Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

CONSTITUTING EQUALITY

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: Comparative Constitutional Law, Gender Equality, and Constitutional Design

pp 1-26

SECTION ONE - STRUCTURE

pp 27-28

1 - Gender Quotas in Politics – A Constitutional Challenge

pp 29-52

2 - Equality, Representation, and Challenge to Hierarchy: Justifying Electoral Quotas for Women

pp 53-72

SECTION TWO - RIGHTS

pp 73-74

3 - More than Rights

pp 75-92

4 - Perfectionism and Fundamentalism in the Application of the German Abortion Laws

pp 93-106

5 - Moral Authority in English and American Abortion Law

pp 107-134

SECTION THREE - CULTURE/RELIGION AND GENDER EQUALITY

pp 135-136

6 - Must Feminists Support Entrenchment of Sex Equality? Lessons from Quebec

pp 137-156

7 - Deconstructing the East/West Binary: Substantive Equality and Islamic Marriage in a Comparative Dialogue

pp 157-172

8 - Conflicting Agendas? Women's Rights and Customary Law in African Constitutional Reform

pp 173-194

9 - Gender Equality and the Rule of Law in Liberia: Statutory Law, Customary Law, and the Status of Women

pp 195-212

SECTION FOUR - CONSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

pp 213-214

10 - Constitutional Incorporation of International and Comparative Human Rights Law: The Colombian Constitutional Court Decision C-355/2006

pp 215-247

11 - Guatemalan Transnational Feminists: How Their Search for Constitutional Equality Interplays with International Law

pp 248-270

SECTION FIVE - WOMEN IN THE PROCESS OF CONSTITUTION MAKING

pp 271-272

12 - Women in the Constitutional Drafting Process in Burma

pp 273-289

13 - Founding Mothers for a Palestinian Constitution?

pp 290-311

Conclusion: Gender Equality and the Idea of a Constitution: Entrenchment, Jurisdiction, and Interpretation

pp 312-350

Index

pp 351-362