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Title Constituting equality : gender equality and comparative constitutional law / edited by Susan H. Williams
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 362 pages)
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 / VerĂ³nica 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
Summary The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
Women's rights.
Constitutional law.
Women's Rights
LAW -- Gender & the Law.
Constitutional law
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
Women's rights
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Susan Hoffman, 1960-
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