Women Making Constitutions: New Politics and Comparative Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Women, New Politics and Constitutional Change....Pages 1-19
Constitutional Rights Discourse: Canadian and South African Feminist Engagements....Pages 20-35
Balancing Strategies: Aboriginal Women and Constitutional Rights in Canada....Pages 36-51
Gender and Accountability....Pages 52-67
Women in Elected Office in the UK, 1992–2002: Struggles, Achievements and Possible Sea Change....Pages 68-83
Towards a New Politics? Women and the Constitutional Change in Scotland....Pages 84-98
Towards Substantive Representation: Women and Politics in South Africa....Pages 99-117
Redesigning the Polity: Europe, Women and Constitutional Politics in the UK....Pages 118-131
The Politics of Human Rights and Gender Equality in Northern Ireland....Pages 132-141
Women’s Rights after the Human Rights Act 1998....Pages 142-154
‘Heightened Scrutiny’: A Judicial Route to Constitutional Equality for US Women....Pages 155-172
Increased Rights and Representation: Women and the Post-devolution Equality Agenda in Wales....Pages 173-184
Mainstreaming Equality in Northern Ireland....Pages 185-199
Reviewing the UK Equality Agenda in the Context of Constitutional Change....Pages 200-215
Group-differentiated Cultural Rights, Constitutionalism and Feminism....Pages 216-235
Women, Constitutionalism and Contestation: Some Tentative Conclusions....Pages 236-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-277