Law, Family, and Women
Title | Law, Family, and Women PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Kuehn |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2015-08-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226457656 |
Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling image of the social processes that affected the shape and function of the law. The numerous law courts of Italian city-states constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the permutations of these laws, then examines their use by Florentines to arbitrate conflict and regulate social behavior regarding such issues as kinship, marriage, business, inheritance, illlegitimacy, and gender. Ranging from one man's embittered denunciation of his father to another's reaction to his kinsmen's rejection of him as illegitimate, Law, Family, and Women provides fascinating evidence of the tensions riddling family life in Renaissance Florence. Kuehn shows how these same tensions, often articulated in and through the law, affected women. He examines the role of the mundualdus—a male legal guardian for women—in Florence, the control of fathers over their married daughters, and issues of inheritance by and through women. An ambitious attempt to reformulate the agenda of Renaissance social history, Kuehn's work will be of value to both legal anthropologists and social historians. Thomas Kuehn is professor of history at Clemson University.
Women and the Law Stories
Title | Women and the Law Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth M. Schneider |
Publisher | Foundation Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781599415895 |
Softbound - New, softbound print book.
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 |
Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices
Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes
Title | Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes PDF eBook |
Author | Samia Bano |
Publisher | Brandeis University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2017-05-02 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1512600350 |
How mediation and religious dispute-resolution mechanisms operate within diverse communities
Women in Muslim Family Law
Title | Women in Muslim Family Law PDF eBook |
Author | John L. Esposito |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780815622789 |
Expands and updates family law as it pertains to women with regard to marriage, divorce and inheritance throughout the Middle East.This second revised edition of John L. Esposito's landmark work expands and updates coverage of family law reforms -- marriage, divorce, and inheritance -- throughout the Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Law, Family, and Women
Title | Law, Family, and Women PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Dispute resolution (Law) |
ISBN |
Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period
Title | Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Brownson |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2019-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081565474X |
In this volume, Brownson sheds new light on Palestinian Muslim women’s agency in shari‘a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Her extensive archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women’s position in the courts, demonstrating that Muslim women were and are active participants in their legal affairs. Using court registers and interviews, Brownson uncovers a variety of ways women have manipulated the system to their benefit despite its patriarchal bias. She also finds that few reforms were implemented during the Mandate period. The British were uninterested in improving colonized women’s legal status and sought to avoid further antagonizing Palestinians. At the same time, Palestinians wished to uphold the one indigenous institution they still controlled while both British rule and Zionism threatened their nationalist aspirations. Although Palestinian women have had few alternatives to using this male privileged system to redress grievances with their husbands and in-laws, they continue to resist its injustices every day. Brownson finds that women’s understanding of family law fundamentals has enabled some to deftly navigate the system; however, a unified, reformed law reflecting society's current needs is required so women can have full access to their rights.