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Women and The Magna Carta, 1st ed. 2015
A Treaty for Control or Freedom?
Author: Scutt Jocelynne
Language: English
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Magna Carta; women's rights; history of law; gender history; gender; history; law; liberty; women
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Publication date: 12-2015
154 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Hardback
154 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Hardback
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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.
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
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
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.
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