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Feminist perspectives on tort law / edited by Janice Richardson and Erika Rackley.

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Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law. Ten original essays written by feminist legal scholars from the UK, US, Canada and Australia encompass a range of ways of thinking about women, tort law and feminism. The collection provides a fresh an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Richardson, Janice, 1961-, Rackley, Erika
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Feminist perspectives series.
Subjects:
Torts > Great Britain.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain.
Torts.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Janice Richardson and Erika Rackley
  • Duty of care and ethic of care: irreconcilable difference? / Jenny Steele
  • Endgame: on negligence and reparation for harm / Nicky Priaulx
  • Pollution and the body boundary: exploring scale, gender and remedy / Dayna Nadine Scott
  • Trust in the police? police negligence, invisible immunity and disadvantaged claimants / Kirsty Horsey
  • Knowledge and power in drug testing and promotion: the adverse effects on women's health / Patricia Peppin
  • The standard of care in medical negligence: still reasonably troublesome? / José Miola
  • If i cannot have her everybody can: sexual disclosure and privacy law / Janice Richardson
  • Tort claims for rape: more trials, fewer tribulations? / Nikki Godden
  • Sexual wrongdoing: do the remedies reflect the wrong? / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey
  • Damaging stereotypes: the return of "Hoovering as a hobby" / Reg Graycar.

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