Women and the Magna Carta - A Treaty for Control Or Freedom?

Informationen zum Autor Jocelynne A. Scutt is a barrister and human rights lawyer, Visiting Professor and Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK, and elected county councillor for Cambridgeshire. Her books include Women and the Law and The Incredible Woman: Power and Sexual Politics, The Sexual Gerrymander: Women and the Economics of Power, as well as the 'Women's Voices, Women's Lives' series. Klappentext Are women equal? Do women have equal rights? Have women's campaigns for justice, access to law, property ownership and child custody rights, and rights to bodily and psychic integrity, won women advances? When women fought for the right to vote, to be on juries, to be independent beings entitled to jobs, income, equal pay and the right to industrial action, did Magna Carta mean anything? Albeit no women were at Runnymede in 1215, have women used Magna Carta to underpin their own struggles against the abuse of power, the denial of natural justice and human rights, and the right to be and be regarded as human? Spanning eight hundred years of women's rights denial and achievement, Women and The Magna Carta shows how far women have come – and how far there is yet to go. Can Magna Carta make a difference? Zusammenfassung On the eight-hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, Women and the Magna Carta investigates what the charter meant for women's rights and freedoms from an historical and legal perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Magna Carta: Women's Rights or Wrongs? 2. Are Women Persons? 3. Are Women Peers? 4. Can Women be Householders? 5. Women's Access to Law and Justice 6. No Taxation without Representation 7. Bring Up the Bodies 8. Conclusion: Claiming Magna Carta Rights

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• Authors: Na Lamm, Jocelynne Scutt, Jocelynne A. Scutt
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9781137562340
• ISBN: 978-1-137-56234-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; C, Gender Studies, Education, Sociology, History: specific events & topics, Law, Social History, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtstheorie und Rechtsphilosophie, Political science & theory, Political History, Law, general, Gender studies, gender groups, World Politics, Law—Philosophy, Methods, theory & philosophy of law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Methods, theory and philosophy of law