Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Featured Items

Across the planet laws work for and against gender equity.

Gender-Sensitive Norm Interpretation by Regional Human Rights Law Systems

Author

Maria Sjöholm

Description

Covers Africa, Europe, and members of the Organization of American States.

Year

2018

Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform

Author

Libby Adler

Description

Examines progress toward equality, ways to better address the needs of the most vulnerable, and methods to redistribute resources.

Year

2018

Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape, and Consent

Author

Eithne Dowds

Description

Focuses on the definition of rape according to the International Criminal Court and how a revised definition could be applied to laws in the United Kingdom.

Year

2019

Women and Equality in Iran: Law, Society, and Activism

Author

Leila Alikarami

Description

Focuses on the period since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Year

2019

Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets, and Offenders

Editor

Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko

Description

Examines the effects of adult, immigration, and juvenile systems on this understudied population.

Year

2021

Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods

Author

Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman

Description

Examines intersections of menstruation and the law—access, accommodation, capitalism, costs, discrimination, equity—and ways to reform laws and society to be more inclusive and just.

Year

2022

Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective

Editor

Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin

Description

Includes case studies of China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mali, Pakistan, and South Africa.

Year

2022

On Transits and Transitions: Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law

Author

Tristan Josephson

Description

Focuses on asylum law, immigration detention policies, immigration law, and marriage law.

Year

2023

Trapped in a Religious Marriage: A Human Rights Perspective on the Phenomenon of Marital Captivity

Author

Benedicta Deogratias

Description

Based on research collected for the project Marital Captivity: Bridging the Gap between Religion and Law. Focuses on marriage constraints in Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim communities and examines public policies that could be enacted to enforce human rights.

Year

2020

Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

Author

Sandra Patton-Imani

Description

Based on interviews with more than 100 African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, and white lesbian mothers between 2004 and 2010.

Year

2020