Public and private : feminist legal debates / edited by M. Thornton.

Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Women.

Feminism.

Jurisprudence.

Part one: Introduction

1. The cartography of public and private

Part two: The public construction of private woman

2. Sexing the subject (of law)

3. The peripheral worker: women and the legal regulation of outwork

Part three: Sexuality: the perennial conundrum

4. (Out)laws: acts of proscription in the sexual order

5. Sexual harassment and the public/private dichotomy: equality, morality and manners

Part four: The privatising impulse

6. Women and enterprise bargaining: the legal and institutional framework

7. Private ordering in family law - will women benefit?

8. The weight of silence: talking about violence in family mediation

Part five: Challenging conceptions of public

9. Embodying the citizen

10. Reconceptualisations of civil society: third world and ethnic women

11. Worlds apart: public/private distinctions in international law

Part six: Private knowledge in public decision-making

12. The gender of judgments: an introduction.

Includes index.

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xviii, 318 pages ; 22 cm