| Description |
xv, 362 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 / Veronica 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| 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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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Williams, Susan Hoffman, 1960-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780521898362 (hardback) |
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0521898366 (hardback) |
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