Constitutions and Gender

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

The idea that constitutions are gendered is not new, but its recognition is the product of a revolution in thinking that began in the last decades of the twentieth century. As a field, it is 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. Offering cutting-edge perspective on the constitutional text and record of multiple jurisdictions, from long-established to newly emerging democracies, Constitutions and Gender portrays a profound shift in our understanding of what constitutions stand for and what they do. Its central insight is that democratic constitutions must serve the needs and aspirations of all the people, and constitutional legitimacy requires opportunities for participation in both the fashioning and functioning of a country's constitution. This challenging assessment is of relevance to scholars and practitioners of law and politics, and gender and feminism as well as practitioners and advisers involved in constitution-making.Contributors include: C. Albertyn, M. Allen, D. Anagnostou, B. Baines, J. Bond, J. Bond, M. Davis, R. Dixon, K. Gelber, B. Goldblatt, H. Irving, V. Jackson, J. Kang, W. Lacey, S. Millns, C. Murray, R. Rubio-Marin, A. Stone, S. Suteu, S. Williams, J. Vickers, C. Wittke

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781784716950

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Edited by Helen Irving, Professor Emerita, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia

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'This timely book is the first in a series of Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law from Edward Elgar, which also produces a series ofResearch Handbooks in Comparative Law. This volume is the first of these handbooks to focus on gender. The editor, Helen Irving - professor of law at the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney, Australia - has compiled 19 impressive chapters that serve as a corrective to the marginalisation of women's experiences that is usually the case in most collections, which may have little or no coverage of gender issues.'--Gender and Development

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Introduction Helen IrvingPART ICONSTITUTION-MAKING1. Women and participatory constitution-making Silvia Suteu2. Women and constitution-making in South Africa Catherine Albertyn 3. Gender and post-colonial constitutions in Sub-Saharan AfricaJohanna Bond4. International institutions, constitution-making and gender Christina Murray and Cindy WittkePART IICONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN5. Gender equality: International law and national constitutionsWendy Lacey6. ‘Gendering’ federal constitutions Jill Vickers7. A practitioner’s account: the Constitution Assessment for Women’s EqualityMelanie AllenPART IIICONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE8. Gender equality, interpretation, and feminist pluralismVicki C. Jackson9. Gender and constitutionalism in the European Union Susan Millns 10. Gender equality and parity in European national constitutions Dia Anagnostou 11. Women judges on constitutional courts: why not nine women? Beverley BainesPART IVCONSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENSHIP12. Women’s political citizenship in new European constitutionalism: between constitutional amendment and progressive interpretationRuth Rubio-Marín13. Indigenous women and constitutional recognition Megan Davis14. Citizenship and nationality Helen IrvingPART VCONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES15. Religion, custom, and legal pluralism Susan H. Williams16. Constitutions and reproductive rights: convergence and non-convergence Rosalind Dixon and Jade Bond17. Constitutions, gender and freedom of expression: the legal regulation of pornographyKatharine Gelber and Adrienne Stone18. Constitutional approaches to gender and social and economic rights Beth Goldblatt19. Patriarchy and constitutional origins John KangIndex