Legal Capacity & Gender: Realising the Human Right to Legal Personhood and Agency of Women, Disabled Women, and Gender Minorities

by Anna Arstein-Kerslake

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This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual's legal capacity. It discusses the meaning of the right to legal capacity and its two core elements - legal personhood and legal agency. It then analyses historical and modern denials of personhood and agency experienced by women, disabled women, and gender minorities - for example, prohibitions from voting, limitations on contracting, loss of personhood...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3030634922

ISBN13:9783030634926

Release Date:January 2021

Publisher:Springer

Length:153 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Law Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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