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040 _aAFVC
100 _aRenz, Flora
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245 _aReimagining gender through equality law :
_bwhat legal thoughtways do religion and disability offer?
_cFlora Renz and Davina Cooper
260 _bSpringer
_c2022
490 0 _aFeminist Legal Studies
500 _aFeminist Legal Studies, 2022, 30: 129-155
520 _aBritish equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment have grown fraught as activists tussle over legal and social categories of gender, gender transitioning, and sex. This article considers the future of gender-related equality protections in relation to ‘decertification’—an imagined reform that would detach sex and gender from legal personhood. One criticism of decertification is that de-formalising gender membership would undermine equality law protections. This article explores how gender-based equality law could operate in conditions of decertification, drawing on legal thoughtways developed for two other protected characteristics in equality law—religion and belief, and disability—to explore the legal responses and imaginaries that these two grounds make available. Religious equality law focuses on beliefs, communities, and practices, deemed to be stable, multivarious, and subject to deep personal commitment. Disability equality law focuses on embodied disadvantage, approached as social, relational, and fluctuating. While these two equality frameworks have considerable limitations, they offer legal thoughtways for gender oriented to both its hierarchies and its expression, including as disavowal. (Authors' abstract). Record #7738
610 _aThe Future of Legal Gender Project
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650 _aDISABILITY
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650 _aDISCRIMINATION
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650 _aGENDER
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650 _aGENDER EQUALITY
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650 _aINTERSEX
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650 _aLAW REFORM
_dLGBTIQ+
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650 0 _aLGBTQIA+
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650 _aNON-BINARY
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650 _aRELIGION
_9495
650 _aTRANSGENDER
_93315
650 _aWOMEN
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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700 _aCooper, Davina
_911099
773 0 _tFeminist Legal Studies, 2022, 30: 129-155
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-021-09481-3
_zDOI: 10.1007/s10691-021-09481-3 (Open access)
856 _uhttps://futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/
_zThe Future of Legal Gender project website
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_cARTICLE
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