Afterword

Davies, Margaret

doi:10.1007/s10691-022-09513-6

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“…Identifying more profound social and legal policy shifts, beyond the terms of decertification, is a theme running through this collection of articles. Decertification may appear politically unviable as a legal reform in England and Wales at the current time, but, in many ways, it is a moderate change that simply detaches sex and gender from legal status as Margaret Davies (2023) addresses in her Afterword. When it comes to embedded and structural forms of inequality, changes other than (and beyond) status deformalisation are also necessary.…”

Section: Decertification As a Proposal For New Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Introduction to Special Issue: Decertifying Legal Sex—Prefigurative Law Reform and the Future of Legal Gender

Cooper

Renz

2023

Fem Leg Stud

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Our analysis includes laws that relate specifically to England and Wales as well as laws which also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland, e.g., see Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances Act 2021, s7(1). 2 Political contestation over the terms of sex and gender-in what they mean, what they include, and how they operate as material enactments-makes their usage complicated. Our use of gender does not refer principally to identity or expression but to socially institutionalised processes that draw and maintain hierarchical distinctions. These also work with and give meaning to material forms of embodiment, conventionally understood as sex. Thus, we refer to gender in contexts where some sex-based feminists would prefer to talk about sex. Where the law refers explicitly to 'sex', we follow this terminology. However, English law is often inconsistent in its usage of these terms.

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Section: Decertification As a Proposal For New Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In her Afterword, Davies (2023) reflects on the plural temporalities that decertification invokes. Treating a contentious legal proposal associated with the future as if it was a currently viable reform is an exercise in prefigurative institutional experimentation.…”

Section: Decertification As Experimental Prefigurative Law Reform Pra...mentioning

confidence: 99%