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Copyright: © Susan Atkins 1984

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/918.9781911507123

Number of pages: 284

Publication date: 30 September 2018

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Women and the Law

Susan Atkins (Author), Baroness Brenda Hale (Author)

Series: OBserving Law

Published in association with: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Women And The Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. Originally published in 1984, this seminal text is one that truly deserves its ‘groundbreaking’ moniker. Predating many key moments in contemporary feminist history, it was written before Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble; before Naomi Klein’s The Beauty Myth, with the term ‘feminist jurisprudence’ having only been coined three years earlier. It went on to inspire a legion of women lawyers and feminist legal rulings, from the Family Law Act 1996 to the legal definition of ‘violence’ (Yemshaw v. LB Hounslow 2011). This 2018 edition comes with a new foreword by Susan Atkins and provides a timely analysis of women in law forty years on, how much has changed and the work still left to do.

A note on the 2018 edition 2018 foreword Preface

Introduction Women in society 1 The historical legacy 2 Equality at work 3 Beyond equality of opportunity

The private domain 4 Sexuality 5 Motherhood 6 Breadwinners and homemakers: partners or dependants? 7 Power and violence in the home 8 The case against marriage?

The state and women’s rights 9 The welfare state: social security and taxation 10 Women as citizens Index

PDF: 9781911507123

EPUB: 9781911507116

Paperback: 9781911507109 / 284 pages / 234mm x 156mm

Susan Atkins (Author)

Dr Susan Atkins graduated from Birmingham University with an LLB in 1973, a Master’s degree in Criminology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and trained as a solicitor in local government. She was a law academic for 12 years, specialising in anti-discrimination law. She joined the civil service in 1989. Her posts included Deputy Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Departmental Equal Opportunities Officer for the Home Office and Director of the Women and Equality Unit in the Cabinet Office. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Southampton University. In 2003 Susan was appointed the first Chief Executive of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. She was the first independent Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces from 2007–2015. Susan is an experienced non-executive director and holds a number of advisory positions, including membership of Independent Advisory Boards for the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics. Susan Atkins became a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to Armed Service Personnel.

Baroness Brenda Hale (Author)

Brenda Hoggett, now Baroness Hale of Richmond and President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, became a High Court Judge in 1994, having taught law at the University of Manchester for 18 years and promoted reform of the law at the Law Commission for over nine. In 1999 she was appointed to the Court of Appeal and in 2004 to the appellate committee of the House of Lords, then highest court for the United Kingdom. This became the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2009. She was appointed Deputy President in 2013 and its first female President in 2017. She is also President of the United Kingdom Association of Women Judges and a past President of the International Association of Women Judges. She was Treasurer of Gray’s Inn in 2017 and is Master of the Company of Fellmongers of Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Subject: Law

BISAC codes: LAW038000, LAW043000, SOC032000

Thema codes: JBSF1, LAQG, NHTB

Keywords: freedom, gender politics, gender studies, protections, women's rights

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