Constituting equality : gender equality and comparative constitutional law /

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Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 362 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
Women's rights.
Constitutional law.
LAW -- Gender & the Law.
Constitutional law.
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
Women's rights.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11826515
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Other authors / contributors:Williams, Susan Hoffman, 1960-
ISBN:9780511596384
0511596383
9780521898362
0521898366
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality.
Other form:Print version: Constituting equality. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Table of Contents:
  • Gender quotas in politics : a constitutional challenge / Drude Dahlerup and Lenita Freidenvall
  • Equality, representation, and challenge to hierarchy : justifying electoral quotas for women / Susan H. Williams
  • More than rights / Helen Irving
  • Perfectionism and fundamentalism in the application of the German abortion laws / Mary Anne Case
  • Moral authority in English and American abortion law / Joanna N. Erdman
  • Must feminists support entrenchment of sex equality? : lessons from Quebec / Beverley Baines
  • Deconstructing the East/West binary : substantive equality and Islamic marriage in a comparative dialogue / Pascale Fournier
  • Conflicting agendas? : women's rights and customary law in African constitutional reform / Aili Mari Tripp
  • Gender equality and the rule of law in Liberia : statutory law, customary law, and the status of women / Felicia V. Coleman
  • Constitutional incorporation of international and comparative human rights law : the Colombian constitutional court decision C-355 2006 / VeroĢnica Undurraga and Rebecca J. Cook
  • Guatemalan transnational feminists : how their search for constitutional equality interplays with international law / Christiana Ochoa
  • Women in the constitutional drafting process in Burma / Thin Thin Aung and Susan H. Williams
  • Founding mothers for a Palestinian constitution? / Adrien Katherine Wing and Hisham A. Kassim.