Volume 18 no. 1 of Feminist Legal Studies will be published in April 2010.
ARTICLES:
Charlotte Leslie interrogates ‘The “Psychiatric Masquerade”: The Mental Health Exception in New Zealand Abortion Law
SPECIAL SECTION – MARKETS AND SEXUALITIES:
Introduced by Kate Bedford
Beverley Skeggs analyses ‘The Value of Relationships: Affective Scenes and Emotional Performances’ in reality TV shows
Ara Wilson investigates the constitution of ‘Post-Fordist Desires: The Commodity Aesthetics of Bankok Sex Shows’
Camila Bassi and Ruth Fletcher respond to Skeggs’ and Wilson’s papers
Margaret Denike considers the implications of Jasbir Puar’s work in ‘Homonormative Collusions and the Subject of Rights: Reading Terrorist Assemblages‘
BOOK REVIEWS:
Yvette Russell reviews Louise du Toit’s A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
Jo Pearman reviews Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair’s Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain: The Story of Madeleine Smith
Jill Marshall reviews Janice Richardson’s The Classic Social Contractarians: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Feminist Philosophy and Law
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Volume 17 no.3 of Feminist Legal Studies was published in December 2009.
ARTICLES
Dayna Nadine Scott discusses the nature of the ‘harm’ suffered by a Canadian First Nations community as a result of endocrine-disrupting chemical pollution in ‘”Gender-benders”: Sex, Law and the Constitution of Polluted Bodies’.
Geetanjali Gangoli and Khatidja Chantler consider recent reforms to UK immigration law intended to minimise the incidence of forced marriages in ‘Protecting Victims of Forced Marriage: Is Age a Protective Factor?’
SPECIAL SECTION – ‘Law, Gender and Sexuality: The Making of a Field’
Alison Diduck, Harriet Samuels, Joanne Conaghan, Les Moran, Ruth Fletcher, Sameena Dalwai and Brenna Bhandar reflect on the ‘field’ of law, gender and sexuality as an area of research and scholarship – its constitution, status, central concerns, and future directions.
LEGISLATIVE NOTE
Marie Fox provides an overview and feminist critique of the new HFE legislation in ‘The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008: Tinkering at the Margins’.
BOOK REVIEWS
Brenna Bhandar reviews Joan W. Scott’s The Politics of the Veil.
Gerry Rubin reviews Anne Logan’s Feminism and Criminal Justice: A Historical Perspective.
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Vol.17, issue 2 of FLS, published August 2009, is now available.
ARTICLES:
Ruth Cain interrogates the medico-legal construction of postnatal depression in ‘”A View You Won’t Get Anywhere Else?” Depressed Mothers, Public Regulation and ‘Private’ Narrative’.
Doris Buss critically engages with international criminal law in ‘Rethinking ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’ .
Sundari Anitha and Aisha Gill deconstruct dichotomies in ‘Coercion, Consent and the Forced Marriage Debate in the UK’.
Priska Gisler, Sara Steinert Borella and Caroline Weidmer investigate the dynamics of Swiss family law from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the present in ‘Doubles Lives, Double Narratives: Tracing the Story of the Family in Rousseau, the Swiss Family Code and the Fathers’ Rights Debates’.
CASENOTES:
Rosemary Auchmuty on Burden v UK.
Ralph Sandland on Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Joanne Conaghan on Vanessa Munro’s Law and Politics at the Perimeter: Re-Evaluating Key Debates in Feminist Theory.
Georgina Firth on Jennifer Temkin & Barbara Krahe’s Sexual Assault and the Justice Gap: A Question of Attitude.
Steve Robertson on Michael Thomson’s Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body.
Wade Mansell on Tsachi Keren-Paz’s Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice.
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A series of articles in recent issues of Feminist Legal Studies have explored the association between women and peace. In ‘Ples Bilong Mere: Law, Gender and Peace-Building in Solomon Islands’ (vol. 16/2, 169-194), Jennifer Corrin examined the role of women in peace-building and post-conflict public life in Solomon Islands, in light of theoretical arguments aligning women with peacefulness.
In the following issue, we published Hilary Charlesworth’s lecture ‘Are Women Peaceful? Reflections on the Role of Women in Peace-Building’, in which she identified and critiqued the ‘UN orthodoxy’ that has developed around women and peace-building. Alongside it were responses from Sari Kouvo and Corey Levine, and Kathryn Lockett, written from the perspective of their experiences working in women’s NGOs and international institutions in conflict and post-conflict situations.
In the most recent issue (17/2, now available online – click on the link to the FLS website on the right), Ralph Sandland takes issue with Charlesworth’s argument in a casenote on Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 23. In this UK case, brought by members of the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, the Court of Appeal held that byelaws prohibiting camping on Ministry of Defence Land adjacent to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston violated the women’s rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association under articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Sandland argues that the case presents the possibility of a ‘peaceful feminine’ subjectivity that is not disempowering for women.
Read the debate for yourself…and let us know your views.
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Volume 17 No.1, published April 2009, Guest Editor Dermot Feenan
Editorial Introduction by Dermot Feenan, and five new essays on women and judging:
Erika Rackley, ‘Detailing Judicial Difference’.
Beverley Baines, ‘Contextualism, Feminism and a Canadian Women Judge’, on Justice Bertha Wilson.
Elaine Martin, ‘US Women Federal Court Judges Appointed by President Carter’, including previously unpublished interview material with Carter-appointed women judges.
Haesook Kim, ‘The Avalanche Perspective: Women Jurists in Korea 1952-2008′.
Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack, ‘Gender, Judging and Job Satisfaction’, from their Australian Magistrates Project.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Emily Grabham on Wendy Brown’s Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire.
Marie Fox on Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (eds), Queering the Non/Human.
Katie Cruz on Vanessa E. Munro and Marina Della Giusta (eds), Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution.
Jon Binnie on Brenda Cossman’s Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging.
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