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Feminist Perspectives on Land Law

Name: Feminist Perspectives on Land Law
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9780415420334
Price: 907.79 HKD
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Author: Hilary Lim; Anne Bottomley
ISBN: 9780415420334

Edited by Hilary Lim · Anne Bottomley

Routledge March 2007

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780415420334
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: March 2007
Format: Paperback , 328 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world.

The authors draw upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law, anthropology and geography to open up perspectives that go beyond the usually narrow topography and cartography of land law. Addressing an unorthodox variety of sites where questions of women's access and rights to land are raised, this book includes chapters on:

shopping malls
ancient monuments
nature reserves
housing estates
the family home.

An interdisciplinary and enlivening account of feminist perspectives on land law, it is an excellent addition to the bookshelves of students and researchers in legal studies, gender studies, social anthropology and social geography.

Feminist Perambulations: Taking the Law for a Walk in Land. National Nature Reserves: Nature as Other Confined. Ancient Monuments of National Importance: Symbols of Whose Past? A Trip to the Mall: Revisiting the Public/Private Divide. Scapegoating and the Legal Landscape: Homeless Women and the Law. Women’s Work: Locating Gender in the Discourse of Anti-social Behaviour. Women Travellers and the Paradox of the Settled Nomad. ‘Land Doesn't Come From Your Mother, She Didn’t Make it With Her Hands’: Challenging Matriliny in Papua New Guinea. Unfair Shares for Women: The Rhetoric of Equality and the Reality of Inequality. The Shared Home: A Rational Solution Through Statutory Refrom? Networking Resources: A Gendered Perspective on Kwena Women’s Property Rights. Accidental Islamic Feminism: Dialogical Approaches to Muslim Women’s Inheritance Rights