Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Women as constitution-makers: the promises and the challenges of participation
Chapter 2. Women's movements and the recognition of gender equality in the constitution-making process in Morocco and Tunisia (2011-2014)
Chapter 3. Women and constitution-making in post-communist Romania
Chapter 4. Re-living yesterday's battles: women and constitution-making in post-Saddam Iraq
Chapter 5. Women's participation in peace-building and consitution-making in Somalia
Chapter 6. Feminist legalism: Colombian constitution-making in the 1990s
Chapter 7. Women and constitution-making in Turkey: from Ottoman modernism to a constitutionalism of women's platform
Chapter 8. Egypt's tale of two constitutions: diverging gendered processes and outcomes
Chapter 9. Dialogic democracy, feminist theory and women's participation in constitution-making

Includes index.

"That a constitution should express the will of 'the people' is a long-standing principle, but the identity of 'the people' has historically been narrow. Women, in particular, were not included. A shift, however, has recently occurred. Women's participation in constitution-making is now recognised as a democratic right. Women's demands to have their voices heard in both the processes of constitution-making and the text of their country's constitution, are gaining recognition. Campaigning for inclusion in their country's constitution-making, women have adopted innovative strategies to express their constitutional aspirations. This collection offers, for the first time, comprehensive case-studies of women's campaigns for constitutional equality in nine different countries that have undergone constitutional transformations in the 'participatory era.' Against a richly-contextualised historical and political background, each charts the actions and strategies of women participants, both formal and informal, and records their successes, failures and continuing hopes for constitutional equality"