Constituting Equality (eBook, ePUB)

Gender Equality and Comparative Constitutional Law
Redaktion: Williams, Susan H.

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Produktbeschreibung

Constituting Equality addresses the question, how would you write a constitution if you really cared about gender equality? The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality. Each section of the book examines a particular set of constitutional issues or doctrines across a range of different countries to explore what works, where, and why. Topics include: governmental structure (particularly electoral gender quotas); rights provisions; constitutional recognition of cultural or religious practices that discriminate against women; domestic incorporation of international law; and the role of women in the process of constitution making. Interdisciplinary in orientation and global in scope, the book provides a menu for constitutional designers and others interested in how the fundamental legal order might more effectively promote gender equality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511698897
• Artikelnr.: 52934764

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: comparative constitutional law, gender equality, and
constitutional design Susan H. Williams; Part I. Structure: 1. Gender
quotas in politics - a constitutional challenge Drude Dahlerup and Lenita
Freidenvall; 2. Equality, representation, and challenge to hierarchy:
justifying electoral quotas for women Susan H. Williams; Part II. Rights:
3. More than rights Helen Irving; 4. Perfectionism and fundamentalism in
the application of the German abortion law Mary Anne Case; 5. Moral
authority in English and American abortion law Joanna Erdman; Part III.
Cultural/Religious Rights and Gender Equality: 6. Must feminists support
entrenchment of sex equality? Lessons from Quebec Beverly Baines; 7.
Deconstructing the east/west binary: substantive equality and Islamic
marriage in a comparative dialogue Pascale Fournier; 8. Conflicting
agendas? Women's rights and customary law in African constitutional reform
Aili Marie Tripp; 9. Gender equality and the rule of law in Liberia:
statutory law, customary law, and the status of women Felicia Coleman; Part
IV. Constitutional Incorporation of International Law: 10. Constitutional
incorporation of international and comparative human rights laws: the
Colombian constitutional court decision c-355/2006 Veronica Undurraga and
Rebecca Cook; 11. Guatemalan transnational feminists: how their search for
constitutional equality interplays with international law Christiana Ochoa;
Part V. Women in the Process of Constitution Making: 12. Women in the
constitution drafting process in Burma Thin Thin Aung; 13. Founding mothers
for a Palestinian constitution? Adrien Wing; Conclusion: gender equality
and the idea of a constitution: entrenchment, jurisdiction, and
interpretation Vicki Jackson.