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The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice

The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice

Paperback

General LawUnited States PoliticsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1032445025
ISBN13: 9781032445021
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern was to create justice for women.

Each chapter contains a short piece of legislation - proposed in order to address a contemporary legal problem from a feminist perspective. These range across criminal law (sexual offences, Indigenous women's experiences of criminal law, laws in relation to forced marriage, modern slavery, childcare and sentencing), civil law (aged care and housing rights, regulating the gig economy; surrogacy, gender equity in the construction industry) and constitutional law (human rights legislation, reimagining parliaments where laws are made for the benefit of women). The proposed laws are, moreover, drafted with feedback from a senior parliamentary draftsperson (providing guidance to contributors in a personal capacity), to ensure conformity with legislative rigour, as well as accompanied by an explanation of their reasons and their aims. Although the legislation is Australian-based, the issues raised by each are recognisably global, and are reflected in the legislation of most other nations.

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