Essays on Gender and Constitution Making
Author : Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9789966973603
Author : Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9789966973603
Author : Helen Irving
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 22,94 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 : Ruth Rubio-Marín
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108653367
That a constitution should express the will of 'the people' is a long-standing principle, but the identity of 'the people' has historically been narrow. Women, in particular, were not included. A shift, however, has recently occurred. Women's participation in constitution-making is now recognised as a democratic right. Women's demands to have their voices heard in both the processes of constitution-making and the text of their country's constitution, are gaining recognition. Campaigning for inclusion in their country's constitution-making, women have adopted innovative strategies to express their constitutional aspirations. This collection offers, for the first time, comprehensive case studies of women's campaigns for constitutional equality in nine different countries that have undergone constitutional transformations in the 'participatory era'. Against a richly-contextualised historical and political background, each charts the actions and strategies of women participants, both formal and informal, and records their successes, failures and continuing hopes for constitutional equality.
Author : Mariadas Ruthnaswamy
Publisher :
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1946*
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN :
Author : Tom Ginsburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 29,77 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 : Beverley Baines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Joseph Oloka-Onyango
Publisher : Fountain Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN :
This collection of essays brings together critical and considered responses to matters of constitutionalism in the context of the most recent political evolutions in many African countries. They are concerned with the struggles for progressive constitionalism, and review historical developments and future challenges. Some specific subjects discussed are: pan- Africanism and constitutionalism; culture, ethnicity and citizenship with reference to Ruanda and Senegal; equality, discrimination and constitutionalism in Muslim Africa; gender and affirmative action in post-1995 Uganda; constitution making in Eritrea; and the challenges of antiquated constitutional doctrines and values in Commonwealth Africa. The contributors are prominent scholars in the fields of politics, law and human rights and include Ola Abu Zeid, Antonia Kalu, Ali Mazrui, Oloka-Onyanyo and Sylvia Tamale.
Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0679724516
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
Author : Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2004-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0231502966
Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women. Divided into three parts—History, Interpretation, and Practice—this book views the Constitution as a living document, struggling to free itself from the weight of a two-hundred-year-old past and capable of evolving to include women and their concerns. Feminism lacks both a constitutional theory as well as a clearly defined theory of political legitimacy within the framework of democracy. The scholars included here take significant and crucial steps toward these theories. In addition to constitutional issues such as federalism, gender discrimination, basic rights, privacy, and abortion, Women and the U.S. Constitution explores other issues of central concern to contemporary women—areas that, strictly speaking, are not yet considered a part of constitutional law. Women's traditional labor and its unique character, and women and the welfare state, are two examples of topics treated here from the perspective of their potentially transformative role in the future development of constitutional law.
Author : Helen Irving
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,16 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.