Less than Equal - Women and the Australian Legal System

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Less than Equal - Women and the Australian Legal System

By Patricia Easteal
LexisNexis Australia August 2001

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ISBN-13
9780409316667
Publisher
LexisNexis Australia
Publication
August 2001
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
Australia ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book examines the interaction between women and the law through a cultural holistic framework. Dr Easteal identifies various 'lenses' or 'mirrors' within our culture that affect how women fare in their contact with the Australian legal system. The reader learns how the dominant culture and the law's construction of reality may not correspond with many women's experiences.

Less than Equal - Women and the Australian Legal System challenges readers to become aware of and to examine their own biases and understandings of key concepts underlying western liberalism. The book suggests both micro-type answers and 'big picture' changes necessary to make the picture in the 'cultural kaleidoscope' more inclusive of women's voices, experience and knowledge.

Table of Contents

* Introduction - The Kaleidoscope of Reality


* Theories about Criminality and Impact on Sentencing


* Women Who Kill Violent Partners


* Single Parent Payment Fraud


* Women in Prison


* Violence Against Women in the Home


* Sexual Assault Law Reform and Mythology


* Discrimination and Dysfunction in the Workplace


* Sexual Harassment


* Intersectionality


* Greater than the Sum of the Parts


* Women as Legal Practitioners


* Outlaw Looking in

About the Author

Professor Patricia Easteal AM, PhD (editor), BA (SUNY Binghamton), MA PhD (University of Pittsburgh).

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