Constitutions and gender /

The idea that constitutions are gendered is not new, but its recognition is the product of a revolution in thinking that began in the last decades of the twentieth century. As a field, it is attracting scholarly attention and influencing practice around the world. This timely Handbook features contr...

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Další autoři: Irving, Helen (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017
Edice:Research handbooks in comparative law
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Příbuzné jednotky:Tištěná verze:: Constitutions and gender
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  • Introduction / Helen Irving
  • Part I: Constitution-making
  • 1. Women and participatory constitution-making / Silvia Suteu
  • 2. Women and constitution-making in South Africa / Catherine Albertyn
  • 3. Gender and post-colonial constitutions in Sub-Saharan Africa / Johanna Bond
  • 4. International institutions, constitution-making and gender / Christina Murray and Cindy Wittke
  • Part II: Constitutional design
  • 5. Gender equality: International law and national constitutions / Wendy Lacey
  • 6. 'Gendering' federal constitutions / Jill Vickers
  • 7. A practitioner's account: the Constitution Assessment for Women's Equality / Melanie Allen
  • Part III: Constitutional practice
  • 8. Gender equality, interpretation, and feminist pluralism / Vicki Jackson
  • 9. Gender and constitutionalism in the European Union / Susan Millns
  • 10. Gender equality and parity in European national constitutions / Dia Anagnostou
  • 11. Women judges on constitutional courts: why not nine women? / Beverley Baines
  • Part IV: Constitutions and citizenship
  • 12. Women's political citizenship in new European constitutionalism: between constitutional amendment and progressive interpretation / Ruth Rubio-Marín
  • 13. Indigenous women and constitutional recognition / Megan Davis
  • 14. Citizenship and nationality / Helen Irving
  • Part V: Constitutional challenges
  • 15. Religion, custom, and legal pluralism / Susan H. Williams
  • 16. Constitutions and reproductive rights: convergence and non-convergence / Rosalind Dixon and Jade Bond
  • 17. Constitutions, gender and freedom of expression: the legal regulation of pornography / Katharine Gelber and Adrienne Stone
  • 18. Constitutional approaches to gender and social and economic rights / Beth Goldblatt
  • 19. Patriarchy and constitutional origins / John Kang
  • Index.