Women in Law

Women in Law
By:"Shimon Shetreet"
Published on 1998 by Kluwer Law International

Women in Law contains the updated papers presented at the George A. Katz legal conference on Women in Law held in Jerusalem. It addresses the major social challenge of attaining equality for women in the legal profession, in academia and in the judiciary. the work also analyses the additional burden on women who have to assume a double workload when they combine their legal career with motherhood. Part of the book highlights the law relating to women, including sex discrimination laws and the rights of women in the family. The main themes of the book are women in the judiciary, academic world and legal profession; laws promoting equality for women; women, law and religion; the legal response to sex crimes and family violence; and women pursuing careers and meeting family responsibilities. Contributors to the book include distinguished judges, prominent and leading attorneys from the USA and Israel. the work will be of prime interest to academics in law, women's studies and gender studies.

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword law.

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Comic Women, Tragic Men

Comic Women, Tragic Men
By:"Linda Bamber"
Published on 1982-06-01 by Stanford University Press

This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword comic.

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