| Feminist Perspectives on Land Law Contributor(s): Lim, Hilary (Editor), Bottomley, Anne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415420334 ISBN-13: 9780415420334 Publisher: Routledge Cavendish OUR PRICE: $90.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. The authors draw upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law, anthropology and geography to open up perspectives that go beyond the usually narrow topography and cartography of land law. Addressing an unorthodox variety of sites where questions of women's access and rights to land are raised, this book includes chapters on:
An interdisciplinary and enlivening account of feminist perspectives on land law, it is an excellent addition to the bookshelves of students and researchers in legal studies, gender studies, social anthropology and social geography. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Family Law - General - Law | Property - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 346.043 |
| LCCN: 2006033970 |
| Series: Feminist Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.36" W x 9.11" (1.08 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. The authors draw upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law, anthropology and geography to open up perspectives that go beyond the usually narrow topography and cartography of land law. Addressing an unorthodox variety of sites where questions of women's access and rights to land are raised, this book includes chapters on:
An interdisciplinary and enlivening account of feminist perspectives on land law, it is an excellent addition to the bookshelves of students and researchers in legal studies, gender studies, social anthropology and social geography. |