Women Gender And Constitutionalism In Latin America

Author : Francisca Pou Giménez,Ruth Rubio Marín,Verónica Undurraga Valdés
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040010587

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Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America by Francisca Pou Giménez,Ruth Rubio Marín,Verónica Undurraga Valdés Pdf

This book discusses to what extent and how constitutional design and practice in Latin America have helped in combatting the subordination of women and LGBTQIA+ people. Covering 11 jurisdictions, the chapters identify the main elements of the constitutional gender order and survey jurisprudential and legislative developments in different areas, incorporating contextual analysis and references to history, political dynamics, social movements, feminist struggles, normative efficacy, and policy. In the context of a constitutionalism that has been celebrated as particularly innovative and socially engaged, the book assesses constitutional performance in the quest to supersede the separate gendered spheres tradition and the subordination of women and sexual minorities to heteronormative hegemony. It fills an important gap in the field of gender and constitutionalism, which has paid very little attention to Latin America compared to the Anglo-American legal world and continental Europe. It identifies regional trends, but also variables which account for the diversity of approaches in various jurisdictions. The book provides much-needed insight into matters that are relevant for legal and socio-legal scholars, an ever-growing number of social actors and movements, and all those interested in comparative constitutionalism and in the intersections between law and gender.

Author : Maxine Molyneux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403914118

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Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America by Maxine Molyneux Pdf

This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.

Author : Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Ruth Rubio-Marin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316827581

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Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship by Ruth Rubio-Marin Pdf

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.

Author : Mala Htun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521008794

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Sex and the State by Mala Htun Pdf

Abortion, divorce, and the family: how did the state make policy decisions in these areas in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the last third of the twentieth century? As the three countries transitioned from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. The results were often surprising: women's rights were expanded under military dictatorships, divorce was legalized in authoritarian Brazil but not in democratic Chile, and no Latin American country changed its laws on abortion. Sex and the State explores these patterns of gender-related policy reform and shows how they mattered for the peoples of Latin America and for a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in shaping private lives and gender relations everywhere.

Author : Tomáš Došek,Flavia Freidenberg,Mariana Caminotti,Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349950096

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Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America by Tomáš Došek,Flavia Freidenberg,Mariana Caminotti,Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian Pdf

This book discusses the current tendencies in women’s representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors examine cultural, political-partisan and organizational obstacles that women face in and outside institutions. Secondly, the book explores barriers in political reality, such as gender legislation implementation, public administration and international cooperation, and proposes solutions, supported by successful experiences, emphasising the nonlinearity of the implementation process. Thirdly, the authors highlight the role of women in politics at the subnational level. The book combines academic expertise in various disciplines with contributions from practitioners within national and international institutions to broaden the reader’s understanding of women in Latin American politics.

Author : Victoria González-Rivera,Karen Kampwirth
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271042478

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Radical Women in Latin America by Victoria González-Rivera,Karen Kampwirth Pdf

The rationale stated for studying radical women of Latin America is first to throw light on the development of dictatorship and authoritarianism, second to transcend the stereotype of inherently violent men and inherently peaceful women, and finally to demonstrate that there is no automatic sisterhood among women even of the same class and ethnicity. Brief chronologies of three countries each in Central and South America open the two sections. The contributors are historians and political scientists primarily from the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jane S. Jaquette
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003214058

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The Women's Movement in Latin America by Jane S. Jaquette Pdf

Author : Nikki Craske
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745666082

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Women and Politics in Latin America by Nikki Craske Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions and feminisms.

Author : Armin von Bogdandy,Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor,Mariela Morales Antoniazzi,Flávia Piovesan,Ximena Soley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192515469

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Transformative Constitutionalism in Latin America by Armin von Bogdandy,Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor,Mariela Morales Antoniazzi,Flávia Piovesan,Ximena Soley Pdf

This ground-breaking collection of essays outlines and explains the unique development of Latin American jurisprudence. It introduces the idea of the Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina (ICCAL), an original Latin American path of transformative constitutionalism, to an Anglophone audience for the first time. It charts the key developments that have transformed the region and assesses the success of the constitutional projects that followed a period of authoritarian regimes in Latin America. Coined by scholars who have been documenting, conceptualizing, and comparing the development of Latin American public law for more than a decade, the term ICCAL encompasses themes that cross national borders and legal fields, taking in constitutional law, administrative law, general public international law, regional integration law, human rights, and investment law. Not only does this volume map the legal landscape, it also suggests measures to improve society via due legal process and a rights-based, supranational and regionally rooted constitutionalism. The editors contend that with the strengthening of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, common problems such as the exclusion of wide sectors of the population from having a say in government, as well as corruption, hyper-presidentialism, and the weak normativity of the law can be combatted more effectively in future.

Author : Elizabeth Dore,Maxine Molyneux
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0822324695

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Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America by Elizabeth Dore,Maxine Molyneux Pdf

DIVCollection of essays which compares the gendered aspects of state formation in Latin Ameri can nations and includes new material arising out of recent feminist work in history, political science and sociology./div

Author : Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl Lutjens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742510751

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Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl Lutjens Pdf

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published in Latin American Perspectives--a theoretical and scholarly journal focused on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The reader is organized into thematic sections that focus on work, politics, and culture, and each section includes substantive introductions that identify key issues, trends, and debates in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region. Demonstrating the rich and multidisciplinary nature of Latin American studies, this collection of timely, empirical studies promotes critical thinking about women's place and power; about theory and research strategies; and about contemporary economic, political, and social conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Valuable as both a supplementary or primary text, Rereading Women makes a convincing claim for a materialist feminist analysis. It convincingly shows why women have become an increasingly important subject of research, acknowledges their gains and struggles over time, and explores the contributions that feminist theory has made toward the recognition of gender as a relevant--indeed essential--category for analyzing the political economy of development.

Author : Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520909070

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Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America by Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America Pdf

The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women’s participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.

Author : Karen Kampwirth
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271037097

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Gender and Populism in Latin America by Karen Kampwirth Pdf

Analyzes populist movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela from a gender perspective. Considers the role of masculinity and femininity in populist leadership, the impact of populism on democracy and feminism, and women's critical roles as followers of these leaders. --From publisher description.

Author : Mala Htun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521870566

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Inclusion without Representation in Latin America by Mala Htun Pdf

This book analyzes how Latin American countries modified their institutions to promote the inclusion of women, Afrodescendants, and indigenous peoples.