The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

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To what extent is the legal subject gendered? Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions and thematically organised chapters, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of this question. With a systematic, accessible approach, it argues that law and gender work to co-produce the legal subject. Cumulatively, the volume's chapters provide a systematic evaluation of the key facets of the legal subject: the corporeal, the functional and the communal. Exploring aspects of the legal subject from the ways in which it is sexed and sexualised to its national and familial dimensions, this volume develops a complete account of the various processes through which legal orders produce gendered subjects. Across its chapters, each theoretically ambitious in its own right, this volume outlines how the law not only acts on the social world, but genders it.

Stephanie Hennette Vauchez is Professor of Public Law at the Universite Paris Nanterre, Director of the CREDOF (Centre d'etudes et de recherches sur les droits fondamentaux) and senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. Her research focuses on conceptual issues of equality and human rights law. She is the author and co-editor of numerous publications. Her most recent publications include How to Democratize Europe (2019) and Droits de l'homme et libertes fondamentales (2022). Ruth Rubio-Marin is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sevilla, Adjunct Professor at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute, Florence, and Director of the UNIA UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Interculturalism. Her research focuses on comparative constitutionalism, law and gender, immigration and citizenship, as well as transitional justice. Her most recent publications include Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis (2018), Women as Constitution Makers: Case Studies from the New Democratic Era (2019) and Global Gender Constitutionalism and Womens Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion (2022).