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Challenges the mistaken belief that Victorian England and Wales were nations of married, cohabiting couples 👉 https://bit.ly/40oBJIa

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Banner showing the cover image of 'Hanging in the Balance' and the text: A compelling, intriguing and novel perspective on women’s rights to equality in constitutional democracies.

Now available: 'Hanging in the Balance' by Meghan Campbell

The first in-depth assessment of how justification functions when women are claiming their right to equality ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hCHr1a

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Banner showing the cover image of 'Manning the Law' and the text: Exposes the methods employed by men of legal authority to retain and justify their power and privilege, through controlling the story of the legal person.

New release: 'Manning the Law' by Ngaire Naffine

A study of elite English men of English law and the methods they used to retain and justify their power and privilege ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Kml8QW

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In Baghdad, Cordoba, and Damascus, women were active as scholars, hadith transmitters, and patrons of endowments. Classical Islamic law was never static—it constantly interacted with social realities.
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Now published: 'Progressive Laws in Patriarchal Societies: Lessons from Pakistan' by Sara Malkani bit.ly/4m5gLYA

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