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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Other Machine
With technological advances in reproduction no longer confined to the laboratory or involving only the isolated individual, women and men are increasingly resorting to a variety of technologies unheard of a few decades ago to assist them in becoming parents. The public at large, and feminists as a group, are confused and divided over how to view these technologies and over what positions to take on the moral and legal dilemmas they give rise to. Farquhar argues that two perspectives have tended to dominate feminist discussions of these issues. She labels these: "fundamental feminism" and "market liberalism." By linking a theoterical approach with a practical set of issues, Farquhar's The Other Machine provides a rigorous analysis of contemporary feminist debates.
Women, Social Science and Public Policy
Originally published in 1985, Women, Social Science and Public Policy looks at what difference the debate over the position of women had made to the way social scientists worked and thought, or to law and social policies at the time. Debate had been widespread during the 1960s and 1970s and this book takes stock. It avoids the standard statistics on the position of women and concentrates instead on the challenges contained in this long debate to the way research topics and method are selected – challenges in effect to the assumption of ‘business as usual’ with the addition of a few details on women. Sponsored by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, this book is deliberately mul...
Women and the Law
Women in law - Equal opportunity and sex discrimination laws - Affirmative action and sex discrimination - Affirmative action and equal pay - Family law - Adoption acts - Aborigines and the law - Surrogacy - Deborah Wardley case - Sex discrimination and employment.
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.
