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Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy.
This is an open access ebook available through vendor Elgaronline.
Includes: Ch. 5: Advancing Access to Social Security: Maternity Protection and Social Justice for Women in the Informal Economy -- Janine Hicks + Ch 11: Interrelationship of Legal Gender Identity and the Right to Health of Transgender Persons in India -- Amit Upadhyay & Arvind Tayenjam.
Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy.
Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy of this book.
This is a link to an open access ebook provided by vendor Taylor & Francis.
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Although the legislation is Australian-based, the issues raised by each are recognisably global, and are reflected in the legislation of most other nations."
Contents: Feminist Pragmatist Philosophy and Activsm -- Imagining Social Rights: Jane Addams and Hull House -- Women's Networks and Social Science: Julia Lathrop and the Juvenile Courts -- Judicial Activism for Social Rights: Florence Kelley -- African American Clubwomen: Mary Church Terrell and Mary McLeod Bethune -- Grace Abbott and the Immigrants' Protective League -- Violent Interlude and Reform Backlash -- Internationalism and Global Social Rights: Emily Greene Balch -- The Children's Bureau: A Prototype for Federal Social Rights -- Feminism: The Struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment and Workplace Protections -- Social Rights in the New Deal: Frances Perkins, Molly Dewson, and Mary McLeod Bethune -- Conclusion: Are Social Rights at Risk Today?
Legal treatise updated in Sept. 2025. Enter your Westlaw username/password.
Excerpt from book's summary: "This volume offers a set of biographies of women and gender non-conforming people who made a difference in international law but who, in most cases, were never well-known or have been forgotten. These portraits describe each individual's engagement with international law, the context in which they worked, and the barriers they faced."
Dec. 10, 2025: 1 print copy ordered by BLS Library.
Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library ordered 1 print copy.
Excerpt from Amazon's book description: "The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger."
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "The volume is a result of a much-needed effort to rethink traditional legal concepts in a gender-sensitive and gender competent manner. The book deals with topics as jurisprudence and gender, feminist approaches to jurisprudence: liberalism, difference, dominance, anti-essentialism, postmodernism, positivism, natural law, feminist jurisprudence, developments in feminist legal theory as well as feminist critiques of traditional legal concepts."
This is an open access ebook available through vendor Elgaronline.
Excerpt from the ebook's description: "This pertinent book investigates how governments are involved in human reproduction. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book provides crucial insights from the fields of sociology, law, political science and demography."
Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy.
Short Stories. Summary: "A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being that prioritize healing and justice not just for Latinx people, but for Queer BIPOC communities and, ultimately, for all people."
Legal treatise updated in Dec. 2025. Enter your Westlaw username/password.
Summary: "Explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived."
Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library is in the process of ordering digital access through vendor EBSCO.
Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy.
Excerpt from Amazon's book description: "In the mid-19th century, Elizabeth Packard found herself trapped in an unjust world, silenced by a society that deemed her opinions and intellect unworthy. Braving the confines of an oppressive mental asylum, Elizabeth defied all odds as she fought for her freedom and the rights of countless other women confined against their will. With relentless determination, she became a voice that resonated across the nation, igniting a movement for change."
Book co-written by recently retired Professor Elizabeth Schneider. 1 print copy in circulating Main collection.
This ebook is available to multiple BLS users in one of BLS Library's Oxford ebook collections.
Dec. 10, 2025: BLS Library has ordered 1 print copy.
