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  • Ideologies of Welfare

    From Dreams to Disillusion

    by John Clarke, Allan Cochrane, Carol Smart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The British welfare state has been a political and ideological battleground since its inception, yet many of the voices in the crucial debates have been lost in orthodox histories. First published in 1987, Ideologies of Welfare (now with a new preface by the authors) explores the development of the welfare state through the debates which surrounded it in three key periods—the turn of the century; ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Feminism and the Power of Law

    by Carol Smart ...
    Series series Sociology of Law and Crime
    In this now established text the author presents her analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography, as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Women-in-Law

    Explorations in Law, Family, and Sexuality

    Edited by Julia Brophy, Carol Smart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, Women-in-Law is a collection of essays examining the complex interactions of law, sexuality, and the family. It explores the ways in which legal ideology and practice affect women and looks at issues such as child custody, domestic violence and prostitution in the light of new research. The contributors review the history of feminist involvement with the law and analyse ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Regulating Womanhood

    Edited by Carol Smart ...
    This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the resistance which emerged in response. The collection refutes the notion of women oppressed during the 19th century, unable to act in opposition to the law. When issues of motherhood and women's ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Personal Life

    by Carol Smart ...
    For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the possibility of family life. In this exciting new book, she puts forward a new way of understanding families and relationships.Breaking with conventional ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals)

    Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations

    by Carol Smart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women’s oppression. Based on research of the theory and practice of family law, it examines the way in which private law operates to sustain, reproduce and reinforce the dependence of women in the most private of spheres, namely marriage.The author focuses ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

    A Feminist Critique

    by Carol Smart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as marginal to the ‘proper’ study of crime in society. Carol Smart explores a new direction in criminology, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Judging Social Rights

    by Jeff King ...
    Series Book 3 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Countries that now contemplate constitutional reform often grapple with the question of whether to constitutionalise social rights. This book presents an argument for why, under the right conditions, doing so can be a good way to advance social justice. In making such a case, the author considers the nature of the social minimum, the role of courts among other institutions, the empirical record of ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Indifferent Inclusion

    Aboriginal people and the Australian nation

    by Russell McGregor ...
    McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the perspectives of political, social and cultural history in a coherent narrative, he provides a cogent analysis of how the relationship changed, and the impediments to change. ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Women in Twentieth-Century Britain

    Social, Cultural and Political Change

    by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska ...
    Women's lives have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century: reduced fertility and the removal of formal barriers to their participation in education, work and public life are just some examples. At the same time, women are under-represented in many areas, are paid significantly less than men, continue to experience domestic violence and to bear the larger part of the burden ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Searching for the State in British Legal Thought

    Competing Conceptions of the Public Sphere

    by Janet McLean ...
    Series Book 4 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Janet McLean explores how the common law has personified the state and how those personifications affect and reflect the state's relationship to bureaucracy, sovereignty and civil society, the development of public law norms, the expansion and contraction of the public sphere with nationalization and privatization, state responsibility and human rights. Treating legal thought as a variety of ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Human Rights Controversies

    The Impact of Legal Form

    by Luke McNamara ...
    Many countries confront similar human rights controversies, but, despite the claimed universality of human rights values they are not always resolved in the same way. Why? What role do local legal conditions play? Is human rights discourse more potent where rights are constitutionally entrenched, rather than where there is a tradition of respect for underlying human rights values but no bill of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD