Feminist Legal Studies

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Using the catalogue
3. Texts and reports (post 1990):
   Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
4. Looseleaf services
5. Conference proceedings
6. Audiovisual materials
7. Bibliographies
8. Useful sites on the Internet
9. Periodical indexes
10. Periodicals, online or in the Library
11. Just published and forthcoming publications
12. Fellow travellers or we are not alone
13. Not held, try ...

1	Introduction

This pathfinder is primarily a guide to finding information held in the Law Library in the area of feminist legal studies. Readers should note that in some jurisdictions the subject is known as feminist jurisprudence.

2	Using the catalogue

Readers should note when using the Catalogue of the University of Sydney Library that if you don't know the author or title, you can try the Subject or Keyword approach.

The difference is that the Subject approach will yield only items catalogued under prescribed subject headings; the Keyword approach will usually yield more hits as it searches across the author, subject headings, titles and series.

Using Keywords and entering W ie Words from Author, Title, Series, Corporate Author or Contents Notes and keying in "feminism and law" yields a different result to keying in "women and law"

By using Keywords and entering S ie Subject keywords and keying in "feminism and law" yields a different result again.

By searching under Subject the prescribed term appears to be Women---Legal Status. Other relevant subject headings include:
Equality;
Family violence;
Feminism;
Feminist jurisprudence;
Feminist theory;
Gender;
Legal assistance to women;
Husband and wife;
Sex discrimination;
Sexual crimes;
Sexual harassment
Women (international law)

Be aware of different terms used in overseas jurisdictions eg in the US, they use Sex crimes not Sexual assault, Family violence instead of Domestic violence. As the University of Sydney Library uses Library of Congress subject headings then readers should be aware of this when searching under Subject in the Catalogue.

3	Texts and reports
	(only items published 1990 onwards)

Australia

Aspects of property law: the impact upon women, Sydney, Committee for Postgraduate Studies in the Department of Law, 1992.
Law Research 346.9404 20

Australian Law Reform Commission. Equality before the law, Part 1, and Part 2. Sydney, The Commission, 1994. In full text on the Internet.
Also held in Law Research at 346.940134 9.

Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Gender bias and the judiciary, Canberra, The Committee, 1994. Chairman: Sen B Cooney.
Law Research 347.94014 13

Australia. Sex Discrimination Commissioner. Report on review of permanent exemptions under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992.
Law Research 342.94087 6

Berns, S; Baron, P & Neave, M Gender and citizenship: materials for Australian law schools (Canberra, Dept of Employment, Education, & Training, 1996).
Law Research 346.940134 11. Also in full text on the Web

Davies, M Asking the law question, Sydney, Law Book Co, 1994.
Law Undergraduate 340.1 280

Graycar, R (ed) Dissenting opinions: feminist explorations in law and society, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1990.
Law Research 340.115 105

Graycar, R & Morgan, J Hidden gender of law, Leichhardt, NSW, Federation Press, 1990.
Law Research 342.940878 3

Graycar, R & Morgan, J Work and violence themes: including gender issues in the core law curriculum (Canberra, Dept of Employment, Education and Training), 1996.
Law Research 346. 940134 12. Also in full text on the Web

Herron, M et al Facing the future: gender, employment and best practice issues for law firms: Final report, Melbourne, Victoria Law Foundation, 1996.
Law Research 331.48134 1

EM Irving, H A woman's constitution?: gender & history in the Australian Commonwealth, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1996.
Law Research 342.940878 7

Kirkby, D (ed) Sex power and justice: historical perspectives of law in Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Law Research 346.940134 10

Lesbians and the law : a practical guide, produced by Women's Legal Resources Ltd and the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby Inc. [Sydney] Amazon Desktop Publishing, 1991.
Law Research 346.9440134 1

Libesman, T & Sripathy, V Your body your baby: women's legal rights from conception to birth, Redfern, NSW, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, 1996.
Law Research 346.940134 13

Millbank, J Lesbian families and Australian laws, Canberra, Coalition of Activist Lesbians, 1997.
Law Research 364.9440134

