Engendering Law (treatise on Women and Law).
Author: Amita Dhanda
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788170129530
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Published: 2007
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ISBN-13: 9788170129530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rachel Adler
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999-09-10
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780807036198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 1998. How can women's full participation transform Jewish law, prayer, sexuality, and marriage? What does it mean to "engender" Jewish tradition? Pioneering theologian Rachel Adler gives this timely and powerful question its first thorough study in a book that bristles with humor, passion, intelligence, and deep knowledge of traditional biblical and rabbinic texts.
Author: Amita Dhanda
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788170129547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lotika Sarkar, b. 1923, feminist legal scholar; contributed articles
Author: O. Nnaemeka
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1137043822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engendering Human Rights brings together distinguished scholars and feminist activists in a collection of essays on human rights in Africa. Contributors explore the formulating, monitoring, reporting, and implementation of human rights in Africa and the African Diaspora. The individual chapters examine how human rights frameworks and practices differ in various political, economic, social, cultural, racial and gendered contexts througout Africa.
Author: Arlene J. Diaz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780803217225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela examines the effects that liberalism had on gender relations in the process of state formation in Caracas from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century. The 1811 Venezuelan constitution granted everyone in the abstract, including women, the right to be citizens and equals, but at the same time permitted the continued use of older Spanish civil laws that accorded women inferior status and granted greater authority to male heads of households. Invoking citizenship for their own protection and that of their loved ones, some women went to court to claim the same civil liberties and protections granted to male citizens. In the late eighteenth century, colonial courts dispensed some protection to women in their conflicts with men; a century later, however, patriarchal prerogatives were reaffirmed in court sentences. Discouraging as this setback was, the actions of the women who had fought these legal battles raised an awareness of the discrepancies between the law and women?s daily lives, laying the groundwork for Venezuelan women?s organizations in the twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, historian Arlene D�az shows how the struggle for political power in the modern state reinforced and reproduced patriarchal authority. She also reveals how Venezuelan women from different classes, in public and private, coped strategically with their paradoxical status as equal citizens who nonetheless lacked power because of their gender. Shedding light on a fundamental but little examined dimension of modern nation building, Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela gives voice to historic Venezuelan women while offering a detailed look at a society making the awkward transition from the colonial world to a modern one.
Author: Lynn Savery
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0415428777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring why some states have been slower to incorporate the international diffusion of women's human rights norms domestically than other human rights norms, this book looks at the theoretical and practical implications and a variety of case studies.
Author: Anna-Karina Hermkens
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people's identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use. This book describes in detail how barkcloth (tapa) not only visualizes and expresses, but also materializes and defines, people's multiple identities. By 'following the object' and how it is made and used in the performance of life-cycle rituals, in exchanges and in church festivities, this interaction between people and things, and how they are mutually constituted, becomes visible. How are women's bodies and minds linked with the production of barkcloth? How do cloths produced by women both establish and contest clan identity? In what ways is the commodification of barkcloth related to gender dynamics? Barkcloth and its associated designs show how gender ideologies and the socio-material constructions of identity are performed and, as such, developed, established and contested. The narratives of both men and women reveal the ways in which barkcloth provides a link with the past and dreams for the future. The author argues that the cloths and their designs embody dynamics of Maisin culture and in particular of Maisin gender relations. In contributing to the current debates on the anthropology of 'art', this study offers an alternative way of understanding the significance of an object, like decorated barkcloth, in shaping and defining people's identities within a local colonial and postcolonial setting of Papua New Guinea.
Author: Ian Haney Lopez
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006-10
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0814736947
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Author: Anne Phillips
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0745668178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Democracy is the central political issue of our age, yet debates over its nature and goals rarely engage with feminist concerns. Now that women have the right to vote, they are thought to present no special problems of their own. But despite the seemingly gender-neutral categories of individual or citizen, democratic theory and practice continues to privilege the male. This book reconsiders dominant strands in democratic thinking - focusing on liberal democracy, participatory democracy, and twentieth century versions of civic republicanism - and approaches these from a feminist perspective. Anne Phillips explores the under-representation of women in politics, the crucial relationship between public and private spheres, and the lessons of the contemporary women's movement as an experience in participatory democracy.