Gender equality in law : uncovering the legacies of Czech State socialism / Barbara Havelková.
2017
KJP2467.W65 H38 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Gender equality in law : uncovering the legacies of Czech State socialism / Barbara Havelková.
Imprint
Oxford, UK ; Portland, OR, USA : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Copyright
©2017.
Description
xxviii, 337 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
Human rights law in perspective ; v. 22.
Formatted Contents Note
The three stages of regulation of woman and gender
State-socialist law and rights
Equality as socio-economic levelling
Blindness to gender and patriarchy
Women and gender after 1989
Post-Socialist law and rights
Equality and anti-discrimination after 1989: resisting the ideas and the legal concepts - Wanted: gender and feminism.
State-socialist law and rights
Equality as socio-economic levelling
Blindness to gender and patriarchy
Women and gender after 1989
Post-Socialist law and rights
Equality and anti-discrimination after 1989: resisting the ideas and the legal concepts - Wanted: gender and feminism.
Summary
"In Gender Equality in Law: Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism, Barbara Havelková offers a sober and sophisticated socio-legal account of gender equality law in Czechia. Tracing gender equality norms from their origins under state socialism, Havelková shows how the dominant understanding of the differences between women and men as natural and innate combined with a post-socialist understanding of rights as freedom to shape the views of key Czech legal actors and to thwart the transformative potential of EU sex discrimination law. Havelková's compelling feminist legal genealogy of gender equality in Czechia illuminates the path dependency of gender norms and the antipathy to substantive gender equality that is common among the formerly state-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Her deft analysis of the relationship between gender and legal norms is especially relevant today as the legitimacy of gender equality laws is increasingly precarious."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Available in Other Form
Online version: Havelková, Barbara, 1980- Gender equality in law. Oxford [UK] ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017
Call Number
KJP2467.W65 H38 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781509905867 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1509905863 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1509905863 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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