Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction.

Edited by Elaine Wood - Introduction by Elaine Wood - Contributions by John Felipe Acevedo; Lisa Beckmann; Arunita Das; Theodore Davenport; Catherine Cymone Fourshey; Marla L. Jaksch; Ava Ladner; Laura Lane-Steele; Shirley Lin; Lissa Lincoln; Christin M.

Introduction

By Elaine Wood

Part 1: Praxis and Policy

1. Constructing Criminality: R v. Gladue, Intersectionality, and The Criminalization of Indigenous women'

By Arunita Das

2. Losing Custodial Mothers in Child Support Reform

By Laura Lane-Steele

3. Justice, Gender, and Caste: a Case for Dalit Feminist Testimonio

By Lissa Lincoln

4. Dehumanization "Because of" Sex: A Neutral Approach to the Rights of Sexual Minorities Under Multiaxial Analysis

By Shirley Lin

Part 2: Policing Bodies

5. Divorce Ruling Without Consent: Gender, Penal Law, and the Faminized Body in Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You

By Christin M. Mulligan

6. Gender and Justice in International Human Rights Law: The Need for an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

By Rebecca Smyth

7. "Like Cats and Dogs in the Streets": Disability and Sexuality in the Eugenic Legal Imagination

By Lisa Beckmann

8. Victims of State Violence: Indigenous and Women of Color Sex Workers' Interactions with Law Enforcement in Canada

By Menaka Raguparan

Part 3: Activist Politics of Resistance

9. Intersections of Gender and In(justice): Bibi Titi Mohamed and Women's Struggles during and after Independence in Tanzania

By Catherine Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch

10. Policing and Place-Making: Trans* Persecution and Resilience

By Ava Ladner

11. Becoming Theodore: Spatial Legal Consciousness and Transgender Name Changes

By Theodore Davenport

12. The Model Speaks?: Obscenity Laws in the United States

By John Felipe Acevedo