Responsible Selves (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

 
9781138722262: Responsible Selves (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113872226X ISBN 13: 9781138722262
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2001. In the Nordic countries women are considered equal to men. Advanced social and economic rights are often given as the explanation for the equality. In this volume, Nordic feminist legal scholars give a more contradictory image of gender equality. The gendered construction of the legal subject and the legal understanding of gender have a two-pronged potential, both to change and to reproduce gender relations. Nordic women have been considered responsible for upholding the gendered social system - as "responsible selves" rather than as individuals engaged in rights discourse. The authors claim, with examples, that the belief in equality has made certain discriminative practices difficult to recognize and conceptualize. Also a transformation of the social welfare system puts the collective equality policies to the test.

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About the Author

Nousiainen, Kevat; Gunnarsson, Asa; Niemi-Kiesilinen, Johanna; Lundstrom, karin

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113872226X
ISBN 13 
9781138722262
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
384
Editor
Nousiainen Kevat, Gunnarsson Asa, Niemi-Kiesilinen Johanna, Lundstrom Karin

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9780815376514: Responsible Selves: Women in the Nordic legal culture (Routledge Revivals)

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ISBN 10:  0815376510 ISBN 13:  9780815376514
Publisher: Routledge, 2018
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