Naffine, N Law and the sexes: explorations in feminist jurisprudence, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1990.
Law Undergraduate 340.115 101

Naffine, N & Owens, RJ (eds) Sexing the subject of law, Sydney, LBC Information Services, 1997.
Law Research 340.082 3

New South Wales. Attorney-General's Dept/Department of Women. Gender bias and the law: women working in the legal profession report of the Implementation Committee, 1996.
Law Research 340.023 44

O'Reilly, C Sexually transmitted debt Sydney, Law Society, 1998.
Law Research 346.94073 40

Ronalds, C Affirmative action and sex discrimination: a handbook on legal rights for women, 2nd ed, Sydney, Pluto Press, 1991.
Law Research 344.9401413 1A

Scutt, JA Women and the law: commentary and materials, Sydney, Law Book Co, 1990.
Law Undergraduate 342.940878 2

Streeton, JD and Langford, R Aspects of real property and insolvency law, Adelaide, Adelaide Law Review Association, University of Adelaide, 1994.
Law Research 346.94043 17

Stubbs, J (ed) Women, male violence and the law, Sydney, Institute of Criminology, 1994.
Law Reserve/Undergraduate 345.02555 1

Thornton, M Dissonance and distrust: women in the legal profession, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Law Undergraduate 340.082 2

Thornton, M Liberal promise: anti-discrimination legislation in Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Law Undergraduate 346.94013 4

Thornton, M Portia lost in the groves of academe wondering what to do about legal education, Melbourne, La Trobe University, Legal Studies, 1991.
Law Research 340.07 26

Thornton, M (ed) Public and private: feminist legal debates, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Law Undergraduate 346.0134 10

Women's Coalition Against Family Violence Blood on whose hands? The killing of women and children in domestic homicides, Brunswick, Vic, 1994.
Law Research 364.1520994 8

Canada

Boyd, S Challenging the public private divide: feminism, law and public policy, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Law Research 305.40971 2

Brockman, J & Chunn, D (eds) Investigating gender bias - law, courts and the legal profession, Toronto, Thompson Educational Publishing, 1993.
Law Research 342.710878 3

Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women Canadian Charter Equality Rights for Women: one step forward or two steps back? Ottawa, Ont, 1989.
Law Research 342.710878 1

Dawson, TB Women, law and social change - core readings and current issues, 2nd ed, North York, Ont, 1993.
Law Research 349.71082 1

Hagan, J & Kay, F Gender in practice: a study of lawyers' lives, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Law Research 349.71082 2

United Kingdom

Barnett, Hilaire Introduction to feminist jurisprudence , London, Cavendish Publishing, 1998.
Law Research 340.11082 2

Bottomley, A (ed) Feminist perspectives on the foundational subjects of law, London, Cavendish Publishing, 1996.
Law Research 346.410134 5

Bridgeman, J & Millns, S Feminist perspectives on law - law's engagement with the female body, London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1998.
Law Research 349.41082 1

Collier, R Masculinity, law and the family, London, Routledge, 1995.
Law Reserve 346.013 9

Fredman, S Women and the law, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997.
Law Research 342.0878 2

Lacey, Nicola Unspeakable subjects: feminist essays in legal and social theory , Oxford, Hart Pub, 1998.
Law Research 340.082 8

Legal feminisms: theory and practice ed. by Clare McGlynn. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1998.
Law Research 340.082 7

McColgan, A Women under the law: the false promise of human rights, Harlow, Longman, 2000.
Law Research 342.0878 4

Millns, S & Whitty, N (eds) Feminist perspectives on public law, London, Cavendish Publishing, 1999.
Law Research 342.41 36

Shetreet, S (ed) Women in law, London, Kluwer Law International, 1998.
Law Research 340.082 9

United States

Bartlett, KT & Kennedy, R (eds) Feminist legal theory: readings in law and gender, Boulder, Col, Westview Press, 1991.
Law Research 346.0134 14

Becker, M; Bowman, CG & Torrey, M Cases and materials on feminist jurisprudence - taking women seriously, St Paul, Minn, West Publishing, 1994.
Law Research 346.730134 5B

Cornell, D At the heart of freedom: feminism, sex and equality, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1998.
Law Research 305.42 497

Dusky, L Still unequal: the shameful truth about women and justice in America, New York, Crown Publishers, 1996.
Law Research 342.730878 14

Fineman, MA & McClusky, MT (eds) Feminism, media and the law, New York, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Fisher Research 305.420973 108

Fineman, MA & Karpin, I (eds) Mothers in law - feminist theory and the legal regulation of motherhood, New York, Columbia University Press, 1995.
Law Reserve 347.730134 1

Fineman, MA Neutered mother, the sexual family and other twentieth century tragedies, New York, Routledge, 1995.
Law Research 346.015 14

Fineman, MA & Mykitiuk, R (eds) Public nature of private violence - the discovery of domestic abuse, New York, Routledge, 1994.
Law Research 306.87 95

Greenberg, JG; Minow, ML & Roberts, DE Women and the law, 2nd ed, New York, Foundation Press, 1998.
Law Research 346.730134 7A

Minow, M Making all the difference - inclusion, exclusion and American law, Ithaca, Cornell Univesity Press, 1990.
Law Research 346.7301 3

Olsen, FE (ed) Feminist legal theory, New York, New York University Press, 1995, 2 vols.
Law Research 346.0134 11

Peters, J & Wolper, A (eds.) Women's rights, human rights: international feminist perspectives, New York, Routledge, 1995.
Law Research 323.34 15

Robson, Ruthann Sappho goes to law school: fragments in lesbian legal theory , New York, Columbia UP, 1998
Law Research 346.73013 21

Smith, P (ed) Feminist jurisprudence, New York, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Law Research 346.0134 7

St Joan, J & McElhiney, AB (eds) Beyond Portia: women, law and literature in the United States, Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Fisher Research 810.9 727

Weisberg, DK (ed) Applications of feminist legal theory to women's lives: sex, violence, work, and reproduction, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1996.
Law Research 346.0134 13

Weisberg, DK (ed) Feminist legal theory: foundations, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1993.
Fisher Research 346.0134 8

Williams, PJ Alchemy of race and rights, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1991.
Law Undergraduate 342.730873 3

4	Looseleaf services

CCH Australian & New Zealand equal opportunity law & practice, North Ryde, NSW, 1984-. Includes Equal Opportunity Cases.
Law Looseleaf 344.9 1

Queensland women and the legal system: issues, tips and information. A resource kit for service providers in rural and regional Queensland, Brisbane, Women's Legal Service Inc.,[1999].
Law Research 342.9430878 1

Taubenfeld, RF and Taubenfeld, HJ (ed) Sex-based discrimination: international law and organization, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Oceana Publications, 1978-1992.
Law Looseleaf 341.481 90

5	Conference proceedings

Daley, C and Nolan, M (ed) Suffrage and beyond: international feminist perspectives, Annandale, NSW, Pluto Press/ Auckland, NZ, Auckland University Press, 1994. Papers presented at "Suffrage and beyond" Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, August 1993.
Fisher Undergraduate 324.623 6

Easteal, PW and McKillop, S Women and the law: proceedings of a conference held 24-26 Sept 1991, Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993.
Law Research 364.994082 1

Challenging the legal system's response to domestic violence, Conference papers: Brisbane 23-26 March 1994/ organised by the Queensland Southside Domestic Violence Action Group.
Law Research 362.8292 36

Some conference papers and proceedings are available on the Net for example:

(Australia) Women's Constitutional Convention (January 1998)

6	Audiovisual materials

Smith, J and Williams, J The Ginger group (videorecording): perspectives on law and gender, (Sydney, University of Sydney Student Union), 1991. Interviews with Law School Staff.
Law AV 346.9440134 2

I tried to tell them (kit): criminal law, Wollongong, NSW, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, 1997. 1 videocassette (VHS) (30 mins) + teaching guide, 22 p. Cross cultural communication and the law series. Illustrates communications breakdown between lawyer and client in a case involving an Aboriginal woman accused of murdering her husband.
Law AV 340.14 12

7	Bibliographies

Holland, FS Feminist jurisprudence: emerging from Plato's cave - a research guide, Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 1996.
Law Research 016.30542 13

Using periodical indexes such as Wilson's Index to Legal Periodicals or Legaltrac from the Law Library Databases website will yield eg Wentz, JA Research guide to women's studies for law students (1995) 15 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 43-56.

