Rules, laws and regulations

Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

Chapter 6 in Gender Studies, 2025, pp 106-126 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Throughout the book we have explored the ways in which gendered exclusions operate and in this chapter we explore this explicitly in relation to rules laws and regulatory frameworks at different levels. We discussed regulatory frameworks to explore the ways in which laws intersect with cultural norms and ideas about, for example, gender as a way to consider how legal frameworks around gender may be understood in practice. We explore Puwar's work on how ethnic minority women may feel excluded and out of place to understand how implicit exclusions work even if legal frameworks are explicitly more about gender equality. We explore example of United Nations here and take the particular example of the climate crisis; we explore the possibilities and challenges of global frameworks as well as the need to understand the localised in particular ways in which gender regimes operate. The example of the climate crisis is used to highlight the importance of multidisciplinary approaches in terms of how solutions to the climate crisis are ones which need to be embedded in gender equity but also how food systems such as agriculture currently operate in ways that exacerbate gender inequalities for women but particularly in the context of the global South. The chapter moves on to consider digital activism and the relation these forms of activism have to legal changes and indicate the need to explore differences in different countries. We close with the example of university and equalities legislations and how these operate. Overall, the chapter demonstrates the complex ways in which legal frameworks intersect with norms, experiences, digital as well as off-line, as well as how gender inequalities intersect with other forms of inequality.

Keywords: Regulatory frameworks; Global gender rights; United Nations; Measuring inequalities; Climate crisis; Digital activism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800373945
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