- Title
- Law, Women Judges and the Gender Order:Lessons from the High Court of Australia
- Creator
- McLoughlin, Kcasey
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429288531
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers onthe High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on theHigh Court has disrupted the Court’s historically masculinist gender regime.This book examines how the High Court’s gender regime operates once thereis more than one woman on the bench. It explores the following questions: Howhave the Court’s gender relations accommodated the presence women on thebench? How have the women themselves accommodated those pre-existinggender relations? How might legal judgments and reasoning change as a result ofchanging gender dynamics on the bench? To develop answers to these (and other)questions the book pursues a methodology that conceptualises the High Court asan institution with a particular gender regime shaped historically by the dominantgender order of the wider society. The intersection between the (gendered) indi-viduals and the (gendered) institution in which they operate produces and repro-duces that institution’s gender regime. Hence, the enquiry is not so much asking‘have women judges made a difference?’but rather is asking how should weunderstand women judges’relationship with the law, a relationship that is shapedas much by the individual judge as by the institutional context in which theyoperate.Scholars, legal practitioners and researchers interested in judicial reasoning,gender diversity and the legal profession, gender and politics will be interestedin this book because it breaks new ground as a case study of a Court’s genderregime at a particular time.
- Subject
- women judges; High Court of Australia; gender relations; law
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449530
- Identifier
- uon:43686
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780429288531
- Language
- eng
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