| Australian Feminist Judgments Contributor(s): Douglas, Heather (Editor), Bartlett, Francesca (Editor), Luker, Trish (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1849465215 ISBN-13: 9781849465212 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Gender & The Law |
| Dewey: 340.1 |
| LCCN: 2015372829 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.72 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |