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Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
By Ruth Vanita
* Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
* Number Of Pages:288
* Publication Date:2005-10-21
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1403970386
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781403970381
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This is the first book to examine same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides in India today, discussing these phenomena both in the context of the international debate on gay marriage, and in the context of past and present Indian and Euro-American cultural representations of same-sex union.
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Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice
By Niels Teunis, Gilbert Herdt, Richard Parker
* Publisher:University of California Press
* Number Of Pages:281
* Publication Date:2006-12-05
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0520246152
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780520246157
* Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and structural violence among a range of populations in various geographic, historical, and cultural arenas. In particular, the essays consider racial minorities including Hispanics, Koreans, and African Americans; discuss disabled people; examine issues including substance abuse, sexual coercion, and HIV/AIDS; and delve into other topics including religion and politics. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia. The authors address the complex and challenging question of how the research under discussion here can make a real contribution to the struggle for social justice.
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Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Corporeal Politics (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
By Penttinen
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:167
* Publication Date:2007-08-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415420997
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415420990
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by individuals.
Elina Penttinen illustrates how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of Russian and Baltic female sex workers, she demonstrates how the embodiment and reiteration of globalization on the bodies of gendered individuals are tied to the larger processes of globalization. Appadurai’s framework of landscapes of globalization is developed into a framework of shadow sexscapes in order to show how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows and in turn operates as a form of shadow globalization.
Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking will be of interest to students and researchers of international relations, globalization and gender studies.
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Sexuality and the Law
By Vanessa Munro
* Publisher:Routledge Cavendish
* Number Of Pages:317
* Publication Date:2007-06-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1904385672
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781904385677
* Binding:Hardcover
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‘Rediscovering’ the peculiarity of feminist perspectives, rather than examining the broader range of gender-oriented analyses, in the area of legal regulation and sexuality, this edited collection avoids the ‘reductionist' and 'essentialist' shortcomings of ‘feminism unmodified’.
With a substantial introductory chapter, written by the editors, summarizing the state of the law on core aspects of sexuality and providing a critical appraisal of the key themes and concerns, it analyzes and transcends the traditional dichotomised thinking (e.g coercion/choice, victim/agent) about the regulation of gender issues. It addresses a broad range of key themes including:
* crime
* the family and child
* contract law
* jurisprudence
* public and international law.
Offering a space in which to re-vitalize a feminist conception of sexuality, this book is an essential read for law students interested in the legal implications of gender and sexuality.
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Same-Sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political
By Kevin Alderson, Kathleen A. Lahey
* Publisher:Insomniac Press
* Number Of Pages:384
* Publication Date:2000-09-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1894663632
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781894663632
* Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
The same-sex marriage phenomenon is characterized on one hand by intense personal joys and on the other by longstanding activism and historic legal reasoning. Same-Sex Marriage tells both stories: the experiences of couples who have been able to marry, and the stories behind the scenes that explain how the legal battle has finally been fought.
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
By David A. Morton
* Publisher:NOLO
* Number Of Pages:350
* Publication Date:2003-05
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0873379144
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780873379144
* Binding:Paperback
Book Description:
Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability is an essential book for anyone dealing with a long-term or permanent disability. Written both for first-time applicants and those who already receive Social Security Disability, Dr. David Morton's book demystifies the program in plain English, thoroughly explaining:
*what Social Security disability is
*what benefits are available to disabled children
*how to prove a disability
*how age, education and work experience affect benefits
*whether or not one can work while receiving benefits
*how to appeal a denial of benefits
*how to respond to a Continuing Disability Review
*and much more
Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability also provides in-depth information on various health problems, including breathing disabilities, heart disease, mental disorders, speech impairments, cancer, immune system disorders -- and much more
The 2nd edition, completely updated with the latest rules and medical listings, provides new information on handling appeals hearings, and shows how to participate in the Ticket to Work and Ticket to Hire programs. User-friendly appendices translate bureaucratic terms, provide medical-vocational rules, and list Social Security benefit publications.
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Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law
By Kathleen E. Hull
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:294
* Publication Date:2006-03-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:052185654X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521856546
* Binding:Hardcover
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Fierce and often ugly battles are being waged, especially in the United States, over who is allowed to marry, what marriage signifies, and where marriage is headed. Kathleen Hull examines these debates, and data from interviews with over seventy people in same-sex relationships, to explore the cultural practices surrounding same-sex marriage and the legal battle for recognition. Arguing that the cultural and legal dimensions of marriage are closely intertwined, she shows how same-sex couples use marriage-related cultural practices, such as public commitment rituals, to assert the reality of their commitments despite lack of legal recognition. Though many same-sex couples see the law of the state to hold a unique cultural power to legitimate their relationships and identities, Hull finds that their opponents equally look to the law to re-establish a social normalcy that excludes same-sex relationships. This is a timely look at a contentious issue.
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Prostitution: The Denied Industry (Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics)
By Mari Di Tommaso
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:93
* Publication Date:2008-07-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415397170
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415397179
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes. Using economic tools of analysis, internationally based editors have put together a theoretically informed volume that explores the supply and demand of prostitution.
Prostitution is a globalized industry involving millions of workers and it is characterized by a high degree of inequality in working conditions (ranging from slavery to self managed and legalised unionised employment), by different sub-markets and fully integrated in the productive system.
Taking a provocative approach to prostitution, this book is a must read for students and researchers in the area of gender and economics.
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Sexual Misconduct And The Clergy (Library in a Book)
By Jeffrey Ferro
* Publisher:Facts on File
* Number Of Pages:280
* Publication Date:2005-01-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0816054940
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780816054947
* Binding:Hardcover
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Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent
By Susan Ehrlich
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:168
* Publication Date:2001-03-16
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415205212
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415205214
* Binding:Library Binding
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Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events are often the only type of evidence available. Language does not simply reflect but helps to construct the character of the people and events under investigation. The book is based around a case study of the trial of a male student accused of two instances of sexual assault in two different settings: a university tribunal and a criminal trial. This case is situated within international studies on rape trials and is relevant to the legal systems of the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. She shows how culturally-dominant notions about rape percolate through the talk of sexual assault cases in a variety of settings and ultimately shape their outcome. Ehrlich hopesthat to understand rape trials in this way is to recognize their capacity for change. By highlighting the underlying preconceptions and prejudices in the language of courtrooms today, this important book paves the way towards a fairer judicial system for the future.
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Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Perspectives on Gender)
By Elizabeth Bernstein, Laurie Schaffner
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:344
* Publication Date:2004-11-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:041594869X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415948692
* Binding:Paperback
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Regulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and political perspectives.
Contributors include Laura Agustín, Mary Bernstein, Wendy Chapkis, Paisley Currah, Kjersti Ericsson, Gert Hekma, Janet R. Jakobsen, Kerwin Kaye, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Shannon Minter, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Will Rountree, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Penelope Saunders, and Steven Seidman.
Accessibly written for use as a companion or text in sociology of law, gender, family, childhood and youth studies, and sexuality courses, Regulating Sex challenges status quo analyses in the sociology of sexuality and the state.
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Television and Sexuality (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)
By Jane Arthurs
* Publisher:Open University Press
* Number Of Pages:208
* Publication Date:2004-09-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0335209750
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780335209750
* Binding:Paperback
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Television and Sexuality explores a range of approaches to the analysis of television as an institutionalized cultural form that shapes the discursive construction of sex and gender. It locates competing discourses about sex and gender in relation to developments in academic theory and transformations in the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts. The book also examines the politics of representation in relation to sex and gender.
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THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S TOP COUNTER-TERRORIST FORCES
By Samuel M. Katz
* Publisher:Concord Publications
* Number Of Pages:256
* Publication Date:1995
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9623616023
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789623616027
* Binding:Paperback
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Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
By Bee Wilson
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Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:400
Publication Date:2008-09-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691138206
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691138206
Binding:Hardcover
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Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many ways swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and even poisoned our food throughout history. In the hands of people and corporations who have prized profits above the health of consumers, food and drink have been tampered with in often horrifying ways--padded, diluted, contaminated, substituted, mislabeled, misnamed, or otherwise faked. Swindled gives a panoramic view of this history, from the leaded wine of the ancient Romans to today's food frauds--such as fake organics and the scandal of Chinese babies being fed bogus milk powder.
Wilson pays special attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and England and their roles in developing both industrial-scale food adulteration and the scientific ability to combat it. As Swindled reveals, modern science has both helped and hindered food fraudsters--increasing the sophistication of scams but also the means to detect them. The big breakthrough came in Victorian England when a scientist first put food under the microscope and found that much of what was sold as "genuine coffee" was anything but--and that you couldn't buy pure mustard in all of London.
Arguing that industrialization, laissez-faire politics, and globalization have all hurt the quality of food, but also that food swindlers have always been helped by consumer ignorance, Swindled ultimately calls for both governments and individuals to be more vigilant. In fact, Wilson suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves about the joys of food and cooking.
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In Defense of a Political Court.
By Terri Jennings Peretti
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Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:371
Publication Date:1999-08-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691009058
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691009056
Binding:Hardcover
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Book Description:
Can the Supreme Court be free of politics? Do we want it to be? Normative constitutional theory has long concerned itself with the legitimate scope and limits of judicial review. Too often, theorists seek to resolve that issue by eliminating politics from constitutional decisionmaking. In contrast, Terri Peretti argues for an openly political role for the Supreme Court.
Peretti asserts that politically motivated constitutional decisionmaking is not only inevitable, it is legitimate and desirable as well. When Supreme Court justices decide in accordance with their ideological values, or consider the likely political reaction to the Court's decisions, a number of benefits result. The Court's performance of political representation and consensus-building functions is enhanced, and the effectiveness of political checks on the Court is increased. Thus, political motive in constitutional decision making does not lead to judicial tyranny, as many claim, but goes far to prevent it. Using pluralist theory, Peretti further argues that a political Court possesses instrumental value in American democracy. As one of many diverse and redundant political institutions, the Court enhances both system stability and the quality of policymaking, particularly regarding the breadth of interests represented.
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On Constitutional Ground
By John Hart Ely
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Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:520
Publication Date:1996-08-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691086443
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691086446
Binding:Hardcover
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Download Description:
John Hart Ely is a leading contemporary writer on political theory from the standpoint of American constitutional law. This collection covers a full range of topics of constitutional interpretation: federalism, separation of powers, freedom of expression, religious freedom, criminal procedure, racial discrimination, "substantive due process," and honesty in government. Organized under these heads and linked by the author's witty explanatory and autobiographical remarks, the essays and other documents--many previously unpublished in any forum--range chronologically over the past three decades, from memoranda he wrote as a student working with lead counsel Abe Fortas on the landmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright to a comment on the constitutional implications of the O. J. Simpson verdict. Before beginning his academic career, Ely was the junior member of the Warren Commission's sixteen-lawyer staff, Chief Justice Earl Warren's law clerk, and a public defender in San Diego; and during the Ford Administration he took time off to serve as the third-ranking official of the U.S. Department of Transportation. This book reflects his various experience. It comments on many of the past quarter century's "hot button" issues--including abortion, affirmative action, anti-Communist legislation, busing, flag burning, governmental display of nativity scenes, the Nixon impeachment, "trial by newspaper," the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill contretemps, congressionally unauthorized war in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia, and whether the Warren Commission Report should be officially reexamined.
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Literary Criticisms of Law
By Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg
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Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:554
Publication Date:2000-02-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691007233
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691007236
Binding:Hardcover
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In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal authority, narrate disputed facts and hypothetical fictions, represent persons before the law, move audiences with artful rhetoric, and invent new legal forms and concepts. Binder and Weisberg explain the literary theories and methods increasingly applied to law, and they introduce and synthesize the work of over a hundred authors in the fields of law, literature, philosophy, and cultural studies.
Drawing on these disparate bodies of scholarship, Binder and Weisberg analyze law as interpretation, narration, rhetoric, language, and culture, placing each of these approaches within the history of literary and legal thought. They sort the styles of analysis most likely to sharpen critical understanding from those that risk self-indulgent sentimentalism or sterile skepticism, and they endorse a broadly synthetic cultural criticism that views law as an arena for composing and contesting identity, status, and character. Such a cultural criticism would evaluate law not simply as a device for realizing rights and interests but also as the framework for a vibrant cultural life.
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Torah and Law in Paradise Lost
By Jason P. Rosenblatt
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Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:288
Publication Date:1994-07-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691033404
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691033402
Binding:Hardcover
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Book Description:
It has been the fate of Milton, the most Hebraic of the great English poets, to have been interpreted in this century largely by those inhospitable to his Hebraism. To remedy this lack of balance, Jason Rosenblatt reveals Milton's epic representations of paradise and the fallen world to be the supreme coordinates of an interpretive struggle, in which Jewish beliefs that the Hebrew Bible was eternally authoritative Torah were set against the Christian view that it was a temporary law superseded by the New Testament. Arguing that the Milton of the 1643-1645 prose tracts saw the Hebrew Bible from the Jewish perspective, Rosenblatt shows that these tracts are the principal doctrinal matrix of the middle books of Paradise Lost, which present the Hebrew Bible and Adam and Eve as self-sufficient entities.
Rosenblatt acknowledges that later in Paradise Lost, after the fall, a Pauline hermeneutic reduces the Hebrew Bible to a captive text and Adam and Eve to shadowy types. But Milton's shift to a radically Pauline ethos at that point does not annul the Hebraism of the earlier part of the work. If Milton resembles Paul, it is not least because his thought could attain harmonies only through dialectic. Milton's poetry derives much of its power from deep internal struggles over the value and meaning of law, grace, charity, Christian liberty, and the relationships among natural law, the Mosaic law, and the gospel.
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Responding to Imperfection
By Sanford Levinson
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Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:352
Publication Date:1995-02-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691086575
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691086576
Binding:Hardcover
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An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading legal authorities and political scientists on a range of questions from whether the U.S. Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how significant change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Though the essays are concerned for the most part with the American experience, other constitutional traditions are considered as well.
The contributors include Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Reed Amar, Mark E. Brandon, David R. Dow, Stephen M. Griffin, Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, Sanford Levinson, Donald Lutz, Walter Murphy, Frederick Schauer, John R. Vile, and Noam J. Zohar.
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Settling Accounts
By John Borneman
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Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:197
Publication Date:1997-11-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691016828
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691016825
Binding:Hardcover
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As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence. In Settling Accounts, John Borneman explores the attempts by these aspiring democratic states to invoke the principles of the "rule of law" as a means of achieving retributive justice, that is, convicting wrongdoers and restoring dignity to victims of moral injuries. Democratic regimes, Borneman maintains, require a strict form of accountability that holds leaders responsible for acts of criminality. This accountability is embodied in the principles of the rule of law, and retribution is at the moral center of these principles.
Drawing from his ethnographic work in the former East Germany and with select comparisons to other East-Central European states, Borneman critically examines the construction of categories of criminality. He argues against the claims that economic growth, liberal democracy, or acts of reconciliation are adequate means to legitimate the transformed East bloc states. The cycles of violence in states lacking a system of retributive justice help to support this claim. Invocation of the principles of the rule of law must be seen as a chance for a more democratic, more accountable, and less violent world.