International Congress on Feminism, Law and Citizenship

International congress organized by University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and University of Reading, together with the Gender, Law and Society and Legal Professions Working Groups of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law (RCSL). Citizenship may be defined as the status of a citizen with its attendant duties, rights and privileges. It thus governs the relationship of individuals and the state they live in. Questioning the relationship between feminism, law and citizenship unsurprisingly builds on feminist legal theory, whose central claim posits the law as a fundamental tool in the historical subordination of women. If women's suffrage is now accepted in virtually all countries, the link between gender, law and citizenship is also paramount in terms of property rights, reproductive rights, protection against discrimination, including intersectional discrimination, which this congress proposes to explore.