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BL
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1011097
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b765467
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| Title & Author
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Constituting equality : : gender equality and comparative constitutional law /\ edited by Susan H. Williams.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xv, 362 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511596383
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: 9780511596384
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0521898366
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9780521898362
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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 / Verónica 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.
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| Abstract
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The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality.
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Constitutional law.
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Sex discrimination against women-- Law and legislation.
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Women's rights.
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Constitutional law.
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LAW-- Gender the Law.
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Sex discrimination against women-- Law and legislation.
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Women's rights.
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| Dewey Classification
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342.08/78
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| LC Classification
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K3243.C66 2009eb
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| Added Entry
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Williams, Susan Hoffman,1960-
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