The Public Law of Gender

Herausgeber: Rubenstein, Kim; Young, Katharine G.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With the worldwide sweep of gender-neutral, gender-equal or gender-sensitive public laws in international treaties, national constitutions and statutes, it is timely to document the raft of legal reform and to critically analyse its effectiveness. In demarcating the academic study of the public law of gender, this book brings together leading lawyers, political scientists, historians and philosophers to examine law's structuring of politics, governing and gender in a new global frame. Of interest to constitutional and statutory designers, advocates, adjudicators and scholars, the contributions explore how concepts such as equality, accountability, representation, participation and rights, depend on, challenge or enlist gendered roles and/or categories. These enquiries suggest that the new public law of gender must confront the lapses in enforcement, sincerity and coverage that are common in both national and international law and governance, and critically and pluralistically recast the public/private distinction in family, community, religion, customary and market domains.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 630
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1050g
• ISBN-13: 9781107138575
• ISBN-10: 1107138574
• Artikelnr.: 43920177

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a public law of gender? Katharine G. Young; Part I.
Constitutional Design and Gendered Outcomes: 1. Feminisms and constitutions
Vicki Jackson; 2. Deference and deferral: constitutional structure and the
durability of gender-based nationality laws Kristin A. Collins; 3. The
court and the women: structural litigation and grassroots organizing for
internally displaced people's rights in Colombia Julieta Lemaitre and
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik; Part II. Constitutional Design in a Global
Setting: The Challenge of Local Custom: 4. Customary law, constitutional
law and women's equality Susan H. Williams; 5. Customising equality in
post-conflict constitutions Laura Grenfell; 6. Gender equality in
international law and constitutions: mediating universal norms and local
differences Vijaya Nagarajan and Archana Parashar; 7. Law as a placeholder
for change? Women's rights and realities in Afghanistan Sari Kouvo and
Corey Levine; Part III. Localising Participation and Voice through Law: 8.
Polygamy: who speaks for women? Beverley Baines; 9. In her own voice: oral
(legal) history's insights on gender and the spheres of public law Kim
Rubenstein; Part IV. Governance, Government, and Gendered Measures: 10.
Good governance, gender equality and political representation: ideas as
points of disjuncture Sharon Bessell; 11. Women in government/governance in
New Zealand: a case study of engagement over forty years Margaret Wilson;
12. Equality without freedom? Political representation and participation of
women in Vietnam Huong Nguyen; 13. Gender, justice and statistics: the case
of poverty measurement Scott Wisor; Part V. Governance, Equality and
Non-Discrimination: 14. Gender and race in the constitution of groups: the
limits of non-discrimination law in settler societies Kirsty Gover; 15.
Rethinking the Australian model of promoting gender equality Dominique
Allen; 16. Gender, governance and defence of the realm: globalising reforms
in the Australian Defence Force Susan Harris Rimmer; Part VI. Global
Governance and the Precepts of Public Law: 17. Feminisms, pluralisms and
transnationalism: on CEDAW and national constitutions Vicki Jackson; 18.
Governing gender justice and victims' rights through the International
Criminal Court Louise Chappell; 19. International organisations as
employers: searching for practices of fair treatment and due process rights
of staff Osmat Jefferson and Innokenti Epichev; 20. Transcending gender
inequity in an age of impunity: a gender critique of accountability in
global administrative governance Rohan Kapur and Kellin Kristofferson; 21.
The future we want: an ecofeminist comment on the UN Conference on
Sustainable Development Kate Wilkinson.