Women, Law and Culture

Women, Law and Culture
Title Women, Law and Culture PDF eBook
Author Jocelynne A. Scutt
Publisher Springer
Pages 325
Release 2017-02-17
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3319449389

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This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict. Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women – whatever their country and social and economic status – this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women’s and gender studies and media studies.

Victim No More

Victim No More
Title Victim No More PDF eBook
Author Ellen Faulkner
Publisher Fernwood Publishing
Pages 228
Release 2009
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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This book challenges the idea that women are simply victims of patriarchal systems of law, politics or culture. The editors argue that the usual descriptor within such systems of "woman-as-victim" serves not as an emancipatory rallying cry that encourages all women to join efforts in combating patriarchy. Rather, the label "victim" is, at its core, highly analogous to right-wing, conservative agendas that keep women politically passive. The authors of this edited collection celebrate the various forms of resistance that women exemplify at individual and collective levelsthat resistance to political, legal or cultural systems. This book explores the moments beyond victimization by arguing that women do not stay crushed and broken, but move on, build and grow. Book jacket.

Gender, Religion, and Family Law

Gender, Religion, and Family Law
Title Gender, Religion, and Family Law PDF eBook
Author Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Publisher UPNE
Pages 346
Release 2013
Genre Law
ISBN 1611683270

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Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices

Gender, Law, and Material Culture

Gender, Law, and Material Culture
Title Gender, Law, and Material Culture PDF eBook
Author Annette Caroline Cremer
Publisher
Pages 289
Release 2020-10-15
Genre Property
ISBN 9780367371791

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Gifts, symbolic values and strategies -- Women' s access to immobile property -- Women, law and property in colonial contexts -- Women and property in transitory zones -- Synthesis.

Feminist Legal Theory

Feminist Legal Theory
Title Feminist Legal Theory PDF eBook
Author Katherine Bartlett
Publisher Routledge
Pages 785
Release 2018-02-19
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0429980116

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This book offers powerful analyses of the relationship between law and gender and new understandings of the limits of, and opportunities for, legal reform drawn from the experiences of women and from critical perspectives developed within other disciplines.

Human Rights & Gender Violence

Human Rights & Gender Violence
Title Human Rights & Gender Violence PDF eBook
Author Sally Engle Merry
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 280
Release 2009-07-27
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0226520757

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Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. Providing legal and anthropological perspectives, Merry contends that human rights law must be framed in local terms to be accepted and effective in altering existing social hierarchies. Gender violence in particular, she argues, is rooted in deep cultural and religious beliefs, so change is often vehemently resisted by the communities perpetrating the acts of aggression. A much-needed exploration of how local cultures appropriate and enact international human rights law, this book will be of enormous value to students of gender studies and anthropology alike.

A Woman's Right to Culture

A Woman's Right to Culture
Title A Woman's Right to Culture PDF eBook
Author Linda L. Veazey
Publisher
Pages 148
Release 2015-11-03
Genre Law
ISBN 9781610273299

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'A Woman's Right to Culture' is a new and insightful analysis of the usual meme that cultural rights in international law are at odds with the rights of women in affected societies. Rather than seeing these concepts as mutually exclusive, Linda Veazey frames cultural rights -- through detailed case studies and analysis of law -- in a way that incorporates and enriches the very gender-protective norms they are often thought to defeat. Adding a Foreword by University of Southern California professor Alison Dundes Renteln, the study makes the case, and supports it with illustrations over several continents and cultures, that the only way out of the dilemma is to have a gendered conception of cultural rights. The book, writes Renteln, "provides a novel interpretation of women's human rights. This superb monograph written by political scientist and human rights advocate Dr. Linda Veazey is cutting-edge research in sociolegal scholarship concerning the status of global feminism." Renteln concludes that the author "shows convincingly that scholars and advocates must take greater care in analyzing policy debates in the light of competing international human rights claims. In her engaging work, Veazey makes an important contribution to legal theory, public law, feminist studies, political science, and human rights scholarship. Her fascinating analysis of the interrelationship between women's rights and cultural rights will undoubtedly be considered a classic. There is simply no book like it." A new and important book in international human rights and gender studies, from the independent academic press Quid Pro Books. Available worldwide in hardcover, paperback, and digital ebook editions."