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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Feminist Legal Theory"”.
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Feminist judgments: interrogating Zimbabwean judgments using anti-essentialist feminist legal theory
In 2004, the first feminist judgments project was launched by a group of Canadian lawyers and scholars. This group, calling themselves the Women's Court of Canada, published a series of six rewritten opinions of the Canadian Supreme Court interpreting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms …
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How feminist legal theory can help to safeguard the rights and interests of disadvantaged women and girls during crises: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and South Africa
… disadvantaged women and girls in the country. A feminist lens, in the form of Feminist Legal Theory, is used to elucidate this disproportionate impact. In order to assess and evaluate South Africa's response, this dissertation analyses the obligations that are placed on State parties to ensure …
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Colonialism, Customary Authority, and Constitutionalism: Rethinking Gender, Justice, and Tenure Reform in South Africa through Ubuntu and Intersectionality
… women’s land rights. Situated within a plural legal order, the research examines how these overlapping frameworks sustain ambiguity and hinder substantive equality. Grounded in feminist legal theory, this study conceives law as a gendered and contested social field rather than a neutral …
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Parental alienation: an exploratory study of legal professionals’ views and experiences in Northern Ireland
… been limited research from the perspective of legal practitioners, despite parental alienation typically manifesting itself within contested and difficult divorces and separations.<br/><br/>The study explores the perspectives of legal professionals on the nature and presentation of parental …
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The Impact of Domestic Violence Legal Regulation and Enforcement Among Nigerian Immigrants in Ireland
… about it. The study explored the role of legal regulation and enforcement in tackling domestic violence by investigating how its regulation and enforcement in Ireland impacted on the Nigerian immigrants’ perceptions and attitudes toward it. It queries if both jurisdictions are protecting …
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Human rights treaties in the Pacific: A case study of the non-ratification of CEDAW in Tonga
… the Kakala Research Framework and Grounded Theory. The literature on this subject is scarce; therefore, this approach was best suited as a literature review was of limited use, and theories and explanations arose from the data. The research findings highlighted three thematic barriers to …
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Feminist Theories of Autonomy and their Implications for Rape Law Reform
… chapter one, I discuss Joel Feinberg’s liberal theory of autonomy, which describes an unhindered, self-governing agent, free to pursue his or her own goals. In chapter two, I discuss some feminist responses to liberal theories, and lay out Catharine MacKinnon’s theory of dominance feminism. …
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Feminist Theories of Autonomy and their Implications for Rape Law Reform
… chapter one, I discuss Joel Feinberg’s liberal theory of autonomy, which describes an unhindered, self-governing agent, free to pursue his or her own goals. In chapter two, I discuss some feminist responses to liberal theories, and lay out Catharine MacKinnon’s theory of dominance feminism. …
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Why EU Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Fail in Italy: A Feminist Legal Analysis
… gender equality. This study looks at the work of feminist authors Joan Williams, Arlie Hochschild, and Vicki Schultz to understand why the implementation of the Parental Leave Directive is simply not enough to generate social change in Italy regarding work-family reconciliation. The findings of …