Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States

In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist-who is also the founding editor of Gender & Society-challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.

Paradoxes of gender

This study applies Agnew's general strain theory (GST) to two fundamental questions about gender and crime: (1) How can we explain the higher rate of crime among males? (2) How can we explain why females engage in crime? With respect to the first question, the authors suggest that gender differences in types of strain and the reaction to strain help one understand the gender gap in criminal behavior. With respect to the second question, it is argued that several types of strain may lead to female crime under the proper circumstances. In this area, GST has much in common with numerous accounts that explain female crime in terms of oppression.

Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective

In this essay we sketch core elements of feminist thought and demonstrate their relevance for criminology. After reviewing the early feminist critiques of the discipline and the empirical emphases of the 1970s and early 1980s, we appraise current issues and debates in three areas: building theories of gender and crime, controlling men's violence toward women, and gender equality in the criminal justice system. We invite our colleagues to reflect on the androcentrism of the discipline and to appreciate the promise of feminist inquiry for rethinking problems of crime and justice.

Feminism and criminology

The empirical literature on the longer-term adjustment of children of divorce is reviewed from the perspective of (a) the stressors and elevated risks that divorce presents for children and (b) protective factors associated with better adjustment. The resiliency demonstrated by the majority of children is discussed, as are controversies regarding the adjustment of adult children of divorce. A third dimension of children's responses to divorce, that of lingering painful memories, is distinguished from pathology in order to add a useful complement to risk and resilience perspectives. The potential benefits of using an increasingly differentiated body of divorce research to shape the content of interventions, such as divorce education, by designing programs that focus on known risk factors for children and that assist parents to institute more protective behaviors that may enhance children's longer-term adjustment is discussed.

Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives

Introduction 1. The Power of Law 2. Rape: Law and the Disqualification of Women's Sexuality 3. A Note on Child Sexual Abuse 4. The Quest for a Feminist Jurisprudence 5. Law, Power and Women's Studies 6. Theory into Practice: The Problem of Pornography 7. The Problem of Rights Bibliography Index.

Feminism and the power of law

Introduction 1. The nature of female criminality 2. Classical studies of female criminality 3. Contemporary studies of female criminality 4. Prostitution, rape and sexual politics 5. The treatment of female offenders 6. Women, crime and mental illness 7. Redressing the balance: Women and criminology Appendix I Appendix II Notes Bibliography Index

Women, Crime and Criminology : A Feminist Critique

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A sociology of personal life. 2. The cultural turn in the sociology of family life and living. 3. Emotions, love and the problem of commitment. 4. Connections and cultures of tradition. 5. Secrets and lies. 6. Families we live with. 7. Possessions, things and relationality. 8. Conclusion. References. Index

Personal life : new directions in sociological thinking

Acknowledgements. Chapter 1: Re--thinking Childhood/Re--thinking Families. Chapter 2: Childhood and Modern Narratives of Harm. Chapter 3: Childrena s Perspectives on Post--Divorce Family Life. Chapter 4: a Doinga Post--Divorce Childhood. Chapter 5: Do children care?: Childhood and Moral Reasoning. Chapter 6: Children, Citizenship and Family Practices. Chapter 7: Childrena s Experiences of Co--parenting. Chapter 8: Children and their Parents: Different Perspectives. Chapter 9: Implications. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index

The Changing Experience of Childhood: Families and Divorce

Introduction PART ONE: CRIMINOLOGY Introduction Criminological Theory Its Ideology and Implications Concerning Women Feminist Approaches to Criminology, or Postmodern Woman Meets Atavistic Man PART TWO: SEXUALITY Introduction Legal Subjects and Sexual Objects Ideology, Law and Female Sexuality Law's Power, the Sexed Body and Feminist Discourse Unquestionably a Moral Issue Rhetorical Devices and Regulatory Imperatives Law, Feminism and Sexuality From Essence to Ethics? PART THREE: FEMINIST THEORY AND LAW Introduction Legal Regulation or Male Control? Feminism and the Law Some Problems of Analysis and Strategy Feminist Jurisprudence The Woman of Legal Discourse Proscription, Prescription and the Desire for Certainty? Feminist Theory in the Field of Law Postscript of the 1990s, or 'Still Angry After all These Years'

Carol Smart

Papers

Feminism and the power of law

Women, Crime and Criminology : A Feminist Critique

Personal life : new directions in sociological thinking

The Changing Experience of Childhood: Families and Divorce

Law, Crime and Sexuality: Essays in Feminism