Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice

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The justice system was created for men by men with no allowances for different life experiences/cultures, and that needs to change, and Kennedy outlines her suggestions. At the Inns of Court, she describes an overwhelmingly male and overtly misogynistic environment steeped in bizarre ritual.

Baroness Kennedy is a leading barrister and she gives insightful detail into her own experiences as a female lawyer and the everyday sexism she has encountered in her career. She also takes a wider look at how the way our law is written and enforced can discriminate against women. If you are afraid that this book will portray women as inevitable victims of the British judicial system and portray men as sexists, start reading this book now because this is something completely different! Rape complainants are let down by a largely pale, male, stale judiciary that has struggled to keep up with changing sexual mores – don’t expect a conviction if you’re raped on a Tinder date, warns the QC. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

But being a feminist reading of the law, she obviously also discusses how female criminals are vilified far more than men for committing a crime, a 'masculine' act which involves transgressing the boundaries of what is expected of women in society.

Happy to see that many of Kennedy's suggestions for reform have been taken up, albeit a decade or 2 late.See our Remarkables Archive for some that are no longer in print, but which we are happy to try to track down. Overall, a very interesting book and a much needed female perspective on how the justice system impacts women. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable co6ndition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Read this after I saw Amber Heard read it, and while it took some getting used to the extremely episodic writing style and having to pause and look up a lot of British history referenced (being American), I thought it gave excellent perspective of the challenges women face in the court system due to "feminine stereotyping"--and not JUST women since different stereotypes affect different subsets of people who all suffer if they don't fit into the established "box.