Jocelynne A. Scutt Livres

Examining the intersection of beauty standards and legal frameworks, this book investigates how plastic and cosmetic surgery impact women's perceptions of their bodies. It questions whether these interventions align with women's desires and explores the legal ramifications when procedures go awry. Key themes include consent, cultural pressures, and the societal expectations that influence women's choices. The author highlights legal cases involving dissatisfied patients and companies promoting beauty products, shedding light on the complexities of body image and autonomy in contemporary society.

The book explores the ongoing legal and historical fight for equal pay in Australia, incorporating international perspectives from Canada, the UK, and the US. It combines law, history, and gender studies to analyze various campaigns, cases, and debates surrounding the issue. Tracing the struggle from the early 20th century, it highlights the activism of women's organizations, the divided stance of unions, and the responses from tribunals and courts, providing a comprehensive view of the efforts to achieve pay equity.

This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict. Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women – whatever their country and social and economic status – this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women’s and gender studies and media studies.