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1 online resource (xvii, 405 pages) |
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Global Thinkers Series |
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Global thinkers series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Edith Haynes challenges the legal profession. -- 2. Feminist jurisprudence: illusion or reality? -- 3. The contradictions of law reform. -- 4. Feminism and the changing state. -- 5. Sexual harassment losing sight of sex discrimination. -- 6. Hypercompetitiveness or a balanced life? -- 7. The flexible cyborg. -- 8. Who cares? The conundrum for gender equality. -- 9. Sex discrimination, courts and corporate power. -- 10. The High Court and judicial activism. -- 11. 'Otherness' on the bench. -- 12. Wondering what to do about legal education. -- 13. Why the gender and colour of law remain the same. -- 14. Universities upside-down. -- 15. The mirage of merit. |
| Summary |
As law was a means of legitimating the subordination of women and their exclusion from the public sphere for centuries, it cannot be expected to become a source of equality instantaneously without resistance from benchmark men, that is, those who are white, heterosexual, able-bodied and middle class. Equality, furthermore, was attainable only in the public sphere, whereas the private sphere was marked as a site of inequality; a wife, children and servants could never be the equals of the master. Despite ambivalence about the role of law and its contradictions, women and Others nevertheless felt that they had no alternative but to look to law as a means of liberation. This skewed patriarchal heritage has continued to impede the quest for equality by women and Others and is the subtext of this collection of essays. It informs not only gender relations in the private sphere, as illustrated by domestic violence and sexual assault, but also the status of women in the public sphere. Despite the fact that women have entered the paid workforce, including the professions in large numbers, they are still expected to assume responsibility for the preponderance of society's caring. The essays show how maternal and caring roles, which are still largely viewed as belonging to an unregulated private sphere, continue to be invoked to detract from the authority of the feminine in the public sphere. The promise of anti-discrimination legislation in overcoming the heritage of the past is also shown to be somewhat hollow. - Taken from publisher website. |
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Unless stated otherwise, the author retains copyright to their work while ANU Press retains exclusive worldwide rights for the distribution of the book. From 2018, the majority of ANU Press titles are published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which broadens the ways in which works can be used and distributed. Please refer to the copyright page of each book for more information on a specific title's copyright licensing. |
| Access |
National edeposit: Available online Unrestricted online access. star AU-CaNED |
| Terms Of Use |
Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 AU-CaNED |
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Women -- Social conditions -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Gender identity -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Law and the quest for gender equality Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2022 9781760465490 (OCoLC)1348911047 |
| ISBN |
9781760465506 (electronic book) |
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176046550X (electronic book) |
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9781760465490 (paperback) |
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1760465496 (paperback) |
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AU@ 000074728664 |
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AUNED 000074291316 |
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