Gender Equality

Gender Equality

Author: Linda C. McClain

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-07-31

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1139480367

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Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship - in the laws and constitutions of many countries, as well as in international human rights documents - and the reality of women's lives. This volume presents a collection of original works that examine this persisting inequality through the lens of citizenship. Distinguished scholars in law, political science and women's studies investigate the many dimensions of women's equal citizenship, including constitutional citizenship, democratic citizenship, social citizenship, sexual and reproductive citizenship and global citizenship. Gender Equality takes stock of the progress toward - and remaining impediments to - securing equal citizenship for women, develops strategies for pursuing that goal and identifies new questions that will shape further inquiries.


Feminist Constitutionalism

Feminist Constitutionalism

Author: Beverley Baines

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 0521761573

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Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.


Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship

Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship

Author: Ruth Rubio-Marin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-10-06

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1316827585

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Constitutions around the world have overwhelmingly been the creation of men, but this book asks how far constitutions have affirmed the equal citizenship status of women or failed to do so. Using a wealth of examples from around the world, Ruth Rubio-Marín considers constitutionalism from its inception to the present day and places current debates in their vital historical context. Rubio-Marín adopts an inclusive concept of gender and sexuality, and discusses the constitutional gender order as it has been shaped by debates such those around same-sex marriage and the rights of trans persons. Covering a wide range of themes, from reproductive rights to political gender quotas and violence against women, this book offers a comprehensive feminist account of constitutional law. Truly international in scope and ambitious in subject matter, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars working on gender within multiple disciplines.


No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies

No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies

Author: Linda K. Kerber

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1999-09

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0809073846

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In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time. She begins during the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," and ends in the present, when men and women still have different obligations to serve in the armed forces.


Transforming Gender Citizenship

Transforming Gender Citizenship

Author: Éléonore Lépinard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 110842922X

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Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.


Gender and Citizenship in the Global Age

Gender and Citizenship in the Global Age

Author: Amri, Laroussi

Publisher: CODESRIA

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 2869785895

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One of the major issues this book examines is what the African experience and identity have contributed to the debate on citizenship in the era of globalisation. The volume presents case studies of different African contexts, illustrating the gendered aspects of citizenship as experienced by African men and women. Citizenship carries manifold gendered aspects and given the distinct gender roles and responsibilities, globalisation affects citizenship in different ways. It further examines new forms of citizenship emerging from the current era dominated by a neoliberal focus. The book is not exclusive in terms of theorisation but its focus on African contexts, with an in-depth analysis taking into consideration local culture and practices and their implications for citizenship, provides a good foundation for further scholarly work on gender and citizenship in Africa.


Constitutional Orphan

Constitutional Orphan

Author: Paula A. Monopoli

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0190092793

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An account of the ramifications of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the divisions it created in the courts and Congress, and in the women's movement itself.Constitutional Orphan explores the role of former suffragists in the constitutional development of the Nineteenth Amendment, during the decade following its ratification in 1920. It examines the pivot to new missions, immediately after ratification, by two national suffrage organizations, the National Woman's Party and the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The NWP turned from suffrage to a federal equal rights amendment. NAWSA became the National League of Women Voters, and turned to voter education and social welfare legislation. The book then connects that pivot by both groups, to the emergence of a thin conception of the Nineteenth Amendment, as a matter of constitutional interpretation. It surfaces the history around the Congressional failure to enact enforcement legislation, pursuant to the Nineteenth, and connects that with the NWP's perceived need for southern Congressional votes for the ERA. It also explores the choice to turn away from African American women suffragists asking for help to combat voter suppression efforts, after the November 1920 presidential election; and then evaluates the deep divisions among NWP members, some of whom were social feminists who opposed the ERA, and the NLWV, which supported the social feminists in that opposition. The book also analyzes how state courts, left without federal enforcement legislation to constrain or guide them, used strict construction to cabin the emergence of a more robust interpretation of the Nineteenth. It concludes with an examination of new legal scholarship, which suggests broader ways in which the Nineteenth could be used today to expand gender equality.


The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence

The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence

Author: Beverley Baines

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521530279

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To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women's lives, the contributors examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in 12 countries, covering cases about reproductive, sexual, familial, socio-economic, and democratic rights, and focussing on women's claims to equality.