Special Issue "Legally Constructed Gendered Identities"
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X). This special issue belongs to the section "Law and Gender Issues".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2013) | Viewed by 104208
Special Issue Editor
Interests: gender; sexuality and the law; family law; religion and the law
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Laws is devoted to an exploration of how the gendered body comes to exist in the legal world. For much of the time, legal culture and rhetoric assumes that law is neutral, objective and impartial and applies equally to every person regardless of gender characteristics. However, Law is not a social practice that is isolated from the rest of culture.
The Special Issue invites contributors to challenge these ideas of neutrality and consider the ways in which the characteristics of gendered identities are not innate or natural, but come into existence by and through the operation of law. These issues will be examined at both domestic and global levels. The legal construction of gendered identities manifests itself in almost every (if not all) facts of legal life, including, but not limited to, the rape cases in India; the issue of same sex marriage in both America and the UK; prosecution of war crimes; body alteration and cosmetic surgery; land ownership and food production.
Each article will focus upon law as an object of study and in so doing will seek to examine how gender and legally constructed gendered identities are understood in law.
The articles will be readable by a broad audience and not limited to a single country or jurisdiction. This Special Issue will be a critical reference point for scholars and the wider community interested in the development of Gender and the Law.
Dr. Sarah Beresford
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Gender
- Law
- Identity
- Sexuality
- Legal Theory