Courting Gender Justice

Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University.Melike Sayoglu is a Ph.D. Candidate at Clark University.

By relying on comparative case studies of Russia and Turkey, and making good use of insightful (and on occasion alarming or heart-wrenching) interviews with lawyers, activists, academics and other human rights and feminist practitioners in Russia and Turkey, the authors succeed in presenting a compelling account of how the stark realities on the ground may hinder the effectiveness of the guarantees offered by the echr protection framework ... The key strength of this study is that it offers an accessible, clear and detailed account of activist and victims' perspectives on accessing remedies for discrimination, both in the domestic and the international legal sphere. By focusing primarily on semi-structured interviews, the authors succeed in communicating the immediacy and scale of the problem ... [I]t marks an indispensable and important addition to the literature on Article 14 echr

• Table of Cases: European Court of Human RightsNote on Transliteration Chapter 1: Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights: Why So Few? Chapter 2: What Gender Discrimination? Psychological and Socio-Cultural Barriers Chapter 3: Police, Prosecutors, and Ping-Pong: Legal Barriers Chapter 4: Whose Rights are Human Rights? The Gender Gap Between Russian Feminist, LGBT, and Human Rights Networks Chapter 5: International Obstacles to Russian Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human Rights Chapter 6: Turkish Gender Discrimination Cases in Domestic and International Courts Chapter 7: Conclusion ReferencesAppendix: InterviewsIndex