Frontiers of Gender Equality (eBook)

Transnational Legal Perspectives

Rebecca J. Cook (Herausgeber)

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2023
616 Seiten
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-5128-2357-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples.Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social, and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion, and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination.With the benefit of hindsight, the book's contributors reconstruct gender equalities in concrete situations. Given the increasingly porous exchanges between domestic and international law, various national, regional, and international decisions and texts are examined to determine how better to breathe life into equality from the perspectives, for instance, of Indigenous and Muslim women, those who were violated sexually and physically, and those needing access to necessary health care, including abortion. The conclusion suggests areas of future research, including how to translate the concept of intersectionality into normative and institutional settings, which will assist in promoting the goals of gender equality.

Autor

Rebecca J. Cook is Professor of Law Emerita at the University of Toronto.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Reihe/Serie: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abortion rights • African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights • American convention on human rights • Arab Charter on Human Rights • CEDAW Committee • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination • European Court of Human Rights • European Social Charter • gender inequality equalitysubstantive equality • gender intersectional discrimination • human rights of women • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights • International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights • law legal studies • Religious Freedom • Sustainable Development Goals • transformative equality • women’s queer indigenous rights
• ISBN-10: 1-5128-2357-0 / 1512823570
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5128-2357-8 / 9781512823578