1st Edition

Feminist Perspectives on Land Law

Edited By Hilary Lim, Anne Bottomley Copyright 2007
324 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

324 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

324 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. The authors draw upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law, anthropology and geography to open up... Read more

Feminist Perambulations: Taking the Law for a Walk in Land.  National Nature Reserves: Nature as Other Confined.  Ancient Monuments of National Importance: Symbols of Whose Past?  A Trip to the Mall: Revisiting the Public/Private Divide.  Scapegoating and the Legal Landscape: Homeless Women and the Law.  Women’s Work: Locating Gender in the Discourse of Anti-social Behaviour.  Women Travellers and the Paradox of the Settled Nomad.  ‘Land Doesn't Come From Your Mother, She Didn’t Make it With Her Hands’: Challenging Matriliny in Papua New Guinea.  Unfair Shares for Women: The Rhetoric of Equality and the Reality of Inequality.  The Shared Home: A Rational Solution Through Statutory Refrom?  Networking Resources: A Gendered Perspective on Kwena Women’s Property Rights.  Accidental Islamic Feminism: Dialogical Approaches to Muslim Women’s Inheritance Rights

Biography

Hilary Lim is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Law, University of East London. Anne Bottomley is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent.