Gender Justice and the Law: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities)

Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning. It asks how notions of "justice" shape gender identity and whether the legal justice system itself privileges notions of gender or is itself gendered. Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice essays contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction. Given its theme, the collection's essays examine theoretical practices of intersectional identity at the nexus of "gender and justice" that might also relate to issues of sexuality, race, class, age, and ability. Dedication 6 Contents 8 Introduction viiElaine Wood 10 I: Praxis and Policy 22 1 Constructing Criminality: R. v. Gladue, Intersectionality, and the Criminalization of Indigenous Women • Arunita Das 24 2 Losing Custodial Mothers in Child Support Reform • Laura Lane-Steele 48 3 Justice, Gender, and Caste: A Case for Dalit Feminist Testimonio • Lissa Lincoln 70 4 Dehumanization “Because of Sex”: The Multiaxial Approach to the Title VII Rights of Sexual Minorities • Shirley Lin 88 II: Policing Bodies 114 5 Divorce Ruling without Consent: Gender, Penal Law, and the Faminized Body in Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You • Christin M. Mulligan 116 6 Gender and Justice in International Human Rights Law: The Need for an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights • Rebecca Smyth 138 7 “Like Cats and Dogs in the Streets”: Disability and Sexuality in the Eugenic Legal Imagination • Lisa Beckmann 166 8 Victims of State Violence: Indigenous and Women-of-Color Sex Workers’ Interactions with Law Enforcement in Canada • Menaka Raguparan 188 III: Activist Politics of Resistance 210 9 Intersections of Gender and (In)Justice: Bibi Titi Mohamed and Women’s Struggles during and after Independence in Tanzania • Catherine Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch 212 10 Policing and Place-Making: Trans* Persecution and Resilience • Ava Ladner 240 11 Becoming Theodore: Spatial Legal Consciousness and Transgender Name Changes • Theodore Davenport 264 12 The Model Speaks?: Obscenity Laws in the United States • John Felipe Acevedo 280 Index 302 About the Editor 304 About the Contributors 306 "[This book] presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning. It asks how notions of 'justice' shape gender identity and whether the legal justice system itself privileges notions of gender or is itself gendered. Shaped by politics and policy, these essays contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction. Given its theme, the collection's essays examine theoretical practices of intersectional identity at the nexus of 'gender and justice' that might also relate to issues of sexuality, race, class, age, and ability"-- Provided by the publisher "Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction"--