Legal Capacity & Gender
Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Broschiertes Buch

Legal Capacity & Gender

Realising the Human Right to Legal Personhood and Agency of Women, Disabled Women, and Gender Minorities

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This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual's legal capacity. It discusses the meaning of the right to legal capacity and its two core elements - legal personhood and legal agency. It then analyses historical and modern denials of personhood and agency experienced by women, disabled women, and gender minorities - for example, prohibitions from voting, limitations on contracting, loss of personhood upon marriage, and gender binary requirements leading to an inability to exercise legal capacity, among others. Using critical feminist, disability, and queer theory, th...