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Women and The Magna Carta
On the eight-hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, Women and the Magna Carta investigates what the charter meant for women's rights and freedoms from an historical and legal perspective.
Taking a Stand
Fifth volume in the Artemis TWomen's Voices, Women's Lives' series. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by women outlining how they as individuals and as members of organisations stand up for women's rights. In the four-part text, contributors write about becoming political, fighting for a cause, violence against women, and politics and power. The series has been compiled and edited by the Melbourne lawyer and writer Jocelynne Scutt.
Growing Up Feminist Too
Originally published in 1985, in 'Growing up Feminist' 10 women aged between sixteen and twenty-four talked about their upbringing and experiences, and how they evolved their own feminist doctrines. Their contributions were accompanied by an analysis of traditional discrimination against women and the position of women in the 1980s. In 'Growing up Feminist Too', 22 women aged between fourteen and twenty-five speak of their aspirations, beliefs and their independent and collective strivings to improve the world. Topics covered include education, employment, marriage, children and influences. Jocelynne Scutt again offers an analysis of the current state of affairs where the women's movement is at in the 1990s. Includes a table of contents, list of endnotes and an index for each title.
The Sexual Gerrymander
Jocelynne Scutt’s insightful analyses of history, politics, and economics pervade this book. Writing across the scholarship on women, she brings to the fore the social and political gerrymander women face – whether it be in the areas of work, power and public recognition, or the realms of domestic violence, rape, pornography, prostitution or structural sexism.
Women, Law and Culture
This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict. Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women – whatever their country and social and economic status – this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women’s and gender studies and media studies.
Beauty, Women's Bodies and the Law
What makes a woman’s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women’s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is the renovation of women’s bodies legal? This book explores a range of topics, including: whether shape-changing by surgical and non-surgical means is ‘really’ what women want; the question of legal intervention when operations, injections and other methods go wrong; the impact of consent determinations on whether women can or cannot freely seek changes to their body structure; and the role which culture and social expe...
Wage Rage for Equal Pay
This book makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia, with international references, including Canada, the UK and US. It takes law, history and women’s and gender studies to analyse and recount campaigns, cases and debates. Industrial bodies federally and around Australia have grappled with this issue from the early-twentieth century onwards. This book traces the struggle through the decades, looking at women's organisations activism and demands, union ‘pro’ and ‘against’ activity, and the 'official' approach in tribunals, boards and courts.
Living Feminism
Examining the impact of feminism on ordinary Australian women, the author argues that the impact of feminism on women's lives has been significant, even though many of the women whose lives have changed because of its influence shun the term "feminist", or find feminism irrelevant.
Women and Crime
First published in 1981. In the last few decades, interest in the study of crimes by women has increased. This interest has coincided with the accelerated momentum of the feminist movement and has led to claims that a rising female crime rate is somehow linked with the changing status of women. But are women committing more crimes? And if so, can this be attributed to the impact of the women’s movement? In this book, nine essays survey aspects of the relationship between women and the criminal justice system. The contributors include historians, criminologists, lawyers, ex-prisoners and political scientists. Women and Crime will be of interest to students of criminology.
