Gottschalk Gender Difference in European Legal Cultures

Historical Perspectives. Essays presented to Heide Wunder
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-515-10359-6
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 261 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Law is a central element of social and political order – with it, power is institutionalized, actions are structured and sanctioned. Fundamental concepts of order are expressed and legitimised by law. This is especially true of gender difference. Until equal rights won out as the norm, differentiating legal capacities of persons by their gender meant assigning distinct forms of legally defined agency to men and women and to fix gender hierarchy. Nevertheless, even while formal equality is established throughout Europe since the 20th century, gender difference in law remains a precarious question. The present volume documents the fifth conference of the international research network "Gender Difference in the History of European Legal Cultures".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gottschalk, Karin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;10
3;GENDER DIFFERENCE IN THE HISTORY OF LAW;12
4;TRAVELLING WITH GENDER TO DIFFERENT LEGAL CULTURES;34
5;PART I: VIOLENCE, CONFESSIONALISATION, PROPERTY RIGHTS: FROM THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE DAWN OF MODERNITY;42
5.1;WOMEN IN COURT IN 14TH-CENTURY VENICE;44
5.2;THE INJURED BODY IN CONTEXT;58
5.3;THE AMBIVALENCE OF ORDER;72
5.4;‘UNSTABLE AND WEAK-MINDED’ OR A MISSIONARY?;84
5.5;BETWEEN LAW, GENDER AND CONFESSION;96
5.6;COMPARING LEGAL CULTURES WITH A PROBLEMORIENTED APPROACH;106
5.7;PROPERTY STATUS OF WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS IN THE 16TH CENTURY;118
5.8;CUSTOM AND LAW IN THE EARLY MODERN AEGEAN ISLANDS;128
5.9;WOMEN’S PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE WIDER MEDITERRANEAN;140
6;PART II: SCIENTIFICATION, INDUSTRIALISATION, EQUAL RIGHTS: CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY;154
6.1;THE EFFECT OF NON-JURIDICAL GENDER CONSTRUCTIONS ON LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS;156
6.2;OBJEKTIVITÄT UND DIE KATEGORIE GESCHLECHT IN DER GERICHTLICHEN MEDIZIN;176
6.3;WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO CHANGE GENDER STATUS?;188
6.4;THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION;198
6.5;GENDER DISPARITIES IN SOCIAL LAW;210
6.6;MISJUDGED AND UNDERESTIMATED;222
6.7;A GLIMPSE INTO THE PROMISED LAND OF THE LAW;236
6.8;DOWRY AND BUSINESS IN 20TH CENTURY AUSTRIA;246
7;ABSTRACTS;252
8;CONTRIBUTORS;260