The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-521-53027-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baines, Beverley

Rubio-Marin, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: toward a feminist constitutional agenda Beverly Baines and Ruth Rubio-Marin; 2. Speaking into a silence: embedded constitutionalism, the Australian Constitution and the rights of women Isabel Karpin and Karen O'Connell; 3. Using the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to constitute women Beverly Baines; 4. Emancipatory equality: gender under the Columbian Constitution Martha I. Morgan; 5. Gender equality and international human rights in Costa Rican constitutional jurisprudence Alda Facio, Rodrigo Jiménez and Martha Morgan; 6. Constituting women: the French ways Eric Millard; 7. Gender in the German Constitution Blanca Rodríguez Ruiz and Ute Sacksofsky; 8. India, sex equality, and constitutional law Martha C. Nussbaum; 9. Constitutional transformation, gender equality, and religious/national conflict in Israel: tentative progress through the obstacle course Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar; 10. 'No nation can be free when one half of it is enslaved': constitutional equality for women in South Africa Saras Jagwanth and Christina Murray; 11. Engendering the constitution: the Spanish experience Ruth Rubio-Marin; 12. Gender equality from a constitutional perspective: the case of Turkey Hilal Elver; 13. Gender and the United States Constitution: equal protection, privacy, and Federalism Reva B. Siegel.

Über Autor(innen)

Baines, Beverley
Beverly Baines is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada where she originated the Law Gender Equality and Feminist Jurisprudence courses. Her research interests include issues in constitutional law, feminist legal theory, anti-discrimination law, multiculturalism, and equality rights. She has contributed chapters to Conversation Among Friends - Entre Amies: Women and Constitutional Reform, Changing Patterns: Women in Canada, and Women and the Constitution, and has written articles for major Canadian and international journals.

Rubio-Marin, Ruth
Ruth Rubio-Marin is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain. She is author of Immigration as a Democratic Challenge: Citizenship and Inclusion in Germany and the United States and of articles on language rights, nationality, immigration and gender in law. She has taught at several North American academic institutions including Princeton University and Columbia Law School and is currently a member of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University.