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While in the past family life was characterised as a "haven from the harsh realities of life", it is now recognised as a site of vulnerabilities and a place where care work can go unacknowledged and be a source of social and economic hardship. Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law addresses the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
The Subject of Prostitution offers a distinctive analysis of the links between prostitution and social theory in order to advance a critical analysis of the relationship of law to sex/work. Using the lens of social theory to disrupt fixed meanings the book provides an advanced analytical framework...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
This book explores the development and meaning of a right to personal identity which now exists in human rights law. The book questions how a person’s personal identity is reflected in human rights law, and what exactly this personal identity is which is accorded legal protection under human rights...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
The issue of gender has had a large influence on the development of international refugee law over the last few decades, most notably with the Gender Guidelines issued in 2002 by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. This volume assesses the progress toward equality for women in refugee...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Contemporary Issues in Public Policy
Reviewing recent healthcare policy in the NHS, this book firmly locates the NHS in the context of the welfare state. Setting health policy in both an historical and modern context (post-1997) Carrier and Kendall weigh up the successes and failures of the National Health Service in the United...
To Be Published December 2nd 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
International Perspectives on Child Victimisation offers a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the abuse and victimization of children. Highlighting key areas of global concern, and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments, Julia...
To Be Published December 12th 2013 by Routledge
Mediating Human Rights addresses how the relationship between security and civil liberties has been shaped by the media. Human rights have never been as ubiquitous as in the aftermath of the events of 9/11, when the security agenda rose to prominence and created significant tensions between...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Anarchy in the System: Law and Power in a Global World critically engages the belief that the state and law can bring about peaceful order. Globalisation itself puts into question this belief, as it reveals the inability of these essentially modern mechanisms to address contemporary conditions of...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Birkbeck Law Press
Series: Transitional Justice
Truth, Denial and Transition addresses the ways in which the process of truth recovery in post-conflict societies is challenged and contested. Transitional justice scholarship and praxis has been a site of ever increasing activity in the past two decades and truth recovery is now considered an...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Sex and sexuality, and the dangers associated with them, provoke contradictory and ambivalent reactions including fascination, fear, revulsion and excitement. Such ambivalences are well-known stimulants of both creative and juridical activity, which in different ways respond to the problems of...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
