Frontiers of Gender Equality : : Transnational Legal Perspectives / / ed. by Rebecca J. Cook.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Assis, Mariana Prandini,; Atrey, Shreya,; Banda, Fareda,; Campbell, Meghan,; Cinnéide, Colm Ó,; Cook, Rebecca J.,; Erdman, Joanna N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cook, Rebecca J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (616 p.)

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples.Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social, and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion, and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination.With the benefit of hindsight, the book’s contributors reconstruct gender equalities in concrete situations. Given the increasingly porous exchanges between domestic and international law, various national, regional, and international decisions and texts are examined to determine how better to breathe life into equality from the perspectives, for instance, of Indigenous and Muslim women, those who were violated sexually and physically, and those needing access to necessary health care, including abortion. The conclusion suggests areas of future research, including how to translate the concept of intersectionality into normative and institutional settings, which will assist in promoting the goals of gender equality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction. Many Paths to Gender Equality -- PART I Understanding Gender Inequality and Equality -- Chapter 1 Faces of Gender Inequality -- Chapter 2 Challenging the Frontiers of Gender Equality: Women at Work -- Chapter 3 A Prioritarian Account of Gender Equality -- Chapter 4 Queer Rights Talk: The Rhetoric of Equality Rights for LGBTQ+ Peoples -- Chapter 5 CEDAW Reservations and Contested Equality Claims -- Chapter 6 Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals: Discursive Practices in Uncertain Times -- PART II Advancing Gender Equality through Human Rights Treaties -- International Treaties -- Chapter 7 Fifty Years On: The Curious Case of Intersectional Discrimination in the ICCPR, with a Postscript -- Chapter 8 Like Birds of a Feather? ICESCR and Women’s Socioeconomic Equality -- Chapter 9 Gender Equality Untethered? CEDAW’s Contribution to Intersectionality -- Regional Treaties -- Chapter 10 Gender Equality in the European Court of Human Rights -- Chapter 11 Gender Equality within the Framework of the European Social Charter -- Chapter 12 Transformative Gender Equality in the Inter-American System of Human Rights -- Chapter 13 African Gender Equalities -- Chapter 14 Advancing Gender Equality through the Arab Charter on Human Rights -- PART III Looking Back to Move Forward -- Chapter 15 Breathing Life into Equality: The Vishaka Case -- Chapter 16 Gender Equality in Health Care: Reenvisioning CEDAW General Recommendation 24 -- Chapter 17 Equality for Indigenous Women: McIvor v. Canada -- Chapter 18 Gender Equality and the Scope of Religious Freedom in S.A.S. v. France -- Chapter 19 Institutional Dimensions of Gender Equality: The Maria da Penha Case -- Chapter 20 Restoring Mai Mapingure’s Equal Citizenship -- Conclusion: Taking Stock of Gender Equality -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation,Treaties, and Other Relevant Instruments -- Index -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments