ISBN:
978-0-2032-1574-6
,
0-203-21586-9
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 233 Seiten).
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
1800-1999
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1800-1990
;
Geschichte 1700-1910
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Women / Government policy / History / 19th century
;
Women / Legal status, laws, etc / History / 19th century
;
Women / Government policy / History / 20th century
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Women / Legal status, laws, etc / History / 20th century
;
Women / legislation & jurisprudence
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Femmes / Politique gouvernementale / Histoire / 19e siècle
;
Femmes / Droit / Histoire / 19e siècle
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Femmes / Politique gouvernementale / Histoire / 20e siècle
;
Femmes / Droit / Histoire / 20e siècle
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Women / Government policy
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Women / Legal status, laws, etc
;
Vrouwen
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Mensenrechten
;
Overheidsbeleid
;
Women
;
Social conditions
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Electronic books
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History
Abstract:
Sexuality, motherhood and marriage were matters of public policy throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were prominent areas in the regulation of women, but the idea that the law merely reflected what was normal and natural obscured the extent of this regulation. Regulating Womanhood poses historically and culturally specific questions about the mechanisms that have controlled and restricted women. It shows not merely how laws and policies have set boundaries to the lives of women but also how the category of 'woman' has been constructed as a specific object for legal and social policy, and how women came to be seen as needing 'special' regulation. In addition, Regulating Womanhood explores how children and the organisation of reproduction and sexuality operated to normalise and make acceptable the degree of regulation to which women were subjected. Yet this is not a catalogue of the unmitigated subjection of women in history. The contributors focus on women's resistance and activity, and on the shift in modes of regulation, to challenge the idea of an unchanging history of the legal oppression of women
Note:
First published 1992
DOI:
10.4324/9780203215746
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
