Feminist perspectives on land law
By: edited by Hilary Lim and Anne Bottomley.
Contributors: Bottomley, Anne.; Lim, Hilary.
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781859418062; 9780415420334
Subjects: Real property; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc; Feminist theory
Description: "Feminist Perspectives on Land Law draws upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law, anthropology and geography to open up perspectives that go beyond the usually narrow topography and cartography of land law. Addressing an unorthodox variety of sites where questions of women's access and rights to land are raised, this book includes chapters on shopping malls, ancient monuments, nature reserves and housing estates, as well as a consideration of the more conventional location of feminist debate in this area, the family home. The gendered analysis of land use and ownership that is pursued here focuses not only on England and Wales, but also reaches out to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Feminist perambulations : taking the law for a walk in land / Anne Bottomley and Hilary Lim; title: National nature reserves : nature as other confined / Sue Elworthy; title: Ancient monuments of national importance : symbols of whose past? / Penny English; title: A trip to the mall : revisiting the public/private divide / Anne Bottomley; title: Scapegoating and the legal landscape : homeless women and the law / Rosy Thornton; title: Women's work : locating gender in the discourse of anti-social behaviour / Helen Carr; title: Women travellers and the paradox of the settled nomad / Margaret Greenfields and Robert Home; title: 'Land doesn't come from your mother, she didn't make it with her hands?' : challenging matriliny in Papua New Guinea / Melissa Demian; title: Unfair shares for women : the rhetoric of equality and the reality of inequality / Rosemary Auchmuty; title: The shared home : a rational solution through statutory reform? / Simone Wong; title: Networking resources : a gendered perspective on Kwena women's property rights / Anne Griffiths; title: Accidental Islamic feminism : dialogical approaches to Muslim women's inheritance rights / Hilary Lim and Siraj Sait.