Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives

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Frontiers of Gender Equality introduces new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and explains the multiple dimensions of gender equality. The book provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national and international contexts and suggests areas of future research. 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. 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