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Gender and Law, an Intercultural Approach on Laws When They Aim at Ruling Women’s Body

Version 1 : Received: 9 December 2023 / Approved: 11 December 2023 / Online: 11 December 2023 (08:21:43 CET)

How to cite: FRACCHIOLLA, B. Gender and Law, an Intercultural Approach on Laws When They Aim at Ruling Women’s Body. Preprints 2023, 2023120670. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0670.v1 FRACCHIOLLA, B. Gender and Law, an Intercultural Approach on Laws When They Aim at Ruling Women’s Body. Preprints 2023, 2023120670. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0670.v1

Abstract

This work is the result of a two-year research leave (French CNRS delegation) with field research in France, India and England, based on a total of 36 interviews in the three countries. The aim of this publication is to discuss how the laws of different countries deal with gender and what representations the laws reveal about gender roles in the societies they regulate through discourses. For example, France, England and India have laws that are more or less specific about gender roles in society: the language used to express the laws also fulfils gender roles while affecting people’s everyday lives. The whole issue of gender and rights is about the presumed and desired equality of rights for women and men, and the way in which this corresponds to the reality of women’s and men’s lives. Indeed, laws are necessary to regulate human relations in society. For example, anti-discrimination laws exist to protect and regulate these relationships in a common space, to regulate and combat abuse. The emphasis on gender – including gender roles – and LGBTQ+ people shows that this phenomenon is understood and experienced differently in global practice. Our examples in this publication focus on France and India.

Keywords

forensic linguistics; gender studies; discourse analyses; legal consciousness studies; intercultural studies; intersectionality variations; India; France; women’s rights; textual analysis of speeches

Subject

Social Sciences, Language and Linguistics

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