Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America

Description

This book discusses to what extent and how constitutional design and practice in Latin America have helped in combatting the subordination of women and LGBTQIA+ people. Covering 11 jurisdictions, the chapters identify the main elements of the constitutional gender order and survey jurisprudential and legislative developments in different areas, incorporating contextual analysis and references to history, political dynamics, social movements, feminist struggles, normative efficacy, and policy. In the context of a constitutionalism that has been celebrated as particularly innovative and socially engaged, the book assesses constitutional performance in the quest to supersede the separate gendered spheres tradition and the subordination of women and sexual minorities to heteronormative hegemony. It fills an important gap in the field of gender and constitutionalism, which has paid very little attention to Latin America compared to the Anglo-American legal world and continental Europe. It identifies regional trends, but also variables which account for the diversity of approaches in various jurisdictions. The book provides much-needed insight into matters that are relevant for legal and socio-legal scholars, an ever-growing number of social actors and movements, and all those interested in comparative constitutionalism and in the intersections between law and gender. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Comparative Landscapes of Gender and Constitutionalism in Latin America Chapter 1 Women, Gender, Human Rights, and Constitutionalism in Costa Rica Chapter 2 Women and LGBTQIA+ Rights in Colombia Chapter 3 Gender Constitutionalism in Ecuador Chapter 4 Bolivian Constitutionalism from the Perspective of Gender and Intersectionality Chapter 5 Gender and Sexuality in the Brazilian Supreme Court: Expansion of Rights, Ambivalent Reasoning, and Telling Omissions Chapter 6 Gender and Constitutionalism in Mexico Chapter 7 The Ambivalent and Hetero-Cis-Normative Peruvian Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Twenty-First Century Chapter 8 The Role of Chilean Constitutional Law in Gender (In)Equality Chapter 9 Women, Gender, Colonialism, and Constitutional Law in Puerto Rico Chapter 10 Constitutionalizing Gender: A View from Argentina Chapter 11 Gender and the Constitution in Uruguay Index