Women Making Constitutions: New Politics and Comparative Perspectives

by A. Dobrowolsky, V. Hart

Overview

This volume provides a timely and revealing account of women's constitutional strategies and struggles. It compares and contrasts the latest constitutional developments within the United Kingdom with women's past and present struggles in countries including Canada, the United States and South Africa. Through theoretical engagement and practical experiences, the contributors develop crucial arguments on the nature and effect of constitutional change, equality, women's rights and representation. This shows how women, through their words and deeds, have challenged and shaped the nature and forms of constitutionalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403903617
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/04/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

CATHI ALBERTYN Professor of Law and Director, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa AMY BARTHOLOMEW Associate Professor, Department of Law, Carleton University, Canada ALICE BROWN Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, UK PAUL CHANEY Research Associate, Cardiff Univesrity, UK ANNE MARIE GOETZ Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK JOYCE GREEN Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Regina, Canada CYNTHIA HARRISON Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, The George Washington University, USA COLIN HARVEY Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, University of Leeds, UK BRONAGH HINDS Senior Fellow, Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queens University Belfast, UK FIONA MACKAY Lecturer in Politics, University of Edinburgh, UK SUSAN MILLNS Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Kent, UK RONALDA MURPHY Dalhousie University, Canada FIONA MYERS Researcher, UK MEG RUSSELL Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Policy, University College London, UK JUDITH SQUIRES Senior Lecturer in Politics, Bristol University, UK

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; A.Dobrowolsky & V.Hart Constitutional Rights Discourse: Canadian and South African Developments; R.Murphy Balancing Strategies: Aboriginal Women and Constitutional Rights in Canada; J.Green Gender and Accountability; A.M.Goetz Women in Elected Office in the UK 1992-2002: Struggles, Achievements and Possible Sea-Change; M.Russell Towards a New Politics? Women and Constitutional Change in Scotland; F.Mackay, F.Myers & A.Brown Towards Substantive Representation: Women and Politics in South Africa; C.Albertyn Redesigning the Polity: Europe, Women and Constitutional Politics; V.Hart The Politics of Human Rights and Gender Equality in Northern Ireland; C.Harvey Women's Rights After the Human Rights Act 1998; S.Millns 'Heightened Scrutiny': A Judicial Route to Constitutional Equality for US Women; C.Harrison Increased Rights and Representation: Women and the Post-Devolution Equality Agenda in Wales; P.Chaney Mainstreaming Equality in Northern Ireland; B.Hinds Reviewing the UK Equality Agenda in the Context of Constitutional Change; J.Squires Group-Differentiated Cultural Rights, Constitutionalism and Feminism; A.Bartholomew Women, Constitutionalism and Contestation: Some Tentative Conclusions; A.Dobrowolsky References