Gender Justice And Legal Pluralities

Author : Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136191572

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Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities by Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish Pdf

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.

Author : Rachel Sieder
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813587943

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Demanding Justice and Security by Rachel Sieder Pdf

Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged ‘bad customs’ and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists. From Kichwa women in Ecuador lobbying for the inclusion of specific clauses in the national constitution that guarantee their rights to equality and protection within indigenous community law, to Me’phaa women from Guerrero, Mexico, battling to secure justice within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations committed in the context of militarizing their home state, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of indigenous women in Latin America.

Author : Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136191565

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Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities by Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish Pdf

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.

Author : Mala Htun,S. Laurel Weldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417563

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The Logics of Gender Justice by Mala Htun,S. Laurel Weldon Pdf

This book explains when and why governments around the world take action to advance - or undermine - women's rights.

Author : Louise A. Chappell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199927913

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The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court by Louise A. Chappell Pdf

The definitive volume on gender and the ICC, this book makes substantial contributions to the fields of feminist international relations, feminist institutionalism, and historical institutionalism.

Author : David Kirp,Mark Yudof,Marlene Franks Strong
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226437651

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Gender Justice by David Kirp,Mark Yudof,Marlene Franks Strong Pdf

Tracing the way various public policies have evolved, David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof, and Marlene Strong Franks find that the profusion of legislation and court decisions masks an uncertain and problematic sense of what gender-based justice means. They show that even policies not ostensibly concerned with gender—from tax codes to health benefits—have a significant effect on sexual equality. They argue that whether or not it intends to do so, our government is setting gender policies. Pointing out that individual autonomy is the essential component of a just society, they endorse a policy that encourages choice rather than one that promotes particular outcomes.

Author : Michaele Ferguson,Andrew Valls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429663093

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Iris Marion Young by Michaele Ferguson,Andrew Valls Pdf

Iris Marion Young (1949-2006) was one of the most influential and innovative political theorists of her generation who had a significant impact on a wide range of topics such as democratic theory, feminist theory, and justice. She bridged many longstanding divides among political theorists, engaging in Continental and critical theory, but also insisting on the importance of normative argument: her corpus stands as a testament to the fruitfulness of engaging in both abstract theory and the 'real world' of everyday politics. This volume spans the several decades of her work, illustrating her intellectual development over time through three major areas of innovation: Gender: Maintaining that gender is both conceptually and politically meaningful, Young theorized gender in terms of structures that, in combination, position different people we call "women" in different ways, such that some women have some structures in common, without all women sharing all gendered structures in common. Justice: Young’s early writings on a critical theory of justice evolved in her later and posthumously published works where she developed an account of justice that brought together her theorization of structure with her concern to respond to contemporary claims of injustice. The Politics of Difference: Young rejected universal and abstract theories of justice and maintained that justice instead required attending to the experiences of people marked by difference. This volume will prove useful to scholars and students working in the fields of critical and political theory, feminist theory, international law and public diplomacy.

Author : Debra L. DeLaet,Renée Ann Cramer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429565878

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Gender, Sexuality, and the Law by Debra L. DeLaet,Renée Ann Cramer Pdf

This volume examines the role of law as a tool for advancing women’s rights and gender equity in local, national, and global contexts. Many feminist scholars note a marked failure of law to achieve goals connected to women’s rights and gender equality. Despite its limitations, law provides aspirational norms that can be mobilized to hold institutions accountable and to provide material benefit to those excluded from systems of power. In conversation with each other, the chapters in this volume help to advance understanding of both the limitations and the potential of law as a tool for advancing democratic participation, rights, and justice around issues related to gender and sexuality. Contributors acknowledge, to varying degrees, that law has important symbolism and may be used as a lever to mobilize change. At the same time, some offer cautionary notes about the potential downside risks and unintended consequences of relying upon law in pursuit of women’s rights and gender equity. Collectively, the chapters in this volume explore the disjuncture between the promise and expectation of legal reform and the lived experience of those laws by people intended as the beneficiaries of legal change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8189659332

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Gender Justice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ngaire Naffine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351565950

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Gender and Justice by Ngaire Naffine Pdf

The leading articles on gender and justice within Anglo-American legal theory are assembled in this volume. The essays are drawn primarily from the writings of lawyers working in the common law tradition and they mainly examine the justice of legal institutions. Due to the close kinship between political and legal theories of justice, the book also includes a selection of the work of the more prominent political theorists of justice and gender.

Author : Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom,Valerie Sperling,Melike Sayoglu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190932848

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Courting Gender Justice by Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom,Valerie Sperling,Melike Sayoglu Pdf

Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals and then turned to their last hope: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR, located in Strasbourg, France, is widely regarded as the most effective international human rights court in existence. Russian citizens whose rights have been violated at home have brought tens of thousands of cases to the ECtHR over the past two decades. But only one of these cases resulted in a finding of gender discrimination by the ECtHR-and that case was brought by a man. By comparison, the Court has found gender discrimination more frequently in decisions on Turkish cases. Courting Gender Justice explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. To shed light on the factors that make rare victories possible in discrimination cases, the book draws comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey. Based on interviews with human rights and feminist activists and lawyers in Russia and Turkey, this engaging book grounds the law in the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend their rights.

Author : Lynn Stephen,Shannon Speed
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539451

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Indigenous Women and Violence by Lynn Stephen,Shannon Speed Pdf

Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice. Taking on the issues of our times, Indigenous Women and Violence calls for the deepening of collaborative ethnographies through community engagement and performing research as an embodied experience. This book brings together settler colonialism, feminist ethnography, collaborative and activist ethnography, emotional communities, and standpoint research to look at the links between structural, extreme, and everyday violences across time and space. Indigenous Women and Violence is built on engaging case studies that highlight the individual and collective struggles that Indigenous women face from the racial and gendered oppression that structures their lives. Gendered violence has always been a part of the genocidal and assimilationist projects of settler colonialism, and it remains so today. These structures—and the forms of violence inherent to them—are driving criminalization and victimization of Indigenous men and women, leading to escalating levels of assassination, incarceration, or transnational displacement of Indigenous people, and especially Indigenous women. This volume brings together the potent ethnographic research of eight scholars who have dedicated their careers to illuminating the ways in which Indigenous women have challenged communities, states, legal systems, and social movements to promote gender justice. The chapters in this book are engaged, feminist, collaborative, and activism focused, conveying powerful messages about the resilience and resistance of Indigenous women in the face of violence and systemic oppression. Contributors: R. Aída Hernández-Castillo, Morna Macleod, Mariana Mora, María Teresa Sierra, Shannon Speed, Lynn Stephen, Margo Tamez, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj

Author : S. Buckley-Zistel,R. Stanley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230348615

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Gender in Transitional Justice by S. Buckley-Zistel,R. Stanley Pdf

Based on original empirical research, this book explores retributive and gender justice, the potentials and limits of agency, and the correlation of transitional justice and social change through case studies of current dynamics in post-violence countries such Rwanda, South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Columbia, Chile and Germany.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:985525282

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Gender Justice LA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Natalie Persadie
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780761858102

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A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality by Natalie Persadie Pdf

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented by the necessary financial and human resources to make the law effective. Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, the achievement of legal advances for women—at either the international or national levels—is particularly difficult where practical measures are not subsequently implemented. This is, perhaps, attributable to a lack of political will. Important issues such as gender equality and domestic violence are not given priority and laws aimed at protecting women and promoting women’s rights are ineffective, scant, or unenforced. Gender justice can only be realized through a multilevel approach from above and, more importantly, from below, as women have the potential to effect real national and international legal and institutional change to ensure gender equality at both levels.