Gender difference in European legal cultures

Titel: Gender difference in European legal cultures : historical perspectives ; essays presented to Heide Wunder / edited by Karin Gottschalk
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Veröffentlicht: Stuttgart : Steiner, 2013
Umfang: 261 Seiten ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783515094092 ; 3515094091
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • p. 9
  • Gender Difference in the History of Law
  • p. 11
  • Travelling with Gender to Different Legal Cultures: The Story of a Network
  • p. 33
  • Part I
  • Violence, Confessionallsation, Property Rights: Form the Late Middle to the Dawn of Modernity
  • Women in Court in 14 th -Century Venice: The Meaning of "Equality" and "Rationality" in Written Law and in Court
  • p. 43
  • The Injured Body in Context: Outlines for a Legal History of Rape in Pre-Modern Europe (c. 1250-1750) in Cultural Perspective
  • p. 57
  • The Ambivalence of Order: Gender and Peace in Domestic Litigation in 18 th -Century Germany
  • p. 71
  • "Unstable and Weak-Minded" or a Missionary? Catholic Women in Mixed Marriages (1563-1798)
  • p. 83
  • Between Law, Gender and Confession: Jewish Matrimonial Law Provisions against the Background of Catholic and Protestant Regulations in Austria, 18 th and 19 th Centuries
  • p. 95
  • Comparing Legal Cultures with a Problem-Oriented Approach: The Case of Married Women's Property Rights
  • p. 105
  • Property Status of Widows and Widowers in the 16 th Century: Lithuania in a European Context
  • p. 117
  • Custom and Law in the Early Modern Aegean Islands: The Case of Marriage Payments
  • p. 127
  • Women's Property Rights in the Wider Mediterranean: Toward a Trans-Regional, Trans-Religious Approach
  • p. 139
  • Part II
  • Scientification, Industrialisation, Equal Rights: Challenges of Modernity
  • The Effect of Non-Juridical Gender Constructions on Legal Development: Some General Considerations through the Case of Abortion
  • p. 155
  • Objektivität und die Kategorie Geschlecht in der Gerichtlichen Medizin: Das Beispiel Kindsmord um 1900 (with English abstract)
  • p. 175
  • Who Has the Right to Change Gender Status? Drawing Boundaries between Inter- and Transsexuality, 1950-1980
  • p. 187
  • The Limits of Social Transformation: The Discussion of the Legal Status of Women in Germany, 1848-1871
  • p. 197
  • Gender Disparities in Social Law: The Treatment of Male and Female Pensioners by the Pension Insurance Institutions of the German "Kaiserreich"
  • p. 209
  • Misjudged and Underestimated: The Claims of the Bund deutscher Frauenvereine concerning Matrimonial Property Law, 1918-1933
  • p. 221
  • A Glimpse into the Promised Land of the Law: 20 th -Century German Jewesses and Their Fragile Acceptance into the International Legal Discipline
  • p. 235
  • Dowry and Business in 20 th -Century Austria
  • p. 245
  • Abstracts
  • p. 251
  • Contributors
  • p. 259