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O wanted: dead or alive! : the right to have a dead partner's child
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1997
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Biggs, Hazel
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- voortplanting, media, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- The legal case focused on the storage and use of semen without the written consent of the donor while the media coverage concentrated on the sad plight of this devoted widow, whose profound wish was to become the mother of her dead husband's child and fulfil the purpose of their marriage. It is the tensions between these divergent approaches to the case and their impact upon the eventual outcome which is the focus of this case note.
the Elizabethan response to recusancy by married Catholic women, 1559–1586
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- Feminist Legal Studies
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- 2007
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Peddle, Karen S.
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- strafrecht, huwelijken, gehuwde vrouwen, rooms-katholicisme, vroegmoderne periode, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 16e eeuw
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- This study argues how respect for the standards of coverture, patriarchy and marital obligations incorporated in the use of the recognizance provided a highly effective and legal means to penalise and correct both recusant wives and their husbands.
approaches to 'honour crimes' in the UK
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2008
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Reddy, Rupa
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- eerwraak, cultuur, allochtonen, rechtspraak, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- This article examines the debate on whether to analyse ‘honour crimes’ as gender-based violence or as cultural tradition, and the effects of either stance on protection from and prevention of these crimes.
the constructions of woman in English abortion law
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1993
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Sheldon, Sally
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- abortussen, wetgeving, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- Dit artikel geeft een beeld van het rechtssubject als een denkbeeld van bepaald recht, en als belichaming van bepaalde kenmerken. Er wordt niet ingegaan op de morele discussies rond abortuswetgeving, maar deconstrueert de Abortuswet van 1967 teneinde het gecreeerde vrouwelijke rechtssubject bloot te leggen.
the housing association, the judges, the tenant and his lover : Fitzpatrick v. Sterling Housing Association [1997] 4 All E.R. 991: [1998] 1 F.L.R. 6 (C.A.): [1999] 4 All E.R. 705 (H.L.)
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2000
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Sandland, R.
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- This note analyses the decision of the House of Lords in Fitzpatrick, which held that gay partners could fall within the legal definition of 'family' for some purposes. The note argues that despite the real (if overstated) benefits that this case bestows on gay partners in the form of legal rights, under analysis, the decision self-deconstructs to reveal that it is grounded on the principle of discrimination on the basis of sexuality. However, it is also suggested that the encounter between discursive legal reasoning (underpinned by normative heterosexuality), and a version of the family which is 'other' to this discourse, is one which leaves its mark on law, as the potential undermining or deconstruction of law's normative assumptions. The note further argues that although this decision is properly seen as a moment in the struggle for gay rights, it also serves as a reminder that the fortunes of critical theories and political movements that seek to challenge the legal paradigm of the white, heterosexual male are inextricably linked. Fitzpatrick, whatever else it is, is also an object lesson in the debt that current campaigns for gay legal rights owe to feminist critiques of, and campaigns that have successfully challenged, the role of this norm in legal discourse.
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- Feminist Legal Studies
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- 2001
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Burton, M.
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- geweld, huiselijk geweld, strafrecht, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- This case note considers the availability in the U.K. of the provocation defence in cases of intimate homicide in the context of the recent House of Lords decision in R v. Smith [2000] 3 W.L.R. 654. The note argues that the expansion of the objective component of the defence to encompass the mental infirmities of individual defendants is dangerous for women. Although it has the potential to help some abused women who kill to use the defence, it has, at the same time, exposed women who are abused by sexually possessive, violent men to even greater danger. It is thus argued that the defence should be restricted in the way envisaged by the minority judgement of Lord Millett so that abused women will still be able to use the defence, but by a non-medical route. Alternatively, the defence should be abolished and defences which pose no risk of encompassing violent men should be developed to accommodate abused women.
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Easton, Susan M.
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- This paper examines the utility of the offence of incitement to racial hatred as a possible model for the regulation of pornography. The experience of enforcing this offence provides a means of testing the effectiveness of this form of legislation. The current law is outlined and problems with it are considered. This is followed by a critical review of the major objections to enacting a similar sexual hatred offence, including its ineffectiveness and inherent undesirability and problems with the comparison of racial and sexual hatred.
three nullity suits
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1998
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Williams, M.
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- huwelijken, echtscheidingen, geschiedenis, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- This article explores three Victorian actions claiming nullity of marriage. The three share a common theme in that all were cases of husbands pleading nullity on the ground of insanity in their respective wives, so vitiating the ability to consent. Yet the cases yield some evidence of alternative explanations of each woman's behaviour - the respective metanarratives of enforced modesty, autonomy denied, and prohibited love - which disrupt the dominant master-narrative of organic insanity embraced by the medical profession. The realisation that nervous or unbalanced mental states can be 'reactive' - a response to social or environmental conditions - rather than organic, was (as Elaine Showalter, in The Female Malady demonstrates) prompted by the overwhelming numbers of men returning from the Front during the First World War with 'shellshock'. Clearly, the social conditions of marriage in Victorian England were less susceptible to identification as the cause of a reactive condition, since they were embedded within the normative ideological structures of society. Nevertheless, the three cases provide evidence of the complex interaction between two such structures - medicine and law - in sustaining this normativity. ( Ontoerekeningsvatbaar )
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- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Conaghan, Joanne
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- Millns, Susan
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- Samuels, Harriet
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- [et al.]
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- Weait, Matthew
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- mensenrechten, wetgeving, feminisme, rechtspraak, transseksualiteit, identiteit, strafrecht, aids, seksualiteit, geweld, privacy, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Canada
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- This issue situates the theme within the context of feminist engagement with rights discourse. It contains: Feminist Activism, Third Party Interventions and the Courts: Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004: 'Gender is No Substitute for Sex': A Comparative Human Rights Analysis of the Legal Regulation of Sexual Identity: Harm, Consent and the Limits of Privacy.
parental responsibility and involvement in education and lone mother families in the UK
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1999
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Standing, Kay
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- eenoudergezinnen, ouderlijke macht, moederschap, alleenstaanden, vaderschap, onderwijs, ouderschap, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- Research into lone mothers' involvement in their children's schooling to consider the impact of the legal definition of parental responsibility on lone mother families in term of the reassertion of fathers' rights.