At the center of the “war on women” lies the fact that women in the contemporary United States are facing more widespread and increased surveillance of their reproductive health and decisions. In recent years states have passed a record number of laws restricting abortion. Physicians continue to sterilize some women against their will, especially those in prison, while other women who choose to forego reproduction cannot find physicians to sterilize them. While these actions seem to undermine women’s decision-making authority, experts and state actors often defend them in terms of promoting women’s autonomy.             In Governed through Choice, Jennifer M. Denbow exposes the way that the notion of autonomy allows for this apparent contradiction and explores how it plays out in recent reproductive law, including newly enacted informed consent to abortion laws like ultrasound mandates and the regulation of sterilization. Denbow also shows how developments in reproductive technology, which would seem to increase women’s options and autonomy, provide even more opportunities for state management of women’s bodies. The book argues that notions of autonomy and choice, as well as transformations in reproductive technology, converge to enable the state’s surveillance of women and undermine their decision-making authority. Yet, Denbow asserts that there is a way forward and offers an alternative understanding of autonomy that focuses on critique and social transformation. Moreover, while reproductive technologies may heighten surveillance, they can also help disrupt oppressive norms about reproduction and gender, and create space for transformation. A critically important analysis, Governed through Choice is a trailblazing look at how the law regulates women’s bodies as reproductive sites and what can be done about it. 

Product Description: WOMEN AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE sheds light on how gender, race, and class affect the status of women in the context of policing, courts, and corrections. Systematic and engaging, McShane and Hsieh integrate the perspectives and experiences of women who are employed in the criminal justice system, as well as those who are offenders or victims of crime...read more

When women won the vote in the United States in 1920 they were still routinely barred from serving as jurors, but some began vigorous campaigns for a place in the jury box. This book tells the story of how women mobilized in fifteen states to change jury laws so that women could gain this additional right of citizenship. Some campaigns quickly succeeded; others took substantially longer. The book reveals that when women strategically adapted their tactics to the broader political environment, they were able to speed up the pace of jury reform, while less strategic movements took longer. A comparison of the more strategic women's jury movements with those that were less strategic shows that the former built coalitions with other women's groups, took advantage of political opportunities, had more past experience in seeking legal reforms, and confronted tensions and even conflict within their ranks in ways that bolstered their action.

Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation, and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship - in the laws and constitutions of many countries, as well as in international human rights documents - and the reality of women's lives. This volume presents a collection of original works that examine this persisting inequality through the lens of citizenship. Distinguished scholars in law, political science, and women's studies investigate the many dimensions of women's equal citizenship, including constitutional citizenship, democratic citizenship, social citizenship, sexual and reproductive citizenship, and global citizenship. Gender Equality takes stock of the progress toward - and remaining impediments to - securing equal citizenship for women, develops strategies for pursuing that goal, and identifies new questions that will shape further inquiries.

Product Description: The new edition of this highly regarded casebook offers an updated examination of law and theory relating to gender.<p class=copymedium> Instructors choose GENDER AND LAW: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary for: <li class=copymedium>a thorough analysis of gender and law through several distinct perspectives, which include formal equality, substantive equality, nonsubordination theory, difference theory, autonomy, and non-essentialism <li class=copymedium>going far beyond traditional 'women's' issues to draw cases, theory, and commentary from many different areas of the law, such as employment law, criminal law, constitutional law, family law, civil procedure, legal ethics, property law, and contracts<li class=copymedium>explaining to students the complex ways in which laws are said to be 'gendered'<li class=copymedium>including extensive coverage of issues relating to sexuality<li class=copymedium>unique 'Putting Theory into Practice' problems at the end of each section, which allow students to apply the legal and theoretical tools to cutting edge legal issues</ul><p class=copymedium> The Fourth Edition keeps pace with important developments: <li class=copymedium>updated material on women in the legal profession and legal education now relates the story behind a famous case, Ezold v...read more

Product Description: At long last, the complex field of feminist legal theory is presented in accessible, teachable form by two of its experts, Nancy Levit and Robert R. M. Verchick. In this outstanding primer, the authors introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal theory and the array of substantive legal issues relevant to women's and gender studies...read more

Product Description: Mansfield, Edward D. The Legal Rights, Liabilities and Duties of Women; With an Introductory History of Their Legal Condition in the Hebrew, Roman and Feudal Civil Systems. Including the Law of Marriage and Divorce, The Social Relations of Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, and of Employer and Employed...read more

Product Description: In Women’s Rights in the USA, Fourth Edition, McBride and Parry examine the policy debates critical to women in American society. Analyzing both the historical contexts and current controversies, the authors show the processes behind the statutes, court cases, and administrative rules pertaining to issues such as education, work pay, family, sexuality, and economic status and examine the role of women activists in shaping them...read more

