Product Description: Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. It is deliberately broad in scope, as it takes the view that family law cannot be defined in a traditional way...read more

Product Description: This book brings together essays on themes of human rights and legal history, reflecting the long and distinguished career of Brian Simpson as an academic writer and a human rights activist. The collection opens with a biography of Simpson's academic life, noting his major contribution to legal thought, and closes with an account of his career in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This anthology of essays focuses on the human rights of children in the area of sexuality. Looking at the theoretical aspects, essays examine the history and construction of concepts of childhood and child sexuality, while other essays take an interdisciplinary approach, examining anthropological, sociological, psychological and economic perspectives on law and childhood sexuality...read more

Product Description: Conventional family law textbooks assume that marriage is the essential feature of family life. This book challenges the assumptions of conventional textbooks by seeking alternative ways of examining the matters at issue in the law.

Product Description: Legislation on sex discrimination and equal pay has been in operation in the UK for just over a decade. This book critically examines the nature of the legislation, its impact on women and the labour market, and its interaction with the law of the European Community as it has affected the UK...read more