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Mutinies for Equality studies recent transformations in the area of law and gender in modern India. It tackles legal and social developments with regard to family life, sexuality, motherhood, surrogacy, erotic labour, sexual harassment in the workplace and violence against women, among others. It analyses reform efforts towards women's rights and LGBTIQ rights and attempts to situate where a reform has taken place, by whom it was brought about, and what impact it has had on society. It engages with protagonists who shape the debate around law and gender and locates their efforts into a socio-political context, thereby showing that the discourses around law and gender are closely connected to broader debates around legal pluralism, secularism and religion, identity, culture, nationalism, and family. The book offers compelling evidence that the drivers of change are emerging from beyond the traditional institutions of courts and parliament, and that to understand the everyday implications of legal reforms, it is important to look beyond these institutional sources.

Summary: This paper reflects on the problem of gender balance in economic decision-making, considers its legislative roots, and offers potential guidance for its solution. The paper takes into account the origin of positive action and effective equality in the scope of EU legislation and CJEU case law and tackles the most troublesome issues regarding the new initiative of making equality in boards effective. It analyses gender equality in three approaches of positive action. Firstly, the fragile approach at the EU level, despite the rich historical impact it has had. Secondly, positive action on CJEU terrain where standards of equality have been set by useful case law. Finally, the form of legislative positive action which aimed to break the glass ceiling in corporate boards – the 'Women on Boards Directive'. With such an approach, the paper offers the authors' view on the stability of positive action and an interpretation of the above-mentioned directive.

This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce, and parenting. Critically re-conceptualizing 'wellbeing' and unpacking its multiple dimensions in the context of Muslim families, it investigates how migrants make sense of and draw on different norms, laws, and regimes of knowledge as they navigate different aspects of family relations and life in a transnational social space.

"This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce and parenting. Critically re-conceptualising 'wellbeing' and unpacking its multiple dimensions in the context of Muslim families, it investigates how migrants make sense of and draw on different norms, laws, and regimes of knowledge as they navigate different aspects of family relations and life in a transnational social space. With attention to issues such as registration of marriage, civil versus religious marriage, spousal roles and rights, polygamy, parenting, child wellbeing, and everyday security, the authors offer national and comparative case studies of Muslim families from different parts of the world, covering different family bonds and relations, within both extended and nuclear families. Based on empirical research in the Nordic region and further afield, this volume affords a more complete understanding of the practices of transnational migrant families, as well as the processes through which family relations and rights are negotiated between family members and with state institutions and laws, whilst contributing to the growing literature on migrant wellbeing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social policy with interests in migration and transnational communities, wellbeing and the family"--

"This volume examines how gender relations were regulated in ancient Near Eastern and biblical law. The textual corpus examined includes the various pertinent law collections, royal decrees and instructions from Mesopotamia and Hatti, and the three biblical legal collections. Peled explores issues beginning with the wide societal perspective of gender equality and inequality, continues to the institutional perspective of economy, palace and temple, the family, and lastly, sex crimes. All the texts mentioned or referred to in the book are given in an appendix, both in the original languages and in English translation, allowing scholars to access the primary sources for themselves. Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on Near Eastern society and culture, and gender in the ancient world more broadly"--

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- Part I Women and the law: Addressing Inequality -- 1 IN PURSUIT OF GENDER-RESPONSIVE LEGISLATION: Transforming women's lives through the law -- 2 WOMEN'S RIGHTS - THE STATE OF PLAY: How far have we come since the Beijing Declaration? -- Part II Legislating for women: Successes and setbacks in delivering gender-responsive outcomes for women -- 3 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW: When good intentions go awry in practice -- 4 TOWARDS A GENDER-TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH TO ABORTION: Legislative perspectives from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa -- 5 EMPLOYING THE LAW FOR WOMEN: Gender, work and legal regulation in Australi -- 6 ENHANCING EQUALITY IN POLITICAL LIFE: Successes and limitations with electoral gender quotas -- Part III Legislating with women in mind -- 7 GENDER, RACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: A feminist critique -- 8 'NO ONE LEFT BEHIND'?: Gender equality in taxation and the UN 2030 Global Agenda -- 9 WOMEN IN ANTICORRUPTION LAWS: The case for more gender-responsive international treaties -- Part IV Accountability for embedding women's rights in domestic law -- 10 CEDAW AND GLOBAL STANDARDS FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS: The Convention's actual and potential influence as an accountability mechanism for gender-sensitive legislation -- 11 LIGHTING THE SPARK: Reimagining the statutory landscape through the Feminist Legislation Project -- 12 GENDER AUDITS AND