Thompson, Sharon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2569-856X and Sandberg, Russell ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4310-9677
2018.
Multicultural jurisdictions: The need for a feminist approach to law and religion.
Sandberg, Russell, ed.
Leading Works in Law and Religion,
London:
Routledge,
pp. 179-196.
(10.4324/9780429401015-13)
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Abstract
This chapter explores the need for a feminist approach to Law and Religion through considering Ayelet Shachar’s Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights as a leading work. On account of it being discussed during Rowan Williams’ infamous lecture on ‘Civil and Religious Law in England’ , Shachar’s book is widely cited. Our chapter shows, however, that Shachar’s diagnosis of the situation shows what a feminist approach to Law and Religion could achieve, ironically Shachar’s proposed solution of transformative accommodation suffers from many of the defects she is rightly critical of. We suggest instead that a feminist approach, derived from Thompson’s previous work on prenuptial agreements, can provide a way forward. More generally, the chapter suggests that a feminist approach provides one way in which the Law and Religion field could be developed and rejuvenated.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Schools > Law |
| Subjects: | K Law > KD England and Wales |
| Additional Information: | Copyright Year 2019 |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9781138244467 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2022 07:03 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/114008 |
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