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Biographical note
Rosemary Hunter is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent, Canterbury, the Academic Editor of Feminist Legal Studies, and Chair of the RCSL Working Group on Gender and Law....a good primer to a rich set of theoretical arguments and debates, providing a solid overview, not just of international legal development through a feminist lens, but also feminist thought more generally. The extensive footnotes will be prized by law and APD scholars, as well as those looking at projects relating to the expression of gender in institutions more broadly. The collection represents a great effort by Hunter and her colleagues.
- Adam L. Kress, The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 19 No.1
Introduction: Feminism and Equality
Rosemary Hunter
Part I Equality Projects in Law Reform
1. The Married Women’s Property Acts: Equality Was Not the Issue
Rosemary Auchmuty
2. The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts
Heather Douglas
3. Is Equality Enough? Fathers’ Rights and Women’s Rights Advocacy
Susan B Boyd
4. Alternatives to Equality
Rosemary Hunter
Part II Constitutional Equality Projects
5. Equality Rights: What’s Wrong?
Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan
6. Haunting (In)equalities
Karin Van Marle
Part III Personal Equality Projects in the Legal Profession
7. Gender Equality and Legal Professionalism: Challenges for the First Women Lawyers
Mary Jane Mossman
8. That Obscure Object of Desire: Sex Equality and the Legal Profession
Hilary Sommerlad
Original research and theory on the relations between law, legal institutions and social processes.
The volumes in this series are eclectic in their disciplines, methodologies and theoretical perspectives, but they all share a strong comparative emphasis. The volumes originate in workshops hosted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
Founding Series Editors:
William L F Felstiner
Eve Darian-Smith
Editorial Board:
Carlos Lugo, Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico
Jacek Kurczewski, Warsaw University, Poland
Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Ulrike Schultz, Fern Universität, Germany