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Women, Law and Culture

Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict

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Editors:
  1. Jocelynne A. Scutt

    1. University of Buckingham , Buckingham, United Kingdom

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  • Offers contributions from a wide range of theoretical disciplines: gender studies, women's studies, law, media studies, anthropology and sociology
  • Offers an authoritative international viewpoint on the treatment of women in society
  • Questions the intersectional position of women in different cultures around the world

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 1-14

  3. Identity & Representation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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  6. Bodily & Psychic Integrity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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  7. Bodily & Psychic Integrity

    1. ‘For the Husband Is the Head of the Wife’: Ephesians 5

      • Patmalar Ambikapathy Thuraisingham
      Pages 205-220

    2. Why Does He Abuse? Why Does She Stay?

      • Cathryn Goodchild
      Pages 221-238

    3. Commodification of Women and Girls at Home: The Festering of India’s Male Violence

      • Lynette J. Dumble
      Pages 239-262

    4. Seeking Equality—Justice and Women’s and Girls’ Human Right Not to Be Subjected to Non-State Torture

      • Jeanne Sarson, Linda MacDonald
      Pages 263-281

    5. Conclusion

      • Jocelynne A. Scutt
      Pages 283-301
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This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict.


Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women – whatever their country and social and economic status – this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women’s and gender studies and media studies. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Buckingham , Buckingham, United Kingdom

    Jocelynne A. Scutt

About the editor

Jocelynne A. Scutt is a Barrister and Human Rights Lawyer, member of the Inner Temple (London) and Victorian Bar (Melbourne), and Visiting Professor and Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK, where she teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, and Sex, Gender and Minorities in Law.

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