Gitxsan Legal Personhood: Gendered
ISBN: 978-1-80262-864-7, eISBN: 978-1-80262-863-0
Publication date: 28 March 2022
Abstract
In this chapter, the author explores the conditions of sexualised, gendered violence against Indigenous women and girls. The author asks how various responses to this violence have shaped the present-day legal personhood of Indigenous women and girls from two perspectives: an Indigenous legal perspective and a Canadian legal perspective. To avoid the troublesome pan-Indigenous generalisations of legal personhood, the author focusses on one Indigenous society, the Gitxsan people from northwest British Columbia and their legal order and laws.2 The author examines several specific questions about how the Gitxsan legal tradition historically defined the legal personhood of Gitxsan women and girls, and how this has changed with colonisation. The author takes up specific aspects of the operation and structure of Gitxsan law and legal institutions and analyse the ways that they are gendered.
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Citation
Napoleon, V. (2022), "Gitxsan Legal Personhood: Gendered", Sarat, A., Pavlich, G. and Mailey, R. (Ed.) Interrupting the Legal Person (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 87A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 19-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-43372022000087A002
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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