New Perspectives on European Women's Legal History (Routledge Research in Gender and History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138805548 ISBN 13: 9781138805545

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book integrates women’s history and legal studies within the broader context of modern European history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sixteen contributions from fourteen countries explore the ways in which the law contributes to the social construction of gender. They analyze questions of family law and international law and highlight the politics of gender in the legal professions in a variety of historical, social and national settings, including Eastern, Southern, Western, Northern and Central Europe. Focusing on different legal cultures, they show us the similarities and differences in the ways the law has shaped the contours of women and men’s lives in powerful ways. They also show how women have used legal knowledge to struggle for their equal rights on the national and transnational level. The chapters address the interconnectedness of the history of feminism, legislative reforms, and women’s citizenship, and build a foundation for a comparative vision of women’s legal history in modern Europe.

About this title

About the Author:

Sara L. Kimble is a historian at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.

Marion Röwekamp is Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at UNAM and the Colegio de México in Mexico City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138805548
• ISBN 13: 9781138805545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 452
• Editor: Kimble Sara L., Röwekamp Marion