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Women’s Budget Group position on Brexit

21.1.2019

‘Based on our analysis Women’s Budget Group has concluded that Brexit will have a damaging impact on the UK economy, with a ‘hard Brexit’, likely to be the most damaging. For many women, particularly the poorest, this could mean job losses, cuts to services, squeezed family budgets and reduced legal protections. Far from taking back control, a bad deal with the EU will make us vulnerable to demands from larger countries to reduce consumer rights and regulations protecting public services and competitive pressures to reduce our own labour standards’. Click here for more information

CFP: ‘Law, the Body and Embodiment: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives’ Australian Feminist Law Journal, Volume 46(1) 2020. Abstracts to be submitted by March 31, 2019.

21.1.2019

‘This special issue wishes to foreground the body and embodiment in relation to the law, from both contemporary and historical perspectives. In so doing, this CFP invites contributions that consider the following, but not exclusively: what is the relationship between law and the body, and law and embodiment? How does the law preclude, encourage, marginalize, or stratify particular kinds of embodiment, if at all – and how are particular kinds of embodiment gendered, sexed, classed and/or racialized? What role does culture play in relation to law and the body, and vice-versa?’ Click here for more information