Legal Capacity Gender
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Legal Capacity Gender
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Author : Anna Arstein-Kerslake
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-25
Legal Capacity Gender written by Anna Arstein-Kerslake and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-25 with Law categories.
This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual’s legal capacity. It discusses the meaning of the right to legal capacity and its two core elements – legal personhood and legal agency. It then analyses historical and modern denials of personhood and agency experienced by women, disabled women, and gender minorities – for example, prohibitions from voting, limitations on contracting, loss of personhood upon marriage, and gender binary requirements leading to an inability to exercise legal capacity, among others. Using critical feminist, disability, and queer theory, this book also offers insights into the construction of legal personhood and its role as a predictor of power and privilege. The book identifies patterns of oppression through legal capacity denial in various jurisdictions and discusses situations in which modern law continues to enforce these denials. In addition, the book presents solutions: it identifies practices to learn from in various jurisdictions around the world – including both civil law and common law jurisdictions. It also uses case studies to illustrate the ways in which existing laws, policies and practices could be reformed. As such, the book offers both a novel contribution to the field of legal capacity law and a tool for creating change and helping to realise the right to legal capacity for all.
Legal Capacity Gender
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Author : Anna Arstein-Kerslake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Legal Capacity Gender written by Anna Arstein-Kerslake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual's legal capacity. It discusses the meaning of the right to legal capacity and its two core elements - legal personhood and legal agency. It then analyses historical and modern denials of personhood and agency experienced by women, disabled women, and gender minorities - for example, prohibitions from voting, limitations on contracting, loss of personhood upon marriage, and gender binary requirements leading to an inability to exercise legal capacity, amoung others. Using critical feminist, disability, and queer theory, this book also offers insights into the construction of legal personhood and its role as a predictor of power and privilege. The book identifies patterns of oppression through legal capacity denial in various jurisdictions and discusses situations in which modern law continues to enforce these denials. In addition, the book presents solutions: it identifies practices to learn from in various jurisdictions around the world - including both civil law and common law jurisdictions. It also uses case studies to illustrate the ways in which existing laws, policies and practices could be reformed. As such, the book offers both a novel contribution to the field of legal capacity law and a tool for creating change and helping to realise the right to legal capacity for all.
Empowering Women
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Author : Mary Hallward-Driemeier
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2012-10-04
Empowering Women written by Mary Hallward-Driemeier and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Social Science categories.
This book provides compelling evidence from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries that gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed in terms of substance, enforcement, awareness, and access if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa are to continue to expand.
The Social And Legal Status Of Women
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Author : Winnie Hazon
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1990-07-26
The Social And Legal Status Of Women written by Winnie Hazon and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-07-26 with Social Science categories.
This book delves into the legal traditions that relegated women to an inferior social and legal status worldwide. Winnie Hazou probes the nature of law, changes in legislation, and the trend of modern law toward a social engineering that effects gender equality. Hazou analyzes changes in major areas of women's lives, such as family, employment, and the acquisition of social power. She presents a global perspective of women's status and discusses international law aimed at eliminating the exploitation and abuse of women. The book highlights five countries, exploring the cultural basis for and social attitudes toward the position of women in each country. Students and scholars of women's studies will find this book a valuable resource. The book concludes that both national and international law are slowly evolving into an effective tool for the elimination of discrimination against women. In spite of residual traditions, and beliefs across all cultures concerning gender roles, there is great institutional support in governments as well as the United Nations to elevate the status of women. This book combines the sociology of women and the sociology of law to give a global perspective on not only the current position of women but the changes that are occurring in their lives.
Advancing The Legal Status Of Women In Islamic Law
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Author : Mona Samadi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Advancing The Legal Status Of Women In Islamic Law written by Mona Samadi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Law categories.
Mona Samadi examines the sources of gender differences within the Islamic tradition, with particular focus on guardianship, and describes the opportunities and challenges for advancing the legal status of women.
The Constitutional And Legal Rights Of Women
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Author : Judith A. Baer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2006
The Constitutional And Legal Rights Of Women written by Judith A. Baer and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Sex discrimination against women categories.
Rev. ed. of: The constitutional rights of women / Leslie Friedman Goldstein. New ed., rev. and updated., 2nd ed. 1988.
Law And The Status Of Women In Kenya
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Author : Kivutha Kibwana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Law And The Status Of Women In Kenya written by Kivutha Kibwana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Women categories.
Women Business And The Law 2014
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Author : International Finance Corporation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Women Business And The Law 2014 written by International Finance Corporation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
In the past 50 years women's legal status has improved all over the world. But many laws still make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic life whether by getting jobs or starting businesses. Discriminatory rules bar women from certain jobs, restrict access to capital for women-owned firms and limit women's capacity to make legal decisions. Gender differences in laws affect both developing and developed economies, and women in all regions. Women, business, and the law measures restrictions on women s employment and entrepreneurship as well as incentives for women s employment in 143 economies. Women, business, and the law and the World Bank's global financial inclusion global findings database show that in economies with a default full community of property regime, there are on average 10 percentage points more female owned accounts at formal financial institutions than in economies with a default separation of property regime. This report has shown that although much progress has been made in recent decades in gradually dismantling many of the legal restrictions which have hampered women from more fully contributing to national prosperity, there is a large unfinished agenda of reform. Gender equality is important not only for fairness and equity, but also for economic efficiency and is at the center of creating a more prosperous world.
The Legal Status Of Intersex Persons
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Author : Jens M. Scherpe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Legal Status Of Intersex Persons written by Jens M. Scherpe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Intersex people categories.
Until very recently, the legal gender of a person -- both at birth and later in life -- in virtually all jurisdictions had to be recorded as either male or female; most laws simply did not allow any other option. However, there are many cases where this gender binary is unable to capture the reality of a person's gender identity. In 2013 Germany became the first Western jurisdiction in modern times to introduce legislation allowing a person's gender to be recorded as 'indeterminate' at birth and thus give them a legal gender status other than male or female. However, despite good intentions this legislation has proved problematic in many ways and is subject to pertinent criticism. Several other jurisdictions are now beginning to react to challenges to the gender binary. 'The Legal Status of Intersex Persons' provides a basis for discussions surrounding law reform in this area. It contains contributions from medical, psychological and theological perspectives as well as national legal perspectives from Germany, Malta, Australia, India, the Netherlands, Columbia, Sweden, France and the USA. It explores international human rights aspects of intersex legal recognition and features chapters on private international law and legal history.
Sociolegal Status Of Women In Indonesia Malaysia Philippines And Thailand
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Author : Asian Development Bank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Sociolegal Status Of Women In Indonesia Malaysia Philippines And Thailand written by Asian Development Bank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
Are laws the answer to achieving gender equality? What are the complex inter-actions of civil, religious, and customary laws that shape women's status? What are the ways in which laws reflect and reinforce social and cultural norms and expectations? Will the enactment of laws to protect and promote the rights of women result in improving the status of women in Asia? This publication provides a discussion of these complex issues and offers some answers to these questions.