New book out by International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program

Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Cook and Simone Cusack on the publication of their book, Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives, now available in hardcover from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Cook is co-director of the Faculty of Law's International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program. Cusack, formerly our Reproductive Health Law Fellow, is now a public interest lawyer at the Public Interest Law Clearing House in Melbourne, Australia.

The book is a a volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14658.html.

Cook and Cusack argue that in order to abolish all forms of discrimination against women, priority needs to be given to the elimination of gender stereotypes. While stereotypes affect both men and women, they can have particularly egregious effects on women, often devaluing them and assigning them to subservient roles in society.

As the legal perspectives offered in Gender Stereotyping demonstrate, treating women according to restrictive generalizations instead of their individual needs, abilities, and circumstances denies women their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

View other key program publications relevant to reproductive and sexual health law.