Subjects:  1. Gender & the Law    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Women's Studies - General    5. Criminal law    6. Jurisprudence & philosophy of law    7. Law / Gender & the Law   

Subjects:  1. Feminism & Feminist Theory    2. Gender & the Law    3. Law    4. Legal status, laws, etc    5. Legal status, laws, etc.    6. Media Studies    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Sex and law    9. Sociology    10. United States    11. Women    12. Women in mass media    13. Women's Studies - General    14. Feminism    15. Law / Media & the Law    16. Law | Intellectual Property & Media Law   

Subjects:  1. Australia    2. Feminism    3. Feminism & Feminist Theory    4. Feminist jurisprudence    5. Gender & the Law    6. Law    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Philosophy Of Law    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Sociology    12. Women    13. Jurisprudence & philosophy of law    14. Law / Gender & the Law    15. Law | Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy    16. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    17. Women's studies   

Subjects:  1. Feminism & Feminist Theory    2. Feminist jurisprudence    3. Gender & the Law    4. General    5. Jurisprudence    6. Law    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Women    13. Feminism    14. Foundations of law    15. Gender Studies    16. Jurisprudence & philosophy of law    17. Law / Jurisprudence    18. Political Philosophy    19. Political Science and International Relations    20. Political science & theory    21. USA   

Reviews (4)

Information for Victims and the Workplace
This book tells how to confront the harasser. If the harassment continues, the legal steps are covered.For an employer, it provides information on policies, complaint procedures, training sessions and monitoring to prevent harassment.
Good Resource
I found the book to be pretty straightforward and easy to read. It gives all the pertinent information on the subject from the law to how to stop sexual harassment to your legal remedies. One of the best features is that provides an array of case studies that clear up a lot of the gray areas. I used the book to help me develop a training on the subject, I recommend it to anyone who needs more info on the subject.

An Excellent Resource
As an employment attorney and human resource consultant who trains organizations on harassment policy, I use this book as a great reference material. I often suggest it to supervisors who want to know more about how to deal with this complex and difficult problem.... ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business Law    3. Business/Economics    4. Civil Procedure    5. Gender & the Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Offenses Against Women    9. Popular works    10. Practical Guides    11. Sex Discrimination In Employment    12. Sexual harassment of women    13. United States    14. Industrial relations   

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An okay update, a little more legal now.....
Books for law students get updated at least every five years or so.This book is an update of his first book, this time including "Romer v. Evans" and the St. Patrick's Day cases.When the first edition came out, it was revolutionary.Now, Eskridge, Hunter and many others have published gay legal texts.This new edition still has classic non-legal writings from gay studies.So it's still not just a legal text, but an anthology.It has useful facts in it.Basically, I'm not blown away by this book, but it would be a good thing for gays, both inside and out of the law, to own. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Civil Procedure    3. Gay rights    4. Gender & the Law    5. Homosexuality    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. United States    10. Gender studies    11. Social law   

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Big sham
It's strange, as I was reading this book, things didn't sit well with me. Too many things didn't jive, there were too many contradictions and it seemed weird that she'd give so many details about her life in Jordan- the type of salon, the neighborhood, the names, etc. because it would give away who she was, the family of the Catholic man that supposedly was dating her Muslim friend. And her family and the other family would be upset with her mom for allowing her to call and warn the boyfriend, etc. Plus, the whole concept of their families being OK with the "unisex" salon, but then being so strict didn't make any sense. She also said all her and her parents had planned for them was marriage, but then that she and her friend purposely tried to get bad grades so they wouldn't have to attend college. Huh?
Stunned and Duped
Honor Lost is a well-written and very readable book but it's power lies in the story told.I have often looked at Muslim women and wondered "how can they put up with the way they are treated" and after reading Honor Lost I am realizing that it's a lot like looking at the Jews in the holocaust and wondering the same thing."Why didn't they go down fighting?How could they just take it like that?" There really aren't any easy answers to those kinds of questions, but Norma Khouri does explain how completely dominated these women are and how the men who should love and cherish them treat them like slaves and possessions.
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Subjects:  1. Gender & the Law    2. Murder - General    3. Offenses Against Women    4. Social Science    5. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction    6. Women In Islam    7. Women's Studies - General   

