Australian feminist judgments : righting and rewriting law /
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Hart Publishing, ©2014. |
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| Description: | xxx, 462 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10115665 |
| Summary: | This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases. By re-imagining original legal decisions through a feminist lens, the collection explores the possibilities, limits and implications of feminist approaches to legal decision-making. Each case is accompanied by a brief commentary that places it in legal and historical context and explains what the feminist rewriting does differently to the original case. The cases not only cover topics of long-standing interest to feminist scholars - such as family law, sexual offences and discrimination law - but also areas which have had less attention, including Indigenous sovereignty, constitutional law, immigration, taxation and environmental law. The collection contributes a distinctly Australian perspective to the growing international literature investigating the role of feminist legal theory in judicial decision-making. |
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| Physical Description: | xxx, 462 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849465212 1849465215 |
