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Gender and Judging

By Ulrike Schultz

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Gender and Judging

By Ulrike Schultz

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Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors from the following countries; Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria and the United States. The contributions draw on various theoretical approaches, including gender, feminist and sociological theories. The book's pressing topicality is underlined by the fact that well into the modern era male opposition to women's admission to, and progress within, the judicial profession has been largely based on the argument that their very gender programmes women to show empathy, partiality and gendered prejudice - in short essential qualities running directly counter to the need for judicial objectivity. It took until the last century for women to begin to break down such seemingly insurmountable barriers. And even now, there are a number of countries where even this first step is still waiting to happen. In all of them, there remains a more or less pronounced glass ceiling to women's judicial careers.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
642
Release Date:
2013-07-10
Publication Date:
2013-07-10
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1841136409
ISBN13:
9781841136400
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1118 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
39 cm
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