By using the Internet you can find the following bibliographies:

Souls on ice, or Honey, I defrosted the kids. Bibliography on frozen embryos. URL:http://www.law.indiana.edu/webinit/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos2.html

Women's rights and women's issues bibliography. URL:  http://www.law.indiana.edu/webinit/fcrc/bibliographies/women.htm

Cook, RJ and Oosterveld, VL Select bibliography of women's human rights. Provides a world wide perspective. URL: http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/

Dayton, K Select Bibliography: Feminist Theory. URL:<http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~akdclass/
femlit/femjurbib.html>

Finch, M Annotated Bibliography: Sexism in Language. URL:<http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~akdclass/femlit/804a.htm>

8	Useful sites on the Internet

This is a selection of sites that contain indexes to web-based resources on women and the law.

AustLII's Subject Index: Women and the Law. URL:<http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2416.html.

Solon's Voyage: Women and Law. Focusses on Australian links. URL:http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7001/kart_b.htm

Catalaw: a 'catalog of catalogs of law on the internet': Women, Gender and Law URL:<http://www.CataLaw.com/topics/Women.shtml>.

Dan's Australian Law Index:Legal Theory:Feminism. URL:<http://www.spirit.net.au/~dan/law/index/TOPICS/feminism.shtml>.

Gender and Citizenship:materials for Australian law schools, by Sandra Berns, Paula Barron and Marcia Neave. URL:http://uniserve.edu.au/law/pub/teaching_material/citizen/GenderandCitizenshipMateri.html#top

WWWomen - the "Premier Search Directory for Women Online" [U.S. focus] URL:<http://www.wwwomen.com>.

Feminist Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence on the WWW. URL:<http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~akdclass/femlit/femjur.html>

Feminist Curricular Resources Clearinghouse. This Clearinghouse provides access to a number of resources related to teaching about feminism and law. URL:< http://www.law.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/dbase/fcrc.cgi>

Kimgo Feminist Website. This list provides links between different groups of women and men who are interested in women's issues regarding social justice, human rights and the law. URL: <http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2995>

Other useful sites include the following:

National Women's Justice Coalition. A lobbying and networking organisation promoting women's equality before the law. Established in 1995.<http://www.nwjc.org.au/>

Australia. Office of the Status of Women: Links to publications and statutes in Australia and overseas on the status of women and gender analysis
<http://www.dpmc.gov.au/osw/content/resources/html

Feminist Activist Resources on the Net. A guide for feminist activists to Internet resources with a useful index and many links (USA focus).

URL: <http://www.igc.apc.org/women/feminist.html>

Women of the World: Formal Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives. Examines Brazil, China, Germany, India, Nigeria and the US.
<http://www.crlp.org/searchworld.html

Human Rights USA: Womens Rights Links. <http://www.hrusa.org/Archive/womenlink.htm>

9	Periodical indexes

The Law Library subscribes to the following journal indexes. Most are available via the Web to University of Sydney staff and students. For links to these and many other indexes and for access information see the Law Library Databases page:
(http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/law/databases.html).

• AGIS: Australian index to legal periodicals


• FAMILY: Australian Family and Society Abstracts
  
• APAIS: social sciences and public affairs
• LegalTrac: A major general law index. Produced in the U.S. but indexes journals from other countries and has a wide coverage. o
• Wilson's Index to Legal Periodicals (WilsonWeb): It has an American focus and also has a wide coverage of other jurisdictions.
• Legal Journals Index: This is a British publication and its coverage is Britain and Europe. For University of Sydney staff and students only, the UserName is SydneyUni and the Password is phillip
• Women's Resources International: Described by the US publisher as the ultimate women's studies resource. It includes Child Abuse and Neglect and a Family Studies database as well as covering all women's issues