Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism Towards a New Synthesis

by Rubio-Marin, Ruth; Kymlicka, Will

• ISBN13: 9780198829621
• ISBN10: 0198829620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-12-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ruth Rubio-Marin is Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sevilla as well as member of the Faculty of The Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University. Her publiscations include Human Rights and Immigration (editor, OUP, 2014), The Gender of Reparations: Subverting Sexual Hierarchies while Redressing Human Rights Violations (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Immigration as a Democratic Challenge, (CUP, 2000), The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence (co-editor, CUP, 2004), and Transforming Gender Citizenship (forthcoming, CUP, 2018).

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University, and a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program, Central European University, Budapest. His publications include Zoopolis: A Political theory of Animal Rights (OUP, 2011), The Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies (co-editor, OUP, 2017), Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Arab World (co-editor, OUP, 2014), and Multicultural Odysseys (OUP, 2007). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Table of Contents

1. The Participatory Turn in Gender Equality and its Relevance for Multicultural Feminism, Will Kymlicka and Ruth Rubio-Marin
2. Democratizing Against the Grain, Anne Phillips
3. Women's Participation in the Public Domain Under Human Rights Law: Towards a Participatory Equality Paradigm Shift?, Ruth Rubio-Marin
4. The Combination of Gender and Ethnic Quotas in Electoral Politics, Melanie Hughes
5. Gender Parity in the Religious and Political Sphere of Israel, Meital Pinto
6. Legal Pluralism, Gender Equality, and Parity of Participation: Constitutional Issues Concerning Customary Law in Liberia, Susan H. Williams
7. The Challenges of Parity: Increasing Women's Participation in Informal Justice Systems within Sub-Saharan Africa, Johanna Bond
8. Parity Democracy, Legal Pluralism and Human Rights of Indigenous Women: An Outlook from Mexico, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
9. Challenging Male Dominance in Norm-Making in Contexts of Legal Pluralism: Insights from the Andes, Rachel Sieder and Anna Barrera Vivero