This groundbreaking work remains the only introductory student treatise on feminist legal theory. Martha Chamallas surveys the full range of legal issues affecting women, from rape and domestic violence to workplace discrimination and taxation issues. Her historical approach, which traces the evolution of legal feminism from the 1970s to the present, is especially valuable for today¿s generation of students. This revised edition explores a new territory, with the latest cases and scholarly thinking on such topics as gender and athletics, the intersection of sex, race, and sexual orientation, and international human rights. One of the most enlightening books your students are likely to read.<p class=copymedium><b>The first treatise of its kind, this pioneering work features:</b><p class=copymedium><li class=copymedium>the only introductory survey of feminist jurisprudence, providing a concise introduction to the full range of legal issues affecting women, including gender discrimination, rape, sexual harassment, reproductive issues, and much more<li class=copymedium>a historical overview of feminist legal theory, placing legal issues in social context, with a review of the evolving paradigms of contemporary feminism from the 1970s through the present<li class=copymedium>a clear, energetic presentation keeping students alert and involved with concise overviews, intellectually stimulating material, and succinct, jargon-free prose<p class=copymedium><b>This new 2003 edition has been thoroughly updated to include:</b><p class=copymedium><li class=copymedium>a look at recent advances in feminist theory and law as the field moves from the diversity issues of the 1990s to the emerging perspectives of the twenty-first century<li class=copymedium>new developments in gender and human rights with debates over feminism and multicultural racism and the treatment of sex crimes as international human rights violations<li class=copymedium>a new section on gender and athletics, discussing recent advances in gender discrimination law and the theory of sexual equality under Title IX<li class=copymedium> updated materials on sexual harassment<li class=copymedium>more on critical race theory and feminism, with new perspectives and expanded treatment of discrimination against racial groups other than African Americans<li class=copymedium>new legal issues pertaining to work and family, including recent cases involving job discrimination against mothers and the legal strategies for addressing home-workplace conflicts

The new edition of this highly regarded casebook offers an updated examination of law and theory relating to gender.<p class=copymedium> Instructors choose GENDER AND LAW: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary for: <li class=copymedium>a thorough analysis of gender and law through several distinct perspectives, which include formal equality, substantive equality, nonsubordination theory, difference theory, autonomy, and non-essentialism <li class=copymedium>going far beyond traditional 'women's' issues to draw cases, theory, and commentary from many different areas of the law, such as employment law, criminal law, constitutional law, family law, civil procedure, legal ethics, property law, and contracts<li class=copymedium>explaining to students the complex ways in which laws are said to be 'gendered'<li class=copymedium>including extensive coverage of issues relating to sexuality<li class=copymedium>unique 'Putting Theory into Practice' problems at the end of each section, which allow students to apply the legal and theoretical tools to cutting edge legal issues</ul><p class=copymedium> The Fourth Edition keeps pace with important developments: <li class=copymedium>updated material on women in the legal profession and legal education now relates the story behind a famous case, Ezold v. Wolf Block<li class=copymedium>the text contains updates of most important new cases and theoretical insights relating to employment law, Title IX, criminal sentencing, welfare and Social Security reform, affirmative action, teenage pregnancy, gay and lesbian rights, women in combat, international human rights, rape in wartime, global trafficking, sexual harassment, the Internet, women's health, women in the legal profession, and more<li class=copymedium>new cases, statistics, commentary, and empirical studies of the law in action appear in the materials on sexual harassment, domestic violence, and rape <li class=copymedium>important new cases include Goodridge v. Mass. (right to same-sex marriage), Nevada v. Hibbs (upholding the Family and Medical Leave Act), Lawrence v. Texas (invalidating anti-sodomy statute), and Jespersen v. Harrah's (make-up requirement for waitresses) <li class=copymedium>more material on international law in the area of rape and global trafficking</ul>

The fifth edition of Marketing is the result of a detailed and rigorous developmental process designed to provide customer value in several ways. first, we continue to use the active-learning approach that has been the foundation of our previous editions. Second, we have incorporated many new examples, tools and design elements that are consistent with the learning styles for today's students. Third, we have added, deleted and modified topics and content based on our own expertise and the advice of may knowledgeable reviewers. Overall, the fifth edition of Marketing represents our efforts to guarantee the high quality of previous editions and to continue our tradition of growth and improvement.

A thorough, general guide to the law for women counsels women on their rights in a variety of situations, covering family law, housing law, consumer and criminal law, and job discrimination