Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice

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Two women on a journey to answer the question “Where’s the Sex Ed class 2.0 for your twenties through your adult life?”

When you hear Women’s Health, is it only reproductive organs and, maybe, breast health, that come to mind? Defining women’s health solely through the lens of gynecological or reproductive health is too narrow. Embracing a broader definition which includes how diseases impact women differently, how the healthcare system treats women differently, and the pink tax we pay. And on that subject, what she is trying to tell you is perfectly argued. This novel might be slightly out of date in its citing of laws passed ten years ago, especially when legal precedent is constantly changing, but generally, what was true then is still true now (unfortunately). While it doesn't take into account recent improvements in legal training and police handling of many legal cases, it pretty much sums up the poor treatment women experience in the British Justice system in a succinct and entertaining way. Profiles of companies doing interesting work in Women’s Health. The innovation going on right now is nothing short of inspirational and desperately needed. What sort is this God? First [God] envied Adam that he should eat from the tree of knowledge…. And afterward [God] said, Let us cast him out of this place, lest he eat of the tree of life and live for ever.” Surely [God] has shown himself to be a malicious envier. (Kripal 1) Wonder why you don’t see ads about breastfeeding workshops and pelvic floor devices in your social media feeds? It’s not your algorithm or theirs. Those ads are more likely to get rejected and accounts suspended. Yes, even though ads on ererctidle dysfunction make their way through. ( from The Hustle)Ancient, alienating tradition continues into the courtroom, with wigs, robes and pompous jargon designed to make the defendant feel uncomfortable. If I were to discuss the book purely based on its content, I'd reach the harsh conclusion that it could have been better. That's not to say the book is not worth reading since it contains its more than fair share of 'inside stories', analysis and theoretical accounts. This book will explain to you how the British Justice system fails women. Helena Kennedy QC (Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, QC) uses an approachable vocabulary that makes sense to those without legal knowledge. In the book, she explains the basics of the work of the British law courts, hence I recommend this book to everyone interested in politics, feminism, and to everyone who wants to research the problem of inequality. Such brief basics will be helpful to a first-year law student since it helps you to approach law in a more rounded way. I started sharing my thoughts with Steph. She was excited to join me in solving the question “Where’s my Sex Ed 2.0 class?” With that Eve Was Framed was born. Caroline Criado Perez is a writer and feminist activist. Her new book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men , will be published by Chatto & Windus in March.

Spotlights will be a place to hear personal journeys in health and wellness of women like you. We’ll be sharing how you can participate and share your story shortly As a survivor myself I found the sections about sexual violence particularly illuminating and infuriating. There is still a troubling, largely unconscious, perception that entitlement to a woman's body is something that can be debated. Here is a quote from the House of Lords during the reading debate of the Sexual Offences Act: The first time I heard the term pelvic floor, I thought to myself. Do I have one? Or do I need to get one? If I have one, do I need to get it refinished from time to time? Where is it?!?In particular, I enjoyed Kennedy’s imaginary court procedure: Eve is being tried for causing of the Fall of Man because she ate from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden. Kennedy envisages the speech for the prosecution, the defence’s response, and wittily comments “transportation from Paradise is one thing, but a sentence of eternal damnation when the conviction has to be based on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-accused must surely constitute a breach of human rights!” Kennedy more or less fell into the law and the training for the Bar could only have been less hospitable to her if she hadn't been white. At the Inns of Court, she describes an overwhelmingly male and overtly misogynistic environment steeped in bizarre ritual. The percentage of women in the profession was small and confined to the lower ranks, with hardly any women ascending to the bench (becoming judges). The statistics were even more dire for people of colour whether female or male. Pharmacokinetics is the branch of pharmacology dealing with a drug’s journey through the body. It has 4 stages: Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion. Studies show these stages are affected by gender which should inform dosage, instructions (take with food or not), and side effects. Interestingly, she suggests that the way to achieve equality is for the law to recognise that most women experience very different lives to men and that it should adjust accordingly. This really got me thinking about how we should deal with inequality in the law. Although it is clear that there is injustice, the solutions to this are not always obvious. Remember also that the non-canonical, Gnostic text The Testimony of Truth criticized God as a “malicious envier” for punishing Adam and Eve for eating from the tree of knowledge — which is basically criticizing God (as depicted in the story) for playing the role of every controlling authority figure who has unsuccessfully tried to repress adolescent rebellion in countless teenage film, dramas, and books.

But women don’t have confidence in the justice system. And going by the litany of horrors that Kennedy details in this relentless, often disturbing book, no wonder.Along these lines, in a 1784 essay, the philosopher Immanuel Kant said that the motto of the Enlightenment — that time of challenge established norms through the power of human reason (“human knowledge”) — was “Dare to Know!” And through the lens of the Genesis story, we can hear that Enlightenment motto as another form of the serpent’s hiss: “Take and eat of what you know to be true.”

Medical term of the week is a word or phrase we learned recently to expand our vocabulary and knowledge The tone of the book is chatty and informal, the vocabulary is complex at times but nothing a dictionary can’t fix, and overall this book gave me a true appreciation of justice as opposed to simply the letter of the law- I couldn’t recommend it enough. I don't usually read non-fiction. I find it dull and boring, and only really read it out of necessity. But in this book I found a kind of compromise. Two women on a mission to help more women learn about themselves and the companies working to put control of women’s health into our own hands through sharing our own personal journeys.The biblical creation myth at the beginning of the book of Genesis tells us that in the middle of the primordial Garden of Eden, God planted “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (2:9). And God commanded Adam, the archetypal first man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (2:16-17). We are told as well that God made woman, and “the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.” (2:25). I read this book during the summer before coming to Oxford and it has proved surprisingly useful in my studies so far. At the start, Kennedy warns that this book is not to be treated as an academic account but as a polemic, her own take on how our law fails women. However, while studying criminal law I found myself constantly drawing on her accounts of how women have been treated in famous cases and how our laws struggle to deal with female victims and defendants. For example, one of the first pieces of legislation you would study in criminal law as Law student at Oxford is the section of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 dealing with the partial defence to murder of loss of control. This was designed to help people who are victims of domestic violence and go on to kill their abusive partner. However, the courts continue to struggle to deal with this issue effectively. Kennedy details several well-known cases and gives her interpretation of how the courts have failed to adequately take the defendant’s situation into account. If you're afraid this book will just paint women as victims, as Eves who have been framed, don't be. She incriminates women as much as men and talks an equal share about female criminals as she does about female victims. 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.