Women, law and culture : conformity, contradiction and conflict / Jocelynne A. Scutt, editor.

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Women, law and culture : conformity, contradiction and conflict / Jocelynne A. Scutt, editor.

9783319449388
3319449389
9783319449371
3319449370

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

English

1 online resource (xvii, 319 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-44938-8 doi

K487.C8 W66 2016

340.115

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.

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