Full Description
Moving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as 'legal', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law's subject-matter and formal processes. Through a process of reflection on the limits of law and repeated efforts to redraw them, this book challenges the general sense of pessimism among feminists and others about the usefulness of law as an instrument of change. The work combines theoretical analysis of the law's boundaries with investigation of the practical settings for changing legal and policy environments. Both the empirical focus of this volume, and its underlying theoretical concern with the limits of the law and its gender implications, render it of interest to legal scholars throughout the world, whether of EU law, feminism, social policy or philosophy.
Contents
Chapter 1 Reflecting the Epistemology of Law - Exploiting Boundaries, ÅsaGunnarsson, Eva-MariaSvensson, MargaretDavies; Chapter 2 Boundary-Work in Legal Scholarship, Eva-MariaSvensson; Chapter 3 An Apparent Boundary Between Law and Politics, ÅsaPersson; Chapter 4 Legal Texts as Discourses, JohannaNiemi-Kiesiläinen, PäiviHonkatukia, MinnaRuuskanen; Chapter 5 Beyond Constructed Boundaries in Criminal Law Discourse, MonicaBurman; Chapter 6 Children Crossing Borders - On Child Perspectives in the Swedish Aliens Act and the Limits of Law, EvaNilsson; Chapter 7 Challenging the Heteronormativity of Law, GörelGranström; Chapter 8 Social Insurance Law - The Core of Swedish Welfare Law, RuthMannelqvist; Chapter 9 Challenging one Fundamental Norm in Labour Law - the Exception of the Employer's Family and Home, CatharinaCalleman; Chapter 10 Exclusion of Solo Mothers in the Welfare State, LenaWennberg; Chapter 11 Gender Equality and the Diversity of Rights and Obligations in Swedish Social Citizenship, ÅsaGunnarsson; Chapter 12 Notes Towards an Optimistic Feminism, MargaretDavies;
