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A brief exanxination of legal history in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-centuq~
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | This chapter engages in an analysis of the space occupied by the state and the range of it!; intervention at the sites of gender politics. These sites are ideologically dil'fuse and constitute women's economics that derive from the converging materialities of caste, ethnicity, religion, class and economy. They operate as spatial metaphors in the sphere of labour and in the constellation of kinship structures, and are established as defining categories in the institution of the family through customary practices, affective and relational t:ntitlements, and functional locations. The legislative power invested in the state enables state agency in women's issues although it is substantially directed by the "traditional" determinants of gender ideology. (Yet it is dficult to specify a simple equivalence between law and social practice.] Thus women are caught up in the contradictions and intersections of a n ~ m b e r of sets of conflicting authorities and power relations in which the law is a co-partner. And to speak of citizenship and women in the same breath is to invoke a discourse through which women are produced and constructed by "the ultimate in masculine and paternal protection, the law and the state" (Threadgold 160). |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
