Who Has Legal Rights?

Authors

  • Swantje Lichtenstein Köln

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/251

Keywords:

Diskurs, Gleichstellung, Macht, Recht, Soziokultureller Wandel, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

The connection between sexual difference and its juridicial consequences is examined more closely in this Viennese study. Even when the times of open discrimination seem to have subsided, inequality in the legal sphere still remains. Women’s incomes are still distinctly below those of men. The private sphere is still understood—also legally—as being genuinely feminine, whereas the public sphere is considered masculine. The questions considered in the volume regarding the just distribution of power stem from these issues. The interdependence of societal change and legal transformation is presented by Elisabeth Holzleithner on the basis of various discourses.

Published

2004-07-07

Issue

Section

Schwerpunkt