The Cambridge Companion To Gender And The Law

With systematic, thematic chapters, this volume demonstrates how law and gender co-produce gendered legal subjects.

To what extent is the legal subject gendered? Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions and thematically organised chapters, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of this question. With a systematic, accessible approach, it argues that law and gender work to co-produce the legal subject. Cumulatively, the volume's chapters provide a systematic evaluation of the key facets of the legal subject: the corporeal, the functional and the communal. Exploring aspects of the legal subject from the ways in which it is sexed and sexualised to its national and familial dimensions, this volume develops a complete account of the various processes through which legal orders produce gendered subjects. Across its chapters, each theoretically ambitious in its own right, this volume outlines how the law not only acts on the social world, but genders it.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing family law globally, and explores how different countries have tackled them.

An innovative textbook setting out a systematic approach to business and human rights.

A wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.

Introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law.

This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.