Civil liberties - new material (43)
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01 March 2001
Dead Woman Walking - Executed women in England and Wales 1900-1955, Anette Ballinger, ISBN 1-84014-789-X, £50 hardback, pp374.
This book analyses the capital punishment of women in England and Wales, based on extensive archive material and case studies and with the use of feminist theory. Central to the book is the analysis of sexist discourses surrounding the portrayal and explanation of female violence. Seven chapters include the social history of capital punishment and gender, feminist theory and the power to punish. Chapters four to six provide in-depth case material and analysis of women killing their own children, other women and their male partners. Available from: Ashgate, Gower House, Croft Road, Hampshire GU11 3HR, 0044(20)1252 331551, ashgate@cityscape.co.uk
Women's Rights at Work ? a Handbook of Employment Law. Alison Clark, ISBN 0?7453?1559?3, £12.99, pp233.
This book “begins by exploring the potential problems facing women trying to find a job and ends with an examination of how to pursue a claim for unfair dismissal.” In an attempt to provide a comprehensive guide to women's rights at work, the book gives an overview of existing employment laws in relation to gender and covers key issues such as inequality with regards to pay, unfair dismissal, sexual harassment, age discrimination and lack of promotion, drawing on a wide range of relevant legislation such as Contract Law, the National Minimum Wage Act, the 1998 Data Protection Act and the 1998 Human Rights Act. Available from: Pluto Press, 245 Archway Rd, London N6 5AA, Tel: 0044(2)0 8348?2724, pluto@plutobks.demon.co.uk, www.plutobooks.com.
Hanratty may still be innocent, OK?, Paul Foot. Guardian 4.4.01.
Foot considers the leaked details of new DNA tests on the exhumed body of James Hanratty, who was hanged in 1962 for the A6 murder, which “conclusively” link him to the crime. Foot, along with a number of other commentators, have shown that eye-witness evidence placed Hanratty elsewhere at the time of the murder and that the police mishandling of the case and “every single new discovery by the [Criminal Cases Review] commission's investigator's pointed to Hanratty's innocence.” He argues that “the case for Hanratty's innocence is stronger than it ever was, and that if the DNA suggests otherwise there must be something wrong with the DNA.”
Parliamentary debates
Private Security Industry Bill [HL] Lords 30.1.01 cols 562-571; 587-626; 643-682
Social Security Fraud Bill [HL] Lords 1.2.01 cols 810-865; 883-928
Social Security Fraud Bill [HL] Lords 6.2.01 cols 1049-1120
Drugs and the Law Lords 21.2.01 cols 871-904
Communications White Paper Lords 28.2.01 cols 1223-1262