Misjustice : how British law is failing women / Helena Kennedy.
Publisher: London : Vintage Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Description: 344 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 021723238ISBN: 9781784707682Subject(s): Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain | Women -- Crimes against -- Great BritainDDC classification: 342.410878Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice
In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called 'lifestyle' choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current rules on excluding victims' sexual history from rape trials; battered wives being asked why they don't 'just leave' their partners; the way statistics hide the double discrimination experienced by BAME and disabled women; the failure to prosecute cases of female genital mutilation... the list goes on. The law holds up a mirror to society and it is failing women.
The #MeToo campaign has been in part a reaction to those failures. So what comes next? How do we codify what we've learned? In this richly detailed and shocking book, one of our most eminent human rights thinkers and practitioners shows with force and fury that change for women must start at the heart of what makes society just.
Originally published: Chatto & Windus, 2018.
Includes index.
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