Anne Bottomley / Hilary Lim (eds.)

Feminist Perspectives on Land Law

Herausgeber: Lim, Hilary; Bottomley, Anne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge-Cavendish
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780415420334
• ISBN-10: 0415420334
• Artikelnr.: 22520835

Autorenporträt

Hilary Lim is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Law, University of East London. Anne Bottomley is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

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