The gender of constitutional jurisprudence / edited by Beverley Baines, Ruth Rubio-Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baines, Beverley, 1941- editor.

Rubio-Marín, Ruth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women's lives, the contributors to this volume examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in twelve countries. Analyzing jurisprudence about reproductive, sexual, familial, socio-economic, and democratic rights, they focus constructively on women's claims to equality, asking who makes these claims, what constitutional rights inform them, how they have evolved, what arguments work in defending them, and how they relate to other national issues. Their findings reveal significant similarities in outcomes and in reasoning about women's constitutional rights in these twelve countries, challenging the tradition of distinguishing constitutional jurisprudence depending on whether the country has a written or unwritten constitution, subscribes to civil or common law, is a federal or unitary state, limits constitutional adjudication to the public domain, accords international norms binding or subject to incorporation force, or relies on a specialized or general court to adjudicate constitutional matters.

Contents:

Toward a feminist constitutional agenda / Beverly Baines, Ruth Rubio-Marin

Speaking into a silence : embedded constitutionalism, the Australian Constitution, and the rights of women / Isabel Karpin, Karen O'Connell

Using the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms to constitute women / Beverly Baines

Emancipatory equality : gender jurisprudence under the Colombian Constitution / Martha I. Morgan

Gender equality and international human rights in Costa Rican constitutional jurisprudence / Alda Facio, Rodrigo Jiménez Sandova, Martha I. Morgan

Constituting women : the French ways / Eric Millard

Gender in the German Constitution / Blanca Rodríguez Ruiz, Ute Sacksofsky

India, sex equality, and constitutional law / Martha C. Nussbaum

Constitutional transformation, gender equality, and religious/national conflict in Israel : tentative progress through the obstacle course / Ran Hirschl, Ayelet Shachar

No nation can be free when one half of it is enslaved : constitutional equality for women in South Africa / Saras Jagwanth, Christina Murray

Engendering the constitution : the Spanish experience / Ruth Rubio-Marin

Gender equality from a constitutional perspective : the case of Turkey / Hilal Elver

Gender and the United States Constitution : equal protection, privacy, and federalism / Reva B. Siegel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15981-4

1-280-70206-0

0-511-23081-8

0-511-23158-X

0-511-22919-4

0-511-32738-2

0-511-61739-9

0-511-23003-6

OCLC:

171139659