Beverley Baines / Ruth Rubio-Marin (eds.)

The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence

Herausgeber: Baines, Beverley; Rubio-Marin, Ruth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Describing the constitutional rights of women in twelve countries, the contributors to this collection draw on a wide range of legal cases covering issues such as abortion, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, sexual abuse, pornography, family relationships, access to health and social assistance benefits, and electoral rights, among others. Their analysis reveals how essentially male judges decide cases that are mainly about women's equality claims. The volume's comparative perspective provides readers with the basis for independent pursuits of constitutional equality for women.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521530279
• ISBN-10: 052153027X
• Artikelnr.: 21779067

Autorenporträt

Beverly Baines is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada where she originated the Law Gender Equality and Feminist Jurisprudence courses. Her research interests include issues in constitutional law, feminist legal theory, anti-discrimination law, multiculturalism, and equality rights. She has contributed chapters to Conversation Among Friends - Entre Amies: Women and Constitutional Reform, Changing Patterns: Women in Canada, and Women and the Constitution, and has written articles for major Canadian and international journals.
Ruth Rubio-Marin is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain. She is author of Immigration as a Democratic Challenge: Citizenship and Inclusion in Germany and the United States and of articles on language rights, nationality, immigration and gender in law. She has taught at several North American academic institutions including Princeton University and Columbia Law School and is currently a member of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: toward a feminist constitutional agenda Beverly Baines and
Ruth Rubio-Marin; 2. Speaking into a silence: embedded constitutionalism,
the Australian Constitution and the rights of women Isabel Karpin and Karen
O'Connell; 3. Using the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to
constitute women Beverly Baines; 4. Emancipatory equality: gender under the
Columbian Constitution Martha I. Morgan; 5. Gender equality and
international human rights in Costa Rican constitutional jurisprudence Alda
Facio, Rodrigo Jiménez and Martha Morgan; 6. Constituting women: the French
ways Eric Millard; 7. Gender in the German Constitution Blanca Rodríguez
Ruiz and Ute Sacksofsky; 8. India, sex equality, and constitutional law
Martha C. Nussbaum; 9. Constitutional transformation, gender equality, and
religious/national conflict in Israel: tentative progress through the
obstacle course Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar; 10. 'No nation can be free
when one half of it is enslaved': constitutional equality for women in
South Africa Saras Jagwanth and Christina Murray; 11. Engendering the
constitution: the Spanish experience Ruth Rubio-Marin; 12. Gender equality
from a constitutional perspective: the case of Turkey Hilal Elver; 13.
Gender and the United States Constitution: equal protection, privacy, and
Federalism Reva B. Siegel.