Author : Ruth Rubio-Marin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107177022
Considers whether and how constitutions have affirmed women's equal citizenship status, from the birth of constitutionalism to the present.
Author : Helen Irving
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1784716960
Constitutions and gender is a new and exciting field, attracting scholarly attention and influencing practice around the world. This timely handbook features contributions from leading pioneers and younger scholars, applying a gendered lens to constitution-making and design, constitutional practice and citizenship, and constitutional challenges to gender equality rights and values. It offers a gendered perspective on the constitutional text and record of multiple jurisdictions, from the long-established, to the world’s newly emerging democracies. Constitutions and Gender portrays a profound shift in our understanding of what constitutions stand for and what they do.
Author : Beverley Baines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521530279
To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women's lives, the contributors examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in 12 countries, covering cases about reproductive, sexual, familial, socio-economic, and democratic rights, and focussing on women's claims to equality.
Author : Susan H. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139481266
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.
Author : Jody Heymann
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520309634
In a world where basic human rights are under attack and discrimination is widespread, Advancing Equality reminds us of the critical role of constitutions in creating and protecting equal rights. Combining a comparative analysis of equal rights in the constitutions of all 193 United Nations member countries with inspiring stories of activism and powerful court cases from around the globe, the book traces the trends in constitution drafting over the past half century and examines how stronger protections against discrimination have transformed lives. Looking at equal rights across gender, race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, social class, and migration status, the authors uncover which groups are increasingly guaranteed equal rights in constitutions, whether or not these rights on paper have been translated into practice, and which nations lag behind. Serving as a comprehensive call to action for anyone who cares about their country’s future, Advancing Equality challenges us to remember how far we all still must go for equal rights for all.
Author : Helen Irving
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139468758
We live in an era of constitution-making. New constitutions are appearing in historically unprecedented numbers, following regime change in some countries, or a commitment to modernization in others. No democratic constitution today can fail to recognize or provide for gender equality. Constitution-makers need to understand the gendered character of all constitutions, and to recognize the differential impact on women of constitutional provisions, even where these appear gender-neutral. This book confronts what needs to be considered in writing a constitution when gender equity and agency are goals. It examines principles of constitutionalism, constitutional jurisprudence, and history. Its goal is to establish a framework for a 'gender audit' of both new and existing constitutions. It eschews a simple focus on rights and examines constitutional language, interpretation, structures and distribution of power, rules of citizenship, processes of representation, and the constitutional recognition of international and customary law. It discusses equality rights and reproductive rights as distinct issues for constitutional design.
Author : Kim Rubenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316546306
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.
Author : Beverley Baines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521761573
Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.
Author : Tom Ginsburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107020565
Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.
Author : Gretchen Ritter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804754385
This book focuses on gender and civic membership in American constitutional politics from the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment through Second Wave Feminism. It examines how American civic membership is gendered, and how the terms of civic membership available to men and women shape their political identities, aspirations, and behavior. The book also explores the dynamics of American constitutional development through a focus on civic membership--a legal and political construct at the heart of the constitutional order. This is a book about gender politics and constitutional development, and about what each of these can tell us about the other. It considers the options and choices faced by womens rights activists in the United States as they voiced their claims for civic inclusion from Reconstruction through Second Wave Feminism, and it makes evident the limits of liberal citizenship for women.
