Gender and Law in Comparison
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Organizer Name
Linda E. Mitchell
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City
Presider Name
Linda E. Mitchell
Paper Title 1
Women Using the Law to Escape Forced Marriage in Late Medieval England
Presenter 1 Name
Sarah Jean Crawford
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Sydney
Paper Title 2
Conjugal Rights Re-imagined through Female Sentence in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls
Presenter 2 Name
Jessica D. Ward
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of North Carolina-Greensboro
Start Date
16-5-2015 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2040
Description
This session, commemorating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in England, will focus especially on gendering in English, Continental, Canon, Celtic, and Civil private law. In particular, legal issues having to do with marriage and remarriage; dowry, dower, and rights of survivorship; inheritance; and general land and other forms of property law, as well as litigation and legal procedure, will be considered.
Dorothy Kim
Gender and Law in Comparison
Fetzer 2040
This session, commemorating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in England, will focus especially on gendering in English, Continental, Canon, Celtic, and Civil private law. In particular, legal issues having to do with marriage and remarriage; dowry, dower, and rights of survivorship; inheritance; and general land and other forms of property law, as well as litigation and legal procedure, will be considered.
Dorothy Kim