The Public Law of Gender

With the worldwide sweep of gender-neutral gender-equal or gender-sensitive public laws in international treaties national constitutions and statutes it is timely to document the raft of legal reform and to critically analyse its effectiveness. In demarcating the academic study of the public law of gender this book brings together leading lawyers political scientists historians and philosophers to examine law''s structuring of politics governing and gender in a new global frame. Of interest to constitutional and statutory designers advocates adjudicators and scholars the contributions explore how concepts such as equality accountability representation participation and rights depend on challenge or enlist gendered roles and/or categories. These enquiries suggest that the new public law of gender must confront the lapses in enforcement sincerity and coverage that are common in both national and international law and governance and critically and pluralistically recast the public/private distinction in family community religion customary and market domains.