Law and the quest for gender equality /
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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Canberra, ACT, Australia :
Australian National University Press,
[2023]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Global thinkers series
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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.