Constituting equality
Subtitle: gender equality and comparative constitutional rights
By: edited by Susan H. Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Susan Hoffman, 1960-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780521898362
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation; Women's rights; Constitutional law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender quotas in politics : a constitutional challenge / Drude Dahlerup and Lenita Friedenvall; title: Equality, representation, and challenge to hierarchy : justifying electoral quotas for women / Susan Williams; title: More than rights / Helen Irving; title: Perfectionism and fundamentalism in the application of the German abortion laws / Mary Anne Case; title: Moral authority in American and English abortion law / Joanna Erdman; title: Must feminists support entrenchment of sex equality? : lessons from Quebec / Beverley Baines; title: Adjudicating Mahr transnationally : substantive equality, gender, and the indeterminacy of legal doctrine / Pascale Fournier; title: Conflicting agendas? : women's rights and customary law in African constitutional reform / Aili Marie Tripp; title: Gender equality and the rule of law in Liberia : statutory law, customary law, and the status of women / Felicia V. Coleman; title: Constitutional incorporation of international and comparative human rights law : the Colombian constitutional court decision C-355 2006 / Veronica Undurraga and Rebecca Cook; title: Guatemalan transnational feminists : how their search for constitutional equality interplays with international law / Christiana Ochoa; title: Women in the constitutional drafting process in Burma / Thin Thin Aung and Susan Williams; title: Founding mothers for a Palestinian constitution? / Adrien Katherine Wing and Hisham A. Kassim.