Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs?

• Main Author: Scutt, Jocelynne A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: History.; Europe > History—476-1492.; Social history.; World politics.; Law.; Law > Philosophy.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social History.; History of Medieval Europe.; Political History.; Law, general.; Gender Studies.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Are women equal? Do women have equal rights? Have women's campaigns for justice, access to law, property ownership and child custody rights, and rights to bodily and psychic integrity, won women advances? When women fought for the right to vote, to be on juries, to be independent beings entitle...