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Privatization, Law and the Challenge to Feminism
No full textPrivatization has caused a large reconfiguration of the relations between the state, the market, and the family in the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, all of which has had a profound effect on the lives of women. This collection of essays address this timely issue by examining eight case studies on the role of law in various arenas such as fiscal and labour market policy, family and immigration law, and laws designed to regulate health services and to prohibit child prostitution.
Starting from the shared assumption that privatization signals a transition from welfare state to neo-liberal state, the authors illustrate the role of law in this process, and its impact on women and on the gender order. In doing so, the contributors lay bare the complex interplay between a globalized political economy, social reproduction and legal regulation, providing an important contribution to feminist political theory and legal theory. Of great relevance to political science and law practitioners scholars and students - especially those interested in the areas of public policy and the state - these essays contribute strongly to debates about gender and will attract a wide feminist audience.https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/1194/thumbnail.jp
A Review of Brenda Cossman\u27s The New Sex Wars
No full textIn The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era, Brenda Cossman unpacks the contemporary debates of the #MeToo movement through the lens of the 1970s and 1980s feminist sex wars. Cossman seeks to deconstruct the binary conversation of the feminist sex wars, both in the past and present. She offers an alternative read of these debates, rooted in anti-carceral feminism and reparative justice. This book is a must read for scholars, activists, and educators alike, as she provides innovative analytical approaches that transform feminist praxis inside and outside the classroom, the academic journal, the courtroom, and the online forum
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The new sex wars ::sexual harm in the #MeToo era /
No full textRevisits the sex wars of the 1970s and '80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era. #MeToo's stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 radically changed--and amplified--conversations about sexual violence as it revealed how widespread the issue is and toppled prominent celebrities and politicians. But, as the movement spread, a conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about how punishment should be doled out and how justice should be served. The New Sex Wars reveals that these clashes are nothing new. Delving into the contentious debates from the '70s and '80s, Brenda Cossman traces the striking echoes in the feminist divisions of this earlier period. In exploring the history of past conflicts--the resistance to finding common ground, the media's pleasure in portraying the debates as polarized cat fights, the simplification of viewpoints as pro- and anti-sex--she shows how they have come to shape the #MeToo era. From the '70s to today, Cossman examines tensions between the need for recognition and protection under the law, and the colossal and ongoing failure of that law to redress historic injustice. By circumventing law altogether, #MeToo has led us to question whether justice can be served outside of the courtroom. Cossman argues for a different way forward--one based on reparative models that focus on shared desired outcomes and the willingness to understand the other side. Thoughtful and compelling, The New Sex Wars explores what can been learned from these stories, what traps we repeatedly fall into, how we have been denied our anger, and where to begin to make law work
Women and Poverty in India: Law and Social Change
No full textIn this article, Brenda Cossman and Ratna Kapur explore the ways in which law is implicated in women's socio-economic inequality and poverty in India. The authors examine several different areas of the law to illustrate the extent to which law is based on and serves to reinforce women's economic dependence. Family law, labour law, and rural development law all serve, although in very different ways, to reinforce assumptions about women's economic dependence in tile family, and in turn, to reinforce the actual socio-economic conditions that produce that economic dependency. In the second part of the paper, Cossman and Kapur examine some of the ways in which attempts to use the law, and particularly, rights discourse, to improve women's socio-economic conditions in India, have been undermined. The authors consider the Indian experience with public interest litigation and its limitations for feminism, as well as the growing challenge of religious fundamentalism to women's struggles for social change in India
The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era, Brenda Cossman [NYU Press, 2021, 280pp, £25.99 (hardback)]
No full textBook Review of The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era, Brenda Cossman [NYU Press, 2021, 280pp, £25.99 (hardback)
An Interview on Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity
No full textIn Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Routledge, 2020), Senthorun Sunil Raj undertakes an expansive, careful, and caring examination of emotion across an array of late 20th, early 21st century “pro-LGBT” cases and legislative reforms. Surveying flashpoints of political and legal contestation for LGBT people, Raj tracks how disgust, hate, anger, fear and love ricochet and shapeshift among litigants, judges, activists and scholars. Such emotions, explain Raj, have been indispensable for advancing the legal recognition of LGBT lives and relationships. At the same time, the “jurisprudential crystallization” of emotion risks devaluing and therefore endangering non-normative genders, sexualities and intimacies. The Enticements editors interviewed Raj about the arguments, methods, and proposals of Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Women and Poverty in India: Law and Social Change
No full textIn this article Brenda Cossman and Ratna Kapur explore the ways in which law is implicated in women\u27s socio-economic inequality and poverty in India. The authors examine several different areas of the law to illustrate the extent to which law is based on and serves to reinforce women\u27s economic dependence. Family law, labour law, and rural development law all serve, although in very different ways, to reinforce assumptions about women\u27s economic dependence in the family, and in turn, to reinforce the actual socio-economic conditions that produce that economic dependency. In the second part of the paper, Cossman and Kapur examine some of the ways in which attempts to use the law, and particularly, rights discourse, to improve women\u27s socio-economic conditions in India, have been undermined. The authors consider the Indian experience with public interest litigation and its limitations for feminism, as well as the growing challenge of religious fundamentalism to women\u27s struggles for social change in India
Women and poverty in India : law and social change
No full textIn this article, Brenda Cossman and Ratna Kapur explore the ways in which law is implicated in women's socio-economic inequality and poverty in India. The authors examine several different areas of the law to illustrate the extent to which law is based on and serves to reinforce women's economic dependence. Family law, labour law, and rural development law all serve, although in very different ways, to reinforce assumptions about women's economic dependence in tile family, and in turn, to reinforce the actual socio-economic conditions that produce that economic dependency. In the second part of the paper, Cossman and Kapur examine some of the ways in which attempts to use the law, and particularly, rights discourse, to improve women's socio-economic conditions in India, have been undermined. The authors consider the Indian experience with public interest litigation and its limitations for feminism, as well as the growing challenge of religious fundamentalism to women's struggles for social change in India
On Women, Equality and the Constitution: Through the Looking Glass of Feminism
No full textThe authors explore the approaches that have been adopted by the Supreme Court and High Courts in constitutional cases on sex discrimination. In turning specifically to the issue of sex discrimination, Kapur and Cossman review three different approaches to gender difference protectionist, sameness and corrective. They argue that the judicial approach to sex discrimination remains overly influenced by the formal understanding of equality, with only a few exceptions adopting a substantive approach to equality. Kapur and Cossman argue that women\u27s equality rights will be best promoted by a substantive approach to equality, that allows for both a sameness and corrective approach to gender difference. (Editor’s abstract.
Censorship and the Arts : Law, Controversy, Debate, Facts
No full textCossman, a Toronto professor of law, presents a history and analysis of censorship in the arts from a legal perspective. Important cases are discussed in detail, an appendix of the particular Canadian laws concerned is included, as well as a chronology prepared by Lawrence of acts of censorship (1911-1995) particularly in Canada and the United States. 31 bibl. ref
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