Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law write by Susan Harris Rimmer. This book was released on 2019. Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For almost 30 years, scholars and advocates have been exploring the interaction and potential between the rights and well-being of women and the promise of international law. This collection posits that the next frontier for international law is increasing its relevance, beneficence and impact for women in the developing world, and to deal with a much wider range of issues through a feminist lens.
Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law
Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law write by Eithne Dowds. This book was released on 2020-01-23. Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work introduces and further develops the feminist strategy of 'norm transfer': the proposal that feminist informed standards created at the level of international criminal law make their way into domestic contexts. Situating this strategy within the complementarity regime of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it is argued that there is an opportunity for dialogue and debate around the contested aspects of international norms as opposed to uncritical acceptance. The book uses the crime of rape as a case study and offers a new perspective on one of the most contentious debates within international and domestic criminal legal feminism: the relationship between consent and coercion in the definition of rape. In analysing the ICC definition of rape, it is argued that the omission of consent as an explicit element is flawed. Arguing that the definition is in need of revision to explicitly include a context-sensitive notion of consent, the book goes further, setting out draft legislative amendments to the ICC 'Elements of Crimes' definition of rape and its Rules of Procedure and Evidence. Turning its attention to the domestic landscape, the book drafts amendments to the United Kingdom (UK) Sexual Offences Act 2003 and to the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999: thereby showing how the revised version of the ICC definition can be applied in context of the UK.
Feminist Engagement with the Law
Feminist Engagement with the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Engagement with the Law write by Elizabeth Comack. This book was released on 1993. Feminist Engagement with the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph analyzes the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in Lavallee [R. v. Lavallee (1990)] to recognize the Battered Woman Syndrome as relevant in cases involving women defendants who kill their abusive partners. The author suggests that, while there is much in the decision which would lead feminists to consider 'Lavalee' to be a benefit, the decision also legitimates the power of the 'psy' professions to interpret an abused woman's experiences. Accordingly, the Battered Woman Syndrome is criticized as offering an account which individualizes, medicalizes and depoliticizes the abuse. The discussion concludes with a consideration of the implications of the recognition for feminists.
Contesting Femicide
Contesting Femicide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting Femicide write by Adrian Howe. This book was released on 2018-09-03. Contesting Femicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law reforms as construing it as a site on which to contest gender and more particularly, gendered constructions of women’s experiences. Over the last 30 to 40 years, feminist law scholars and activists have launched scathing trans-jurisdictional critiques of the operation of provocation defences in hundreds of femicide cases. The evidence unearthed by feminist scholars that these defences operate in profoundly sexed ways is unequivocal. Accordingly, femicide cases have become critically important sites for feminist engagement and intervention across numerous jurisdictions. Exploring an area of criminal law that was not one of Smart’s own focal concerns, this book both honours and extends Smart’s work by approaching femicide as a site of engagement and counter-discourse that calls into question hegemonic representations of gendered relationships. Femicide cases thus provide a way to continue the endlessly valuable discursive work Smart advocated and practised in other fields of law: both in articulating alternative accounts of gendered relationships and in challenging law’s power to disqualify women’s experiences of violence while privileging men’s feelings and rights.
International Law
International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Law write by Doris E Buss. This book was released on 2005-06-21. International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together feminist scholars to explore the directions and tensions in feminist engagement with various areas of international law.
