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_bWIL.C
100 _aWilliams,Susan H,Ed.
245 0 0 _aConstituting equality :
_bgender equality and comparative constitutional law /
_cedited by Susan H. Williams.
260 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2009.
300 _axv, 362 p. ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aGender 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 / VerĂ³nica 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.
650 0 _aSex discrimination against women
650 0 _aWomen's rights.
650 0 _aConstitutional law.
700 1 _aWilliams, Susan Hoffman,
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