This book explores women's rights from an international perspective. The authors discuss abortion, surrogacy, prostitution, marriage and family law, touching on themes including children, property, forced and arranged marriage and under-age marriage, separation, divorce and widowhood. They also analyse commerce and financial rights, as well as employment rights and women in the corporate sector. Throughout the book these topics raise questions of respect, from the perspective of violence against women, provision of resources and services, and women in the criminal justice system under bail and imprisonment. This book also addresses the representation of women in media and politics, including in film and literature. Overall, the authors explore the intersection of rights, respect and representation, and their roles in women's status in society as well as in law.

Features research from the UK, the US, Pakistan, Portugal, Australia, Nigeria and Sweden Illustrate the overlap between women's rights in society in a variety of countries Illustrates the global impact of law and society on women

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Jocelynne A. Scutt is Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, and formerly Senior Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham, UK. A practicing Barrister and human rights lawyer at Fraser Chambers, Leadenhall Street, London, UK, and the Victorian Bar, William Street, Melbourne, Australia, she is also an historian and filmmaker.

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Chapter 1: Autonomy Power and Respect in Womens Rights and Representation.- Chapter 2: A Mother of a Job The Control and Commodification of Womens Reproduction.- Chapter 3: The Daughters of the Carnation Revolution 50 Years of Womens Rights in Portugal.- Chapter 4: Widows Denial of Rights and Respect in Southern Nigeria.- Chapter 5: Forging the Right to Work with Metal Women and the Struggle for Work in Wollongong.- Chapter 6: Demanding the Right of Representation for Women in Corporate Structures and Policy in the United Kingdom.- Chapter 7: Criminal Court Links to a Better Life and a Better Community in Queensland Australia.- Chapter 8: When a Womans Body is Not her Own Regulating Women through Abortion Law.- Chapter 9: Surrogacy A Matter of Womens Right to Self Determination or Exploitation of Womens Bodies.- Chapter 10: The Prostitution System as the Wreckage of Womens Autonomy Revising Sexual Assault Law to Undermine Structural.- Chapter 11: Informed Consent and the Prevention of Loss of Innocence Child and Forced Marriage in the United States.- Chapter 12: Between Legal and NonLegal Terrains Religious Nationalisms and Racialized Women Immigrants in the United States.- Chapter 13: Lobbying for Change One Womans Experiences of Incarceration and Male Violence.- Chapter 14: Representation Making the Absent Present.- Chapter 15: Thieving Rorters A Linguistic Analysis of Australian Female Politicians Construction in Public Comments in the post Gillard Period.- Chapter 16: State Violence Womens Safety and the Funding Cliff Edge The Impact of the New Funding Policy in Meeting the Needs of Black and Minoritised Women.- Chapter 17: Women and Property An Early Literary Response.- Chapter 18: Lolita The Mocked Female Reader.- Chapter 19: Living in a Pornographic World Constraint on the Autonomy of Girls and Women.- Chapter 20: Barbie Meets A Very Poor Thing Silenced by the Lambs Feminist Filmmaking En Counters Masculine Renditions of the Female.- Chapter 21: Parsing Womens Rights in Law and Society.