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Exciting drama about fight for equality in Corporate America
The Bellwomen is a must read for anyone interested in understanding what it was like to be a working woman in the early 1970's. Not a dry history. Ms. Stockford is very skilled in telling this as a compelling, suspenseful story. This book is a fascinating but little known chronicle of the EEOC's suit against AT&T, and Ms. Stockford's comprehensive research is skillfully used to create an exciting drama. She brings to life the characters involved in the legal process. She intersperses sketches of three women who worked for AT&T which only add to this movie-like tale. You won't be able to put this book down.
surprisingly good read
This isn't the kind of book I'd normally pick up, but once I started reading I was completely absorbed. The writing is clear and compelling; the characters engaging; and the potentially dry material is presented in a way that makes it fresh and relevant. Ms. Stockford has managed to wrap a complex event into a suspenseful work of non-fiction--quite an accomplishment. Highly recommended.

Fine writing
Bellwomen presents readers with an evenhanded account of the complex legal battle leading up to the landmark AT&T settlement of 1973.Stockford's extraordinary research combines with details she discerns from countless interviews to offer a gripping presentation of the facts in a text reminiscent of A Civil Action.The lucid voice in the writing proves especially effective as the author weaves descriptions of the participants' personalities and private lives between scenes of courtroom contests.The reader comes to appreciate the humanity of the subjects as they reflect on both the mistakes and accomplishments which ultimately leads AT&T and numerous other corporations to recruit and hire women and minorities. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American Telephone and Telegra    2. American Telephone and Telegraph Company    3. Business & Financial    4. Discrimination    5. Gender & the Law    6. Labor & Employment    7. Law    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Sex discrimination against wom    11. Sex discrimination against women    12. Sex discrimination in employment    13. Trials, litigation, etc    14. United States    15. Employment & labour law    16. Sex discrimination    17. Social law    18. USA   

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Not The Wistful, Lovesick Kind..
I was missing someone special verymuch when I ordered thismarathon of poetry bywomen, quite sure I would find within its 556 pages the dulcet tones and winnowing words of love poems to feed my soul!Read more

Subjects:  1. 18th century    2. Anthologies (multiple authors)    3. Collections    4. English poetry    5. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    6. Gender & the Law    7. Law    8. Literary Criticism    9. Literature - Classics / Criticism    10. Women authors    11. Women's Studies - General    12. English    13. Literature/English | British Literature | 18th C    14. Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)    15. Poetry anthologies: 16th to 18th centuries    16. Women's studies    17. c 1700 to c 1800   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Gay rights    3. Gays    4. Gender & the Law    5. General    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Political Science    10. Politics/International Relations    11. United States    12. Jurisprudence & General Issues    13. Political Science / General   

Subjects:  1. Gender & the Law    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Legal status, laws, etc.    5. Pakistan    6. Sex discrimination against women    7. Social conditions    8. Women    9. Law / Gender & the Law    10. Law | Law & Society    11. Private, property, family law    12. Social law    13. Women's studies   

Subjects:  1. Forensic orations    2. Gender & the Law    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal Writing    6. Legal composition    7. United States   

Subjects:  1. Civil Rights    2. Constitutional    3. Gay Studies    4. Gay rights    5. Gays    6. Gender & the Law    7. Law    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal status, laws, etc.    10. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    11. United States    12. Civil rights & citizenship    13. Constitutional & administrative law    14. Gay & Lesbian studies    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional Law    2. Dictionaries    3. Dictionaries - General    4. Discrimination    5. Gay Studies    6. Gays    7. Gender & the Law    8. Homosexuality    9. Law    10. Law / Reference    11. Law and legislation    12. Legal Reference / Law Profession    13. Legal status, laws, etc    14. Legal status, laws, etc.    15. Practical Guides    16. Reference    17. United States    18. Gay & Lesbian studies    19. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    20. USA   

