By Shere Hite
ISBN-10: 1909807419
ISBN-13: 9781909807419
Publish 12 months note: initially released April 2002
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Shere Hite's groundbreaking Hite reviews have had a profound and lasting impact. Hite writes right here for the 1st time approximately growing to be up in rural Missouri, the early feminist flow, her inner most lifestyles and sexual identification. She left the US to dwell in Europe as a result of a fundamentalist political backlash, renouncing her US citizenship in 1996 to develop into German.
The 4 Hite stories, exhibiting an expanding intensity to her arguable theories, acquired quite a few educational awards and honours.
>The preliminary Hite document used to be named as one of many a hundred key books of the 20 th century by way of the days.
>This most modern Hite file additionally contains destiny predictions of latest cultural developments world wide.
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While the law is established by a political authority and backed by state power, it is none the less generally sanctioned by the society in which it operates, and is reflective of normative behaviour. Property, Power and Women 43 In other words, while the legal system regulates the transfer of property, it generally reflects the dominant beliefs and values of the society in which it operates. While Locke presents the protection of private property by the state as the protection of a liberty, from the perspective of women in farming it is clearly the protection of an injustice.
Power relationships are open to change. The following chapters detail change that has occurred, and also identify possibilities for change. 3 Property, Power and Women INTRODUCTION In the last chapter, I argued that property is a central source of power in farming. In this chapter I want to turn more specifically to an analysis of property, and in particular look at how a general acceptance of Locke’s notion of private property is still current today, and affects women’s relationship with land.
The gendered nature of land transfer and ownership is less of a concern, even though women’s relationship to property fundamentally shapes their farming lives. Within any family farm, the cultural norms of land transfer mean that the owners and non-owners, and the potential owners and non-owners, are fractured on the basis of gender. Access to property is not without costs. , 1990). This had implications for the heir and also the 40 Women and Farming structure of agriculture more generally (Commins and Kelleher, 1973).
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