Women, gender, and constitutionalism in Latin America
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Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2024
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POU GIMÉNEZ, Francisca, RUBIO MARIN, Ruth, UNDURRAGA VALDÉS, Verónica (editor/s), Women, gender, and constitutionalism in Latin America, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2024 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77823
Abstract
This book discusses to what extent and how constitutional design and practice in Latin America have helped in combatting the subordination of women and LGBTQIA+ people. Covering 11 jurisdictions, the chapters identify the main elements of the constitutional gender order and survey jurisprudential and legislative developments in different areas, incorporating contextual analysis and references to history, political dynamics, social movements, feminist struggles, normative efficacy, and policy. In the context of a constitutionalism that has been celebrated as particularly innovative and socially engaged, the book assesses constitutional performance in the quest to supersede the separate gendered spheres tradition and the subordination of women and sexual minorities to heteronormative hegemony. It fills an important gap in the field of gender and constitutionalism, which has paid very little attention to Latin America compared to the Anglo-American legal world and continental Europe. It identifies regional trends, but also variables which account for the diversity of approaches in various jurisdictions. The book provides much-needed insight into matters that are relevant for legal and socio-legal scholars, an ever-growing number of social actors and movements, and all those interested in comparative constitutionalism and in the intersections between law and gender.
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-- Comparative Landscapes of Gender and Constitutionalism in Latin America -- 1 Women, Gender, Human Rights, and Constitutionalism in Costa Rica -- 2 Women and LGBTQIA+ Rights in Colombia -- 3 Gender Constitutionalism in Ecuador -- 4 Bolivian Constitutionalism from the Perspective of Gender and Intersectionality -- 5 Gender and Sexuality in the Brazilian Supreme Court: Expansion of Rights, Ambivalent Reasoning, and Telling Omissions -- 6 Gender and Constitutionalism in Mexico -- 7 The Ambivalent and Hetero-Cis-Normative Peruvian Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Twenty-First Century -- 8 The Role of Chilean Constitutional Law in Gender (In)Equality -- 9 Women, Gender, Colonialism, and Constitutional Law in Puerto Rico -- 10 Constitutionalizing Gender: A View from Argentina -- 11 Gender and the Constitution in Uruguay
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Published online: 30 April 2024