Product Description: The image of “backlash” is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy. But does it really explain the resistance to feminist initiatives for social change in contemporary culture?In Reaction and Resistance, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy – child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault – and in a number of institutional sites: courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy...read more

Product Description: Updated to reflect new legislation, directives, and jurisprudence, this exploration of the relationship between law and society takes on the full range of legal areas—including family law, immigration, and sexual violence—and contains new sections on current issues such as occupational health and safety, welfare law, and laws regarding homosexuals...read more

Product Description: Over the past 15 years, the citizenship debate in political and social theory has undergone an extraordinary renaissance. To date, much of the writing on citizenship, within and beyond Canada, has been oriented toward the development of theory, or has concentrated on contemporary issues and examples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Regulating Lives looks at the roles of the state, society, the individual, and the law in the regulation of public and private life. In nine original essays, the authors apply the concepts of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality, as developed by influential social theorists such as Stanley Cohen, Michel Foucault, and Philip Corrigan, to the specific conditions that prevailed in early British Columbia...read more

Product Description: The goal of the editors in this volume is to build on, and empirically flesh out, the feminist argument that law cannot be thought of as simply a determining force in the defining of 'woman;' it must be thought of as a site of struggle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)