What’s the deal? women’s evidence and gendered negotiations

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dc.article.start-page7
dc.contributor.authorBonthuys, Elsje
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-04T09:28:51Z
dc.date.available2024-10-04T09:28:51Z
dc.date.issued2018-11
dc.description.abstractSouth African law has traditionally denied property sharing rights to people in nonmarital intimate partnerships, but a series of new cases has created the possibility of enforcing universal partnership contracts to claim a share in partnership property.However, evidential biases within these progressive cases reflect a historical disdain for women’s contributions to relationships and a widespread reluctance to believe women’s testimony about the existence of agreements to share. These biases bear strong resemblances to the gender stereotypes which have been the subject of feminist critique in rape law. Central to both rape and universal partnerships is the issue of consent or agreement between men and women. This, in turn, depends on social beliefs about male and female entitlements in the realms of sex and intimate relationships. The paper highlights the commonalities and parallels between the legal treatment of women’s evidence about the existence of contracts on the one hand, and the prejudice faced by complainants in rape cases.
dc.description.submitterPM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier0000-0002-0774-5828
dc.identifier.citationBonthuys, E. (2019). What’s the deal? Women’s evidence and gendered negotiations. Feminist Legal Studies, 27(1), 7-31. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-018-9391-2
dc.identifier.issn0966-3622 (print
dc.identifier.issn1572-8455 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/41368
dc.journal.titleFeminist Legal Studies
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 27
dc.rights© Springer Nature B.V. 2018.
dc.schoolSchool of Law
dc.subjectContract
dc.subjectEvidence
dc.subjectProperty
dc.subjectProperty
dc.subjectGender stereotypes
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectRape
dc.subjectUniversal partnership
dc.subject.otherSDG-5: Gender equality
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.titleWhat’s the deal? women’s evidence and gendered negotiations
dc.typeArticle
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