{"title":"Ngaire Naffine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNgaire Naffine\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into the intersections of law, gender, and philosophy. Her works critically examine how legal concepts shape and are shaped by social constructs, particularly focusing on issues of masculinity, feminism, and intention within the legal context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thought-provoking analyses that challenge traditional perspectives in both criminology and legal theory. With a strong academic foundation, these titles engage with complex ideas while remaining accessible for those interested in education and reference within the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"manning-the-law-by-ngaire-naffine-9781509983513","title":"Manning the Law","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a study of elite English men of English law and the methods they used to retain and justify their power and privilege, through controlling the story of the legal person.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt looks at how these men of legal authority thought of themselves and their institution; how they studied and explained law; and how they put themselves in the middle of it, as the standard human in need of legal regulation and protection and in charge of that regulation and protection, and assigned to women an inferior legal role and being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe main strategy used to do all this was manipulation of the concept of ‘the legal person’. From the 1860s to the 1920s, the courts declared that women were not ‘persons’ who could exercise public power – to vote, to sit in Parliament, to gain degrees, to be lawyers. Up to the end of the 20th century, and into the 21st, women’s personhood remained precarious in the private sphere, for rape was excused within a marriage and female reproduction remained under state control (as it still does).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book examines the active exclusion of women from the means of making legal meaning, especially the ability to shape law’s central concept, and shows the epistemological effects of this sex differential of legal power which are still felt today. Leading legal thinkers who helped to masculinise the concept of the person, to the detriment of women, are still revered. 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