Exploiting the Limits of Law

Contents
List of Contributors vii
List of Tables ix
Preface xi
1 Reflecting the Epistemology of Law – Exploiting
Boundaries 1
Åsa Gunnarsson, Eva-Maria Svensson and Margaret Davies
2 Boundary-Work in Legal Scholarship 17
Eva-Maria Svensson
3 An Apparent Boundary Between Law and Politics 51
Åsa Persson
4 Legal Texts as Discourses 69
Johanna Niemi-Kiesiläinen, Päivi Honkatukia and Minna Ruuskanen
5 Beyond Constructed Boundaries in Criminal Law Discourse 89
Monica Burman
6 Children Crossing Borders – On Child Perspectives in the
S wedish Aliens Act and the Limits of Law 105
Eva Nilsson
7 Challenging the Heteronormativity of Law 127
Görel Granström
8 Social Insurance Law – The Core of Swedish Welfare Law 141
Ruth Mannelqvist
9 Challenging one Fundamental Norm in Labour Law – The
E xception of the Employer’s Family and Home 153
Catharina Calleman
10 Exclusion of Solo Mothers in the Welfare State 171
Lena Wennberg
11 Gender Equality and the Diversity of Rights and Obligations
in Swedish Social Citizenship 191
Åsa Gunnarsson
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12 N otes Towards an Optimistic Feminism: A Long View 213
Margaret Davies
Index 231