Women Making Constitutions

New Politics and Comparative Perspectives

A. Dobrowolsky, V. Hart, A. Dobrowolsky, V. Hart

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9781403903617
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403944085
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Women, New Politics and Constitutional Change
• 1 Constitutional Rights Discourse: Canadian and South African Feminist Engagements
• 2 Balancing Strategies: Aboriginal Women and Constitutional Rights in Canada
• 3 Gender and Accountability
• 4 Women in Elected Office in the UK, 1992–2002: Struggles, Achievements and Possible Sea Change
• 5 Towards a New Politics? Women and the Constitutional Change in Scotland
• 6 Towards Substantive Representation: Women and Politics in South Africa
• 7 Redesigning the Polity: Europe, Women and Constitutional Politics in the UK
• 8 The Politics of Human Rights and Gender Equality in Northern Ireland
• 9 Women’s Rights after the Human Rights Act 1998
• 10 ‘Heightened Scrutiny’: A Judicial Route to Constitutional Equality for US Women
• 11 Increased Rights and Representation: Women and the Post-devolution Equality Agenda in Wales
• 12 Mainstreaming Equality in Northern Ireland
• 13 Reviewing the UK Equality Agenda in the Context of Constitutional Change
• 14 Group-differentiated Cultural Rights, Constitutionalism and Feminism
• 15 Women, Constitutionalism and Contestation: Some Tentative Conclusions
• References
• Index