Books in the Feminist Perspectives series

This text provides an introduction to the concepts, theories and results of environmental sociology from a feminist perspective. It includes coverage of sustainable development and ecofeminism, as well as issues surrounding the relationship between environment and society.

Feminist Perspectives on Language provides an accessible introduction to this complex area which redresses the balance of current feminist texts which tend to concentrate on discourse analysis and fail to emphasise the connections with feminist thought in other disciplines, such as sociology and politics.

This work aims to provide a synthesis of theory, relating to the fields of disability studies and feminism. Theory is combined with practice via case study examples.

Feminist Perspectives on the Body bridges the gap between the exisiting high level, theoretical texts which have helped to develop this extremely popular new area and the growing number of students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining a basic understanding of the key issues and topics involved.

Feminist Perspectives on Ethics is a unique guide to the development of feminist thought on ethics and moral agency and applies these ideas to a number of topics which are relevant to women's lives from the everyday, such as the family, friendship and sexuality to the more controversial, such as abortion, pornography and ecofeminism.

This book addresses a key topic which is of considerable contemporary relevance with the feminising of the political scene under the latest Labour Government.

The Feminist Perspectives Series seeks to provide concise, accessible and engaging introductions to key feminist topics and debates. This text examines how sociology has been transformed under the influence of feminism.

This edited collection questions the assumptions about feminist perspectives on contract law made in mainstream textbooks and the ideologies that underpin them, drawing attention to the ways in which the law of contract has facilitated the virtual exclusion of women, the feminine and the private sphere from legal discourse.

Uses the failure of women to fit within male models of both law and theory as a way to rethink legal questions, including the meaning of equality, freedom, justice and citizenship. This collection of essays on feminist theory includes concern about the way in which queer theory, and critical race theory intersect with feminist theory.

Although a critical approach can be glimpsed in journal articles and student texts, this collection of essays draws together both feminist and critical material. It is written by feminists and deals with equity and trusts as a whole.

Criminal law has traditionally been taught and analysed as if criminal law doctrine has no connection with questions of criminalisation, crime detection, all of which are affected by gender. This book seeks to fill these gaps by looking at the areas in which gender affects the way that suspected criminals and their victims are treated.

A collection of interdisciplinary socio-legal essays, which explore the relationship between childhood, gender and the law. Drawing on a range of feminist and critical theories and research, these original essays challenge the gender neutrality of law; and explore the shifting constructions of childhood by law, legal practice and popular culture.

Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that the whole working environment needs to be examined. This text presents a discussion of traditional and less obvious aspects of employment.

Examines the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective. This book provides an analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging from land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world.

Examining the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, this book provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging from land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world.

Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. It explores issues of legal and political preoccupation, such as civil partnerships, home-sharing, reproductive technologies and new initiatives in regulating family practices through criminal law.

Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. It takes the view that family law cannot be defined in a traditional way. It explores issues of legal and political preoccupation such as civil partnerships, home-sharing, reproductive technologies, and more.

The law of contract is ripe for feminist analysis. Despite increasing calls for the re-conceptualisation of neo-classical ways of thinking. feminist perspectives on contract tend to be marginalised in mainstream textbooks. This edited collection questions the assumptions made in such works and the ideologies that underpin them.