Fifty Legal Landmarks for Women

Combining fifty English cases, relevant statutes, and international conventions over the last 200 years, this title is both a useful teaching guide and a comprehensive text. Drawing on landmark cases that have developed women's social status, the author examines legal advances made across the legal system, including family law, EU law, and land law to illustrate the shifts in sexual attitudes over time. The impact of these cases on future legal disputes and social adjustments can only be fully appreciated through the author's thoroughly researched and informed observations of the paths towards, and away from, sexual equality. The influence of public policy and feminist campaigns on these landmark cases is considered. The author takes a balanced approach to social commentary, with a critical analysis of the state of women's legal rights as they stand and how they may be improved in the future.Auchmuty, Rosemary is the author of 'Fifty Legal Landmarks for Women ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781859417591 and ISBN 1859417590.