Routledge Nordic Equality at a Crossroads: Feminist Legal Studies Coping with Difference (Routledge Revivals)

Product Description Originally published in 2004. Nordic Equality at a Crossroads makes a major contribution to the debates on equality and difference in contemporary Europe. In this absorbing work, feminist legal scholars from four Nordic countries provide a critical account of the latest legal policies in these countries linked with gender (in)equality, such as public financing of children's homecare, regulation of the labour market towards substantive equality, and the reforms concerning violence against women. These issues are matters of concern everywhere in Europe, and the solutions adopted in the Nordic countries will be of interest to all policy-makers. The increasing multiculturalism and the shift toward greater market orientation, however, have challenged the traditional Nordic equality policies. The authors argue that a structural and contextual analysis of inequality, also in the field of law, is necessary to encounter the challenge of pluralism. About the Author Eva-Maria Svensson, LLD, Senior Lecturer of Legal Science and Philosophy, University of Gothenburg. She has published articles on legal philosophy, gender theory and public law. Her articles discuss, for example, freedom of speech and pornography from a feminist perspective. Her current research projects deal with equality and epistemology in legal science. E-mail: Eva-Maria.Svensson@law.gu.se. Anu Pylkkänen, LLD, Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Her research interests have been the legal status of women in the early modem period and the history of matrimonial law from a comparative perspective. Her current research project is on the law on person. E-mail: Anu.Pylkkanen@helsinki.fi. Johanna Niemi-Kiesiläinen, LLD, Professor of Law, Umeå University. She has published articles on Finnish and comparative bankruptcy law and legal topics related to violence against women. She was a co-editor of the previous title from the same group: Responsible Selves. Women in the Nordic Legal Culture (Ashgate 2001). Currently, she is leading a research project, Violence in the Shadow o f Equality: Hidden Gender in Legal Discourse. E-mail: Johanna.Niemi- Kiesilainen@helsinki.fi.