Essays about: "and Feminist socio-legal theory"

Found 5 essays containing the words and Feminist socio-legal theory.

1. 1. A Knight(mare) in Shining Armour: A Foucauldian-Feminist Analysis of Sexsomnia Defence in Swedish Courts

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Elin Persmo; [2022]
   Keywords : Sexsomnia; Sexual behaviour during sleep; Foucault; Swedish court system; Sexual violence; Medico-legal field; and Feminist socio-legal theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In recent years, several men in Sweden have been acquitted of different sexual offences because the courts deemed that it could have occurred in their sleep. According to a leading expert, several of the Swedish acquitting cases are based on incorrect or irrelevant arguments and reasoning regarding sexsomnia. READ MORE

3. 2. Hysterical Bodies: A socio-legal and feminist policy analysis of gender bias in the treatment of cardiovascular disease in the US, UK, and Canada

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Lena Fonteyne; [2022]
   Keywords : Gender Bias; Cardiovascular Disease; Feminism; Ableism; Power; Hysteria; Human Rights; United States; United Kingdom; Canada; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is an exploration of gender bias in the treatment of chronic illnesses by analysing the relationship between gender, feminism, and ableism in regard to power relations within a human rights healthcare-focused framework. Through a combination of feminist theory and critical disability theory, this thesis aims to answer how gendered cycles of inequality are perpetuated within healthcare systems specifically in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. READ MORE

4. 3. "Inscrire la vulnérabilité au centre du pacte politique” : Towards a radical feminist reconceptualization of vulnerability through the critical juxtaposition of Judith Butler’s poststructuralist ethico-political theory and Martha Fineman’s legal philosophy

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

   Author : Ariadni Polychroniou (Polichroniou); [2022]
   Keywords : Vulnerability; Dependency; Resilience; Precarity; Feminist Philosophy; Judith Butler; Martha Fineman; Responsive State; Performative Resistance;

   Abstract : This Master Thesis focuses on the theoretical reconstruction of a positive feminist conceptualization of vulnerability via the thorough systematization and critical comparison of Martha Fineman’s socio-legal philosophy and Judith Butler’s poststructuralist ethico-political theory. In the introductory remarks, the reader becomes familiar with the turbulent receptions and numerous interdisciplinary re-artications of the term vulnerability within the realms of contemporary feminist theory. READ MORE

5. 4. The War on the Womb: A socio-legal analysis of women’s bodies as battlegrounds for biopolitical control and regulation by the Trump Administration

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Lena Fonteyne; [2020]
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   Abstract : This thesis explores how reproductive rights regulations in the U.S. by the Trump administration perpetuate the biopolitical control of women’s bodies. READ MORE

6. 5. An ethnographic study of domestic violence and divorce in Uzbekistan: what is more important, to be free or to be alive?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Kerstin Martinez; [2017]
   Keywords : divorce; domestic violence; dominance theory; equality; ethnography; gender equality; hybrid society; legal culture; legal feminist theory; living law; mahalla; Uzbekistan; violence against women; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this paper has been to provide a socio-legal analysis of domestic violence and divorce in secular Uzbekistan. The legislation express that men and women are equal to the law, that any kind of discrimination is forbidden and judicial divorce is possible. READ MORE