Feminist critiques of law have challenged claims of the laws neutrality over the past few decades. While these critiques have been powerful, the task of designing laws to take gender into account has received much less attention. This book offers rich insights into the complexities of taking womens lives seriously in legislative design across a range of legal fields. Its optimism that the law can be an important site for social change, along with its practical guidance, are inspiring.
Hilary Charlesworth, Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School and Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University, Australia
No country in the world has entirely eliminated discrimination against women in law and practice. Not only have we witnessed profound regression on womens rights in some quarters of the world, but the risk of a roll-back of the progress made globally towards gender-equality has become increasingly clear. This insightful compilation of chapters on diverse aspects of womens lives and the law will undoubtedly be an important resource and tool for legal practitioners, policy-makers, and activists who, in the aftermath of a once-in-a-century global health and economic crisis, are now faced with the daunting but critical task of building an equitable and just future for all based on a transformative vision of womens human rights.
Melissa Upreti, Vice Chair of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
International Womens Rights Law and Gender Equality
The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance womens rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the worlds leading experts on gender equality.
Drawing on domestic examples and international law, it provides a primer of theory alongside tangible and practical solutions to fulfil the promise of the law to deliver equality between men and women. seeks to move from a theoretical goal of greater accountability to a practical one. It explores both accountability for international womens rights norms at the domestic level and the potential of feminist approaches to legislation to deliver laws that work for women.
Written for students, academics, legislators and policymakers engaged in international womens rights law, gender equality, government accountability and feminist legal theory, this book has tremendous transformative potential to drive forward legal change towards the eradication of gender inequality.
Ramona Vijeyarasa is a global scholar of gender equality. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research has helped shape theory and practice in areas of migration and trafficking, human rights and international womens rights. Ramona is the Chief Investigator behind the Gender Legislative Index, a tool used to rank and score legislation for its gender-responsiveness. She is the author of the academic best-seller Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims (2015) and a plethora of academic, policy and general media publications on law and gender issues. Ramona has been the recipient of a number of awards and grants, including from the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia (20202021) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (20202022). She was the 2020 Womens Leadership Institute of Australia Research Fellow. Before joining academia, Ramona held several positions related to womens rights in international organisations, and local and international NGOs.
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International Womens Rights Law and Gender Equality
Making the Law Work for Women
Edited by Ramona Vijeyarasa
First published 2021
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Names: Tackling Gender Inequality Through the Law (Conference) (2020 : University of Technology, Sydney) | Vijeyarasa, Ramona, editor.
Title: International women's rights law and gender equality : making the law work for women / edited by Ramona Vijeyarasa.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies in gender and global politics |Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020057302 (print) | LCCN 2020057303 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367549428 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367549411 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003091257 (ebook)
