The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

Administrative / Constitutional Law

The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

Edited by Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez · Ruth Rubio-Marín
Cambridge University Press January 2023

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ISBN-13
9781108713306
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2023
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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
Joanne Conaghan
6. The reproductive subject: the reproductive subject and the embodied state of international human rights law
Joanna N. Erdman
7. The caring subject
Jonathan Herring
Part III. Communities:
8. The national subject
Melanie Toombs and Kim Rubenstein
9. The familial subject
Fernanda G. Nicola and Ann Shalleck
10. The political subject
Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez and Ruth Rubio Marin
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