of law
- 2. Feminist jurisprudence: illusion or reality?
- 3. The contradictions of law reform.
- pt. III: Legislating for equality
- 4. Feminism and the changing state.
- 5. Sexual harassment losing sight of sex discrimination.
- pt. IV: Engendering legal practice
- 6. Hypercompetitiveness or a balanced life?
- 7. The flexible cyborg.
- 8. Who cares? The conundrum for gender equality.
- pt. V: Gender and judging
- 9. Sex discrimination, courts and corporate power.
- 10. The High Court and judicial activism.
- 11. 'Otherness' on the bench.
- pt. VI: Diversifying legal education
- 12. Wondering what to do about legal education.
- 13. Why the gender and colour of law remain the same.
- pt. VII: The corporatised academy
- 14. Universities upside-down.
- 15. The mirage of merit.