TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irving, Helen (Ed.)
TI  - Women as constitution-makers : : case studies from the new democratic era [electronic resource]
SN  - 9781108686358 (ebook) :
U1  - 342.0082 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Constitutional Law
N1  - 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
N2  - 	
"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"
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108686358
ER  -