Book contents
- Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- 1 The Constitutional Establishment of the Gender Order
- 2 Inclusive Constitutionalism and Its Limits
- 3 Participatory Constitutionalism
- 4 Transformative Gender Constitutionalism
- 5 Toward a Constitutional Gender Erasure or a Constitutional Gender Reaffirmation?
- Conclusion
- Index
4 - Transformative Gender Constitutionalism
Toward an Egalitarian Family Structure and Sexual and Reproductive Order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2022
- Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- 1 The Constitutional Establishment of the Gender Order
- 2 Inclusive Constitutionalism and Its Limits
- 3 Participatory Constitutionalism
- 4 Transformative Gender Constitutionalism
- 5 Toward a Constitutional Gender Erasure or a Constitutional Gender Reaffirmation?
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 describes how women, under participatory constitutionalism, are succeeding in broadening the constitutional agenda in the current century in ways that foreground the inequalities rooted in the “private sphere,” thus calling for a new form of gender transformative constitutionalism. In particular, new constitutional agendas are flourishing around the world, covering topics such as intimate partner violence and violence against women; the fuller recognition of women’s sexual and reproductive autonomy; constitutionally grounded assistance to motherhood and reproduction; and the importance of a care-centered understanding of fatherhood challenging hegemonic masculinities, removing the remaining sex-based, care-related differentiations, and challenging of gender-neutral legal norms that shape interpersonal relations and implicit gender role assumptions.
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- Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's CitizenshipA Struggle for Transformative Inclusion, pp. 211 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022