Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4983178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Fishbayn Joffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa Fishbayn |
| FAMILY NAME | Joffe |
| SIGNATURE | JOFFE L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7418-4269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Polygamy Question
Polygamy Question
What's the Harm in Polygamy? Multicultural Toleration and Women's Experience of Plural Marriage
The last decade has seen the publication in North America of a plethora of academic books and articles about polygamy. The most important texts on the subject, however, are two court rulings evaluating the constitutionality of criminal prohibitions against the practice of polygamy. Informed by and in dialogue with this academic discourse, these courts arrived at dramatically different conclusions. In Reference re s. 293 of the Criminal Code of Ca…
Gender, Colonialism and Rabbinical Courts in Mandate Palestine
The distribution of powers between the state and religious groups plays an important role in shaping how controversies over multicultural toleration and women’s rights under religious law can be resolved. Some structures encourage dialogue while others make it difficult. In Israel, the presence of multiple systems of personal religious law limits the possibilities for the transformation of discriminatory religious laws. There is no civil marriage…
Gender, Colonialism and Rabbinical Courts in Mandate Palestine
The distribution of powers between the state and religious groups plays an important role in shaping how controversies over multicultural toleration and women’s rights under religious law can be resolved. Some structures encourage dialogue while others make it difficult. In Israel, the presence of multiple systems of personal religious law limits the possibilities for the transformation of discriminatory religious laws. There is no civil marriage…
Gender, Multiculturalism and Dialogue: The Case of Jewish Divorce
Can the law act as a catalyst to change minority practices that discriminate against women? Can civil law merely impose remedies from outside the minority culture or can legal mechanisms be devised which spur internal change? Theorists of gender and multiculturalism have argued that civil law can play a role in creating the conditions which allow, and indeed compel, cultural communities to engage in internal dialogue to transform their norms into…
Litigating the right to culture: Family law in the new South Africa
South Africa enacted a new Constitution in 1996. It purports to guarantee the rights to gender equality and to participation in the cultural life of one's choosing. The nature of the relationship between these potentially conflicting rights has been left to be worked out through adjudication. This article examines the first three cases in which courts have had to consider the significance of the right to culture in the context of family law dispu…
Gender, Multiculturalism and Dialogue: The Case of Jewish Divorce
Can the law act as a catalyst to change minority practices that discriminate against women? Can civil law merely impose remedies from outside the minority culture or can legal mechanisms be devised which spur internal change? Theorists of gender and multiculturalism have argued that civil law can play a role in creating the conditions which allow, and indeed compel, cultural communities to engage in internal dialogue to transform their norms into…
Litigating the right to culture: Family law in the new South Africa
South Africa enacted a new Constitution in 1996. It purports to guarantee the rights to gender equality and to participation in the cultural life of one's choosing. The nature of the relationship between these potentially conflicting rights has been left to be worked out through adjudication. This article examines the first three cases in which courts have had to consider the significance of the right to culture in the context of family law dispu…
Litigating the right to culture: Family law in the new South Africa
South Africa enacted a new Constitution in 1996. It purports to guarantee the rights to gender equality and to participation in the cultural life of one's choosing. The nature of the relationship between these potentially conflicting rights has been left to be worked out through adjudication. This article examines the first three cases in which courts have had to consider the significance of the right to culture in the context of family law dispu…
Gender, Multiculturalism and Dialogue: The Case of Jewish Divorce
Can the law act as a catalyst to change minority practices that discriminate against women? Can civil law merely impose remedies from outside the minority culture or can legal mechanisms be devised which spur internal change? Theorists of gender and multiculturalism have argued that civil law can play a role in creating the conditions which allow, and indeed compel, cultural communities to engage in internal dialogue to transform their norms into…
Gender, Colonialism and Rabbinical Courts in Mandate Palestine
The distribution of powers between the state and religious groups plays an important role in shaping how controversies over multicultural toleration and women’s rights under religious law can be resolved. Some structures encourage dialogue while others make it difficult. In Israel, the presence of multiple systems of personal religious law limits the possibilities for the transformation of discriminatory religious laws. There is no civil marriage…
Gender, Colonialism and Rabbinical Courts in Mandate Palestine
The distribution of powers between the state and religious groups plays an important role in shaping how controversies over multicultural toleration and women’s rights under religious law can be resolved. Some structures encourage dialogue while others make it difficult. In Israel, the presence of multiple systems of personal religious law limits the possibilities for the transformation of discriminatory religious laws. There is no civil marriage…
The Polygamy Question
Polygamy Question
What's the Harm in Polygamy? Multicultural Toleration and Women's Experience of Plural Marriage
The last decade has seen the publication in North America of a plethora of academic books and articles about polygamy. The most important texts on the subject, however, are two court rulings evaluating the constitutionality of criminal prohibitions against the practice of polygamy. Informed by and in dialogue with this academic discourse, these courts arrived at dramatically different conclusions. In Reference re s. 293 of the Criminal Code of Ca…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works)