Fiche du document
8 juin 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.36257
- isbn: 9782728313785
- eisbn: 9782728315253
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Sujets proches
Womyn Wimmin Woman Womon Human females Women's workCiter ce document
Simona Feci, « Se il diritto costruisce la storia delle donne », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.36257
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
The article examines some relevant issues about the relationship between women and their legal status which may increase the research and methodological discussion: in particular, the nature of the legal sources, the investigative potential of legal feminism, the comparative approach and the global perspective. It highlights the very important role of researches on women’s rights in the specific context of Italian historiography on women and gender of the Middle Ages and Early modern periods. In particular, the topic of the dowry and of the property rights of women, on one hand, and the topic of the legal and religious regulation of marriage have been at the core of Italian researches, that have tried, using mainly legal and notarial sources, to highlight women’s ‘agency’, with the risk, in some cases, to get to conclusions that can be too optimistic. The agenda for further researches must put at the centre a comparative approach, not only in the Italian context, but more generally in the European one. The different legal traditions of European regions gave rise to specific legal contexts, in which gender relations and identities developed in different ways.