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

by Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Book Overview

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"