Feminist Perspectives On Land Law (feminist Perspectives)

Feminist Perspectives on Land Law Feminist Perspectives on Land Law draws upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law, anthropology and geography to open up perspectives that go beyond the usually narrow topography and cartography of land law. Addressing an unorthodox variety of sites where questions of women’s access and rights to land are raised, this book includes chapters on shopping malls, ancient monuments, nature reserves and housing estates, as well as a consideration of the more conventional location for feminist debate in this area, the family home. The gendered analysis of land use and ownership that is pursued here focuses not only on England and Wales, but also reaches out to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. And it is in exploring such new terrain, in conjunction with old pathways, that Feminist Perspectives on Land Law constitutes an original and critical approach to the intersection between law and land. Hilary Lim is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Law, University of East London. Anne Bottomley is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent. Feminist Perspectives on Land Law Edited by Hilary Lim and Anne Bottomley First published 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge-Cavendish 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 A Glasshouse book Routledge-Cavendish is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2007 Anne Bottomley and Hilary Lim This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0–203–94516–6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 1–85941–806–6 (hbk) ISBN10: 0–415–42033–4 (pbk) ISBN13: 978–1–85941–806–2 (hbk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–42033–4 (pbk) Contents Contributors Acknowledgements Table of cases Table of statutes Table of statutory instruments 1 Feminist perambulations: taking the law for a walk in land vii xi xiii xvii xxi 1 ANNE BOTTOMLEY AND HILARY LIM 2 National nature reserves: nature as other confined 31 SUE ELWORTHY 3 Ancient monuments of national importance: symbols of whose past? 43 PENNY ENGLISH 4 A trip to th