Courting Gender Justice explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. Drawing comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey, the book offers interviews with human rights and feminist activists and lawyers, grounding the law in the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend their rights.
Courting Gender Justice explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. Drawing comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey, the book offers interviews with human rights and feminist activists and lawyers, grounding the law in the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend their rights.
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University. Melike Sayoglu is a Ph.D. Candidate at Clark University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Table of Cases: European Court of Human Rights * Note on Transliteration * Chapter 1: Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights: Why So Few? * Chapter 2: What Gender Discrimination? Psychological and Socio-Cultural Barriers * Chapter 3: Police, Prosecutors, and Ping-Pong: Legal Barriers * Chapter 4: Whose Rights are Human Rights? The Gender Gap Between Russian Feminist, LGBT, and Human Rights Networks * Chapter 5: International Obstacles to Russian Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights * Chapter 6: Turkish Gender Discrimination Cases in Domestic and International Courts * Chapter 7: Conclusion * References * Appendix: Interviews * Index
* Table of Cases: European Court of Human Rights * Note on Transliteration * Chapter 1: Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights: Why So Few? * Chapter 2: What Gender Discrimination? Psychological and Socio-Cultural Barriers * Chapter 3: Police, Prosecutors, and Ping-Pong: Legal Barriers * Chapter 4: Whose Rights are Human Rights? The Gender Gap Between Russian Feminist, LGBT, and Human Rights Networks * Chapter 5: International Obstacles to Russian Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights * Chapter 6: Turkish Gender Discrimination Cases in Domestic and International Courts * Chapter 7: Conclusion * References * Appendix: Interviews * Index
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