| Women, Law and Culture: Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Scutt, Jocelynne A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319449370 ISBN-13: 9783319449371 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 305.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.23 lbs) 319 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict. Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women - whatever their country and social and economic status - this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women's and gender studies and media studies. |