Feminist Perspectives on the Foundational Subjects of Law

by Bottomley, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781859411940
• ISBN10: 1859411940
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Cavendish Pub Ltd

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Exploring Foundational Subjects	p. 1
Contracting Out/Contracting In: Some Feminist Considerations	p. 5
Gender and Contracts	p. 17
Tort Law and the Feminist Critique of Reason	p. 47
A Feminist Challenge to Tort Law	p. 69
Being Here: What a Woman Can Say About Land Law	p. 87
Figures in a Landscape: Feminist Perspectives on Law, Land and Landscape	p. 109
Mapping Equity's Place: Here be Dragons	p. 125
Beauty and the Beastly Bank: What Should Equity's Fairy Wand Do?	p. 149
The Mirror Tells its Tale: Constructions of Gender in Criminal Law	p. 173
Battered Woman Syndrome: Shifting the Parameters of Criminal Law Defences (or (Re)Inscribing the Familiar?)	p. 191
Critical Perspectives on Women's Rights: The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms	p. 223
A New Settlement Between the Sexes? Constitutional Law and the Citizenship of Women	p. 243
Equality of Treatment in European Community Law: The Limits of Market Equality	p. 261
The Internal Market and the European Union: Some Feminist Notes	p. 279
Index	p. 299
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