Constitutions and Gender

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Constitutions and Gender is written by Helen Irving and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1784716960 (ISBN 10) and 9781784716967 (ISBN 13).

Constitutions and gender is a new and exciting field, attracting scholarly attention and influencing practice around the world. This timely handbook features contributions from leading pioneers and younger scholars, applying a gendered lens to constitution-making and design, constitutional practice and citizenship, and constitutional challenges to gender equality rights and values. It offers a gendered perspective on the constitutional text and record of multiple jurisdictions, from the long-established, to the world’s newly emerging democracies. Constitutions and Gender portrays a profound shift in our understanding of what constitutions stand for and what they do.