Women's Rights and Islam in Turkish politics: The Civil Code Amendment

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yesim Arat
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Turkish Politics

Women in Enlightenment and Revolution and their Position in the First Modern Civil Codes

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-122
Author(s):  
Dorothea Wayand
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
Male Supremacy ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractWomen did not gain from the Revolution or the Enlightenment as men did. Seeking the cause for this, the paper concentrates upon the period of 1770–1810, and the area of Central and Western Europe. It is found that during the French Revolution a number of persons, mostly women, did fight on behalf of women's rights to freedom and equality. However, even before the Revolution was over, they had lost what little they had gained earlier. With Napoleon's Civil Code, a modern code in many ways, the time-honoured supremacy of the male was reasserted. In Prussia, a less violent struggle went on about women's rights. It was fought by men on both sides and it was occasioned by the lengthy creative process which resulted in the first of the modern codes by 1796. It reflected a few of the arguments made in favour of women, but in principle it enshrined male supremacy. The Austrian Civil Code extended the recognition of female equality a bit further. Both German codes were influenced by Enlightened theories; however, they were unable to overcome the long-established principle of “natural” male dominance.

scholarly journals Márkus Dezső a nőkérdésről II.

DÍKÉ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-242
Author(s):  
Kinga Császár
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legal Practice

This paper shows the standpoints of the representatives of the legal practice about women’s legal status in Hungary between 1867 – 1918. The actuality of the examination was the fact that the drafts of the first Civil Code in Hungary (1900 –1928) were under editing at the same time. The articles about  alimony and jointure are described in this paper. The study shows the attitude of the members of the legal profession towards the extension of women’s rights and the significant contradictions in case law.

John Stuart Mill Translated by Siegmund Freud

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Women’S Rights

Freud's translation of J.S. Mill involved an encounter with the traditions of British empirical philosophy and associationist psychology, both of which go back to Locke and Hume. The translation of Mill's essay on Plato also brought Freud into contact with the philosophical controversy between the advocates of intuition and faith and the advocates of perception and reason. A comparison of source and translated texts demonstrates Freud's faithfulness to his author. A few significant deviations may be connected with Freud's ambiguous attitude to women's rights, as advocated in the essay The Enfranchisement of Women. Stylistically Freud had nothing to learn from Mill. His model in English was Macaulay, whom he was also reading at this period.

The Transnational Women's Rights Movement and the World Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi E. Rademacher
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Small Body ◽  
World System ◽  
World Society ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Society Perspective ◽  
The Impact

Promoting the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was a key objective of the transnational women's movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet, few studies examine what factors contribute to ratification. The small body of literature on this topic comes from a world-society perspective, which suggests that CEDAW represented a global shift toward women's rights and that ratification increased as international NGOs proliferated. However, this framing fails to consider whether diffusion varies in a stratified world-system. I combine world-society and world-systems approaches, adding to the literature by examining the impact of women's and human rights transnational social movement organizations on CEDAW ratification at varied world-system positions. The findings illustrate the complex strengths and limitations of a global movement, with such organizations having a negative effect on ratification among core nations, a positive effect in the semiperiphery, and no effect among periphery nations. This suggests that the impact of mobilization was neither a universal application of global scripts nor simply representative of the broad domination of core nations, but a complex and diverse result of civil society actors embedded in a politically stratified world.

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