Subjects:  1. Gender & the Law    2. Law   

Subjects:  1. Gender & the Law    2. History    3. History - U.S.    4. History: American    5. Illinois    6. Law (Specific Aspects)    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Sociology Of Women    10. United States - 19th Century    11. United States - State & Local - Midwest    12. Women    13. Women's Studies - General    14. Women's Studies - History    15. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects    16. Social law    17. USA    18. Women's studies    19. World history: c 1750 to c 1900   

Editorial Review

Ruthann Robson's canny, well-written essays on lesbian legal theory and pedagogy, rooted in her experience as a lesbian professor at a progressive law school, offer a sparkling application of poststructural analysis, queer theory, and cautious, common-sense feminism to a wide range of legal problems and possibilities. She begins by imagining Sappho as a modern-day law student, with the hope of uncovering Sapphic rather than Socratic methodologies in legal theory: "How could [invoking Sappho] change the ways in which we understand, practice, and apply law? What if we adopted the Sapphic lyric as a mode of communication and understanding rather than Socratic argumentation?"Read more

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A unique look at lesbians in the law
Robson is an openly lesbian, politically progressive law professor.(In later articles, she has come out as a cancer victim as well.)This is a collection of her essays on lesbians, homosexuality and the law.This book has a great introduction.Robson is a complex thinker, so do not assume this book will just say, "Aren't lesbian lawyers cool!?"Robson's analysis of legal issues can be overly pessimistic at times:as if one domestic partner law or pro-gay legal decision can be criticized for not removing all oppressions throughout the world!Still, this was an interesting read.It differs from many gay legal texts. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Civil Law    3. Feminist jurisprudence    4. Gender & the Law    5. General    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Legal status, laws, etc    9. Legal status, laws, etc.    10. Lesbian Studies    11. Lesbians    12. United States    13. Literary Criticism & Collections / Gay & Lesbian   

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No More Harper Lee
Frankly, I'm flabbergasted by the shallow and inaccurate reviews of this book that have appeared on this site.Dorr does not excuse all black men accused of raping white women.Nor does she commit the "Harper Lee Fallacy."Lee's novel popularized the notion that all black men in the South lived, constantly, under the shadow of lynching.If they even looked at a white woman, they were doomed.While this fear was a cultural truism that held great power in the black community, it simply was not an accurate representation of reality--not every case, every time, (although it did, tragically, occur all too often).But we'veknown that since Ida B. Wells proved that less than 1/3 of lynchings resulted from charges of rape.
A traditional text lacking the full story
This all to typical account makes the base argument that every single trial between 1900-and 1960 in which a black man was accused of raping a white women was a sham. Full of clich�s such as `white mobs' and `lynchings' which were actually the exception and not the rule this book argues that because white men dared to say they were defending `white womanhood' that therefore they were enacting white patriarchy and suppressing blacks who they felt were `inferior'.This argument goes on to further show that the `white patriarchy' tried to enforce a feeling of conflict between civilization and barbarism thereby enflaming racist passions.Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    3. Gender & the Law    4. General    5. History    6. Race relations    7. Rape    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. True Crime / Espionage    11. Virginia    12. Women's Studies - General    13. African-American/African Studies; History/United States: Southern; Law & Legal History; Women's Studies/Gender Studies; Sociology/Social Issues    14. Black studies    15. Sexual abuse    16. Social Science / Women's Studies   

Subjects:  1. Crimes against    2. Criminology    3. Ethics & Moral Philosophy    4. Family violence    5. Gender & the Law    6. Gender Studies    7. General    8. Philosophy    9. Sexual abuse victims    10. Sexual harassment of women    11. Social Science    12. Sociology    13. Women    14. Violence in society    15. Western philosophy    16. Women's studies   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. 20th century    3. Gender & the Law    4. Government policy    5. History    6. Legal status, laws, etc    7. Legal status, laws, etc.    8. Public Policy - General    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Women    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Demonstrations & protest movements    14. Feminism    15. Social Science / Sociology / General    16. Social history    17. c 1800 to c 1900