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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Print version record |
Subject |
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
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Women's rights.
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Constitutional law.
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Women's Rights
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LAW -- Gender & the Law.
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Constitutional law
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
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Women's rights
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Williams, Susan Hoffman, 1960-
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ISBN |
9780511596384 |
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0511596383 |
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0511698895 |
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9780511698897 |
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1107202086 |
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9781107202085 |
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1282316605 |
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9781282316607 |
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9786612316609 |
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6612316608 |
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0511595980 |
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9780511595981 |
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0511596782 |
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9780511596780 |
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0511593503 |
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9780511593505 |
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0511592574 |
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9780511592577 |
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0511595433 |
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9780511595431 |
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