The public law of gender : from the local to the global /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016. ©2016 |
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| Description: | xxii, 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Connecting international law with public law Connecting international law with public law. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10804126 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a public law of gender?
- Part I. Constitutional Design and Gendered Outcomes
- 1. Feminisms and constitutions
- 2. Deference and deferral: constitutional structure and the durability of gender-based nationality laws
- 3. Structural remedies and the one million pesos: on the limits of court-ordered social change for internally displaced women in Colombia
- Part II. Constitutional Design in a Global Setting: The Challenge of the Local
- 4. Customary law, constitutional law and women's equality
- 5. Customising equality in post-conflict constitutions
- 6. Gender equality in international law and constitutions: mediating universal norms and local differences
- 7. Law as a placeholder for change? Women's rights and realities in Afghanistan
- Part III. Localising Participation and Voice through Law
- 8. Polygamy: who speaks for women?
- 9. In her own voice: oral (legal) history's insights on gender and the spheres of public law
- Part IV. Governance, Representation and Gendered Measures
- 10. Good governance, gender equality and women's political representation: ideas as points of disjuncture
- 11. Women in government/governance in New Zealand: a case study of engagement over forty years
- 12. Equality without freedom? Political representation and participation of women in Vietnam
- 13. Gender, justice and statistics: the case of poverty measurement
- Part V. Governance, Equality and Non-Discrimination
- 14. Gender and racial discrimination in the formation of groups: tribal and liberal approaches to membership in settler societies
- 15. Rethinking the Australian model of promoting gender equality
- 16. Gender, governance and defence of the realm: globalising reforms in the Australian Defence Force
- Part VI. Global Governance and the Precepts of Public Law
- 17. Feminisms, pluralisms and transnationalism: on CEDAW and national constitutions
- 18. Governing victims' redress and gender justice at the International Criminal Court
- 19. International organisations as employers: searching for practices of fair treatment and due process rights of staff
- 20. A gender critique of accountability in global administrative governance
- 21. Is this the future we want? An ecofeminist comment on the UN Conference on Sustainable Development Outcome Document