Exploiting the Limits of Law - Åsa Gunnarsson, Eva-Maria Svensson

Exploiting the Limits of Law

Swedish Feminism and the Challenge to Pessimism
Buch | Hardcover
244 Seiten
2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-4935-9 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
This book represents a challenge to both Swedish dogmatism and feminist pessimism and, more generally, to the concept of the limits of law: it includes essays which consider the issue of law's limits in a purely theoretical way, as well as essays which investigate the changing legal and policy environments in a more practical setting.
Moving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as 'legal', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law's subject-matter and formal processes. Through a process of reflection on the limits of law and repeated efforts to redraw them, this book challenges the general sense of pessimism among feminists and others about the usefulness of law as an instrument of change. The work combines theoretical analysis of the law's boundaries with investigation of the practical settings for changing legal and policy environments. Both the empirical focus of this volume, and its underlying theoretical concern with the limits of the law and its gender implications, render it of interest to legal scholars throughout the world, whether of EU law, feminism, social policy or philosophy.

Åsa Gunnarsson is Professor of Tax Law at Umeå University, Sweden. Eva-Maria Svensson is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Göteborg, Sweden, and Professor of Law at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Margaret Davies is Professor of Law at Flinders University, Australia.

Chapter 1 Reflecting the Epistemology of Law – Exploiting Boundaries, ÅsaGunnarsson, Eva-MariaSvensson, MargaretDavies; Chapter 2 Boundary-Work in Legal Scholarship, Eva-MariaSvensson; Chapter 3 An Apparent Boundary Between Law and Politics, ÅsaPersson; Chapter 4 Legal Texts as Discourses, JohannaNiemi-Kiesiläinen, PäiviHonkatukia, MinnaRuuskanen; Chapter 5 Beyond Constructed Boundaries in Criminal Law Discourse, MonicaBurman; Chapter 6 Children Crossing Borders – On Child Perspectives in the Swedish Aliens Act and the Limits of Law, EvaNilsson; Chapter 7 Challenging the Heteronormativity of Law, GörelGranström; Chapter 8 Social Insurance Law – The Core of Swedish Welfare Law, RuthMannelqvist; Chapter 9 Challenging one Fundamental Norm in Labour Law – the Exception of the Employer’s Family and Home, CatharinaCalleman; Chapter 10 Exclusion of Solo Mothers in the Welfare State, LenaWennberg; Chapter 11 Gender Equality and the Diversity of Rights and Obligations in Swedish Social Citizenship, ÅsaGunnarsson; Chapter 12 Notes Towards an Optimistic Feminism, MargaretDavies;

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.5.2007
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7546-4935-0 / 0754649350
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-4935-9 / 9780754649359
Zustand Neuware
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