The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

Author: Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez; Ruth Rubio-Marín
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108713306
Published In: January 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 the law and gender work to co-produce the legal subject. Cumulatively, the volume's chapters provide a systematic evaluation of the key facets of 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.

From law and gender to law as gender: the legal subject and the co-production hypothesis

Part I. Bodies:

1. The sexed subject

Marie-Xaviere Catto and Stefano Osella

2. The foetal subject: law, gender and embodiment

Michael Thomson

3. The terrorized subject: a critique of 'women', 'gender violence' and 'vulnerability' as legal categories

Márcia Nina Bernardes and Sofia Martins

4. The sexual subject: recasting the sexual citizen

Melissa Murray

Part II. Functions:

5. The working subject: the collusion of law and gender in the construction of working subjects