Frontiers of Gender Equality

Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives

edited by Rebecca J. Cook
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

TABLE OF CONTENTS, WITH ABSTRACTS

Foreword by Cecilia Medina Quiroga

Introduction: Many Paths to Gender Equality
by Rebecca J. Cook 24 pages, online.

1. Faces of Gender Inequality,
by Sophia Moreau.
2. Challenging the Frontiers of Gender Equality: Women at Work
by Sandra Fredman.
3. A Prioritarian Account of Gender Equality
by Shreya Atrey.
4.Queer Rights Talk: The Rhetoric of Equality Rights for LGBTQ+ Peoples
by Daniel Del Gobbo.
5. CEDAW Reservations and Contested Equality Claims
by Siobhán Mullally.
6. Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals:
Discursive Practices in Uncertain Times
by Marieme S. Lo.
International Treaties
7.Fifty Years On: The Curious Case of Intersectional Discrimination in the ICCPR, with a Postscrip
by Shreya Atrey.
8. Like Birds of a Feather? ICESCR and Women’s Socioeconomic Equality
by Meghan Campbell.
9. Gender Equality Untethered? CEDAW’s Contribution to Intersectionality
by Loveday Hodson.
Regional Treaties
10. Gender Equality in the European Court of Human Rights
by Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez
11. Gender Equality within the Framework of the European Social Charter
by Karin Lukas and Colm Ó Cinnéide.
12. Transformative Gender Equality in the Inter-American System of Human Rights
by Verónica Undurraga.
13. African Gender Equalities
by Fareda Banda.
14. Advancing Gender Equality through the Arab Charter on Human Rights
by Mervat Rishmawi. Abstract online. Executive Summary in English. Panel
discussion.
15. Breathing Life into Equality: The Vishaka Case
by Naina Kapur
16.Gender Equality in Health Care: Reenvisioning CEDAW General Recommendation 24
by Joanna N. Erdman and Mariana Prandini Assis. (Portuguese translation of chapter)
17. Equality for Indigenous Women: McIvor v. Canada
by Cheryl Suzack.
18. Gender Equality and the Scope of Religious Freedom in S.A.S. v. France
by Ilias Trispiotis.
19. Institutional Dimensions of Gender Equality: The Maria da Penha Case
by Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado and Mariana Mota Prado.
(Portuguese translation of chapter)
20. Restoring Mai Mapingure’s Equal Citizenship
by Charles G. Ngwena and Rebecca J. Cook.

Conclusion.

Taking Stock of Gender Equality
by Francisca Pou Giménez.

Table of Cases
Table of Legislation, Treaties, and Other Relevant Instruments
Notes
Index
Contributors
Acknowledgments

Symposium

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Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives,

ed. Rebecca J. Cook,
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Journal of law and equality:

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Special issue online here

Portuguese translations of Chapters 16 and 19: Igualdade de Gênero nos Cuidados de Saúde: Reimaginando a Recomendação Geral 24 da CEDAW,

Joanna N. Erdman and Mariana Prandini
Assis. Rev. Direito e Práxis, Rio de Janeiro,
Vol.14, N.04, 2023, p.2770-2804, ONLINE HERE.

Dimensões Institucionais da Igualdade
de Gênero: o Caso Maria da Penha,

Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado
and Mariana Mota Prado. Rev. Direito e Práxis,
Rio de Janeiro, Vol.13, N.04, 2022, p. 2404-2443.
ONLINE HERE.

IACL INTERVIEW

(International Association of Constitutional Law)
IS ONLINE HERE.

ARAB WORLD: PANEL DISCUSSION at
LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY,

BEIRUT, October 9, 2023. SUMMARY ONLINE.