Overview
- Offers contributions from a wide range of theoretical disciplines: gender studies, women's studies, law, media studies, anthropology and sociology
- Offers an authoritative international viewpoint on the treatment of women in society
- Questions the intersectional position of women in different cultures around the world
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About this book
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.
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.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identity & Representation
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Front Matter
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Identity & Representation
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Space & Place
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Front Matter
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Bodily & Psychic Integrity
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Bodily & Psychic Integrity
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jocelynne A. Scutt is a Barrister and Human Rights Lawyer, member of the Inner Temple (London) and Victorian Bar (Melbourne), and Visiting Professor and Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK, where she teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, and Sex, Gender and Minorities in Law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Law and Culture
Book Subtitle: Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Editors: Jocelynne A. Scutt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44938-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44937-1Published: 24 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83167-1Published: 03 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44938-8Published: 17 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Critical Criminology, Criminological Theory, Gender Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law