The idea that constitutions are gendered is not new, but its recognition is the product of a revolution in thinking that began in the last decades of the twentieth century. As a field, it is attracting scholarly attention and influencing practice around the world. This timely Handbook features contributions from leading pioneers and younger scholars, applying a gendered lens to constitution-making and design, constitutional practice and citizenship, and constitutional challenges to gender equality rights and values.

Offering cutting-edge perspective on the constitutional text and record of multiple jurisdictions, from long-established to newly emerging democracies, Constitutions and Gender portrays a profound shift in our understanding of what constitutions stand for and what they do. Its central insight is that democratic constitutions must serve the needs and aspirations of all the people, and constitutional legitimacy requires opportunities for participation in both the fashioning and functioning of a country's constitution.

This challenging assessment is of relevance to scholars and practitioners of law and politics, and gender and feminism as well as practitioners and advisers involved in constitution-making.

Contributors include: C. Albertyn, M. Allen, D. Anagnostou, B. Baines, J. Bond, J. Bond, M. Davis, R. Dixon, K. Gelber, B. Goldblatt, H. Irving, V. Jackson, J. Kang, W. Lacey, S. Millns, C. Murray, R. Rubio-Marin, A. Stone, S. Suteu, S. Williams, J. Vickers, C. Wittke

About the Author
Edited by Helen Irving, Professor Emerita, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia

Reviews
'This timely book is the first in a series of Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law from Edward Elgar, which also produces a series ofResearch Handbooks in Comparative Law. This volume is the first of these handbooks to focus on gender. The editor, Helen Irving - professor of law at the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney, Australia - has compiled 19 impressive chapters that serve as a corrective to the marginalisation of women's experiences that is usually the case in most collections, which may have little or no coverage of gender issues.'
--Gender and Development



Book Information
ISBN 9781784716974
Author Helen Irving
Format Paperback
Page Count 576
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd