Jocelynne Scutt

Women and The Magna Carta

A Treaty for Control or Freedom?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

On the eight-hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, Women and the Magna Carta investigates what the charter meant for women's rights and freedoms from an historical and legal perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-56234-0
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781137562340
• ISBN-10: 113756234X
• Artikelnr.: 44036168

Autorenporträt

Jocelynne A. Scutt is a barrister and human rights lawyer, Visiting Professor and Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK, and elected county councillor for Cambridgeshire. Her books include Women and the Law and The Incredible Woman: Power and Sexual Politics, The Sexual Gerrymander: Women and the Economics of Power, as well as the 'Women's Voices, Women's Lives' series.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Magna Carta: Women's Rights or Wrongs?
2. Are Women Persons?
3. Are Women Peers?
4. Can Women be Householders?
5. Women's Access to Law and Justice
6. No Taxation without Representation
7. Bring Up the Bodies
8. Conclusion: Claiming Magna Carta Rights