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

Author:   Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030634926


Pages:   153
Publication Date:   26 January 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Legal Capacity & Gender: Realising the Human Right to Legal Personhood and Agency of Women, Disabled Women, and Gender Minorities


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Author:   Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030634926


ISBN 10:   3030634922
Pages:   153
Publication Date:   26 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Right to legal capacity: Debates and legal argument.- 2. Personhood: perspectives from critical feminist, disability and queer studies.- 3. Gender, disability & decision-making: Historical discrimination.- 4. Gendered denials: Law, policy and practice.- 5. Vulnerability created by legal capacity denials.- 6. Creating change: Examples of modern reform and recommendations.

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Dr Anna Arstein-Kerslake is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She is the author of one of the first books on the right to legal capacity, Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She supported the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the drafting of their general comment on the right to equal recognition before the law and she has worked with domestic and international bodies around the world on law and policy reform towards the realisation of the right to legal capacity.

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