In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that seek to address the "balance" between work and family. Millions of women in the U.S. take some time off when they give birth or adopt a child, making use of "family-friendly" laws and policies in order to spend time recuperating and to initiate a bond with their children. The Balance Gap traces the paths individual women take in understanding and invoking work/life balance laws and policies....

¿Cuáles son las vinculaciones entre los feminismos y el derecho? ¿Qué entendemos por "feminismos jurídicos"? ¿Cuáles son las implicancias de pensar y hacer derecho desde este anclaje político? ¿Qué supone una lectura feminista jurídica situada? ¿Cómo se articulan las vías de recepción e inventiva feminista entre textos y problemas del Norte y Sur globales? Estas cuestiones, entre tantas otras, sustentan la arquitectura del libro. La...

Multidisciplinary work on sexual assault.

Brings together the workplace experiences of transgender people with an assessment of current policy protections. The complex and changing state of policy protections for transgender communities practically requires trans people to become legal experts just to navigate their everyday lives. It also simultaneously offers a window of opportunity for legal advocates to shape new laws and policies based on the lived experiences of trans people. Using...

We Are Heroines pays tribute to the rich history of the Bangladeshi women's movement from the 1970s to the present day. It explores and analyses the rise and fall of the women's movement, thus showing us the truth of gender inequality in Bangladesh. For too long, women have been dehumanised and rejected by their communities if they defy social norms. As a consequence, women's experiences have been flatlined under the male gaze. We Are Heroines is...

En la violencia laboral, problemática que los trabajadores vienen padeciendo, cada vez se vivencia más la dificultad de comunicarla por la pérdida del trabajo que ello implica. El acoso laboral, realidad en verdad deshumanizante y patologizante, en Argentina se detectan como más connotativo el abuso verbal, el abuso sexual, el aislamiento, el cambio drástico en la rutina, las amenazas, la intimidación. Distintas partículas de la composición...

Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel. In Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition, Patricia J. Woods returns to an issue that has only grown in relevance since the first edition's publication in 2008: the religious-secular conflict in Israel. The first edition focused on the role that courts and justices play in deeply charged political battles. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, social groups...

Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law...

Fifty years in a law profession she loves, twenty-four of which were spent as judge, Nancy Morrison has stories to tell. Being a former judge, Nancy could not have written this book during the 24 years on the bench. It is very much a political book, focusing on the need for law reform. Entertaining, at times warm and witty, it is also a memoir that reminds us of dark days. Nancy Morrison's career spanned three provinces and two territories, as a lawyer,...

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie's Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and courtrooms of "Toronto the Good," cast with all the lurid stock characters of the genre. Historian Ian Radforth brings to life an era in which abortion was illegal, criminal proceedings were a spectator sport, and coded...