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Courting gender justice : Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights / Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom and Valerie Sperling with Melike Sayoglu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sundstrom, Lisa McIntosh, 1971- author.
- Sperling, Valerie, author.
- Sayoglu, Melike, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Russia (Federation).
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Turkey.
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Russia (Federation).
- Sexual minorities.
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Turkey.
- International and municipal law--Europe.
- International and municipal law.
- International and municipal law--Russia (Federation).
- International and municipal law--Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Courting Gender Justice' explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. Drawing comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey, the text offers interviews with human rights and feminist activists and lawyers, grounding the law in the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend their rights.
- Contents:
- Gender discrimination cases at the European Court of Human Rights: why so few?
- What gender discrimination? : psychological and socio-cultural barriers
- Police, prosecutors, and ping-pong legal barriers
- Whose rights are human rights? : the gender gap between Russian feminist, LGBT, and human rights networks
- International obstacles to Russian gender discrimination cases at the European Court of Human Rights
- Turkish gender discrimination cases in domestic and international courts
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-093285-6
- 0-19-093286-4
- 0-19-093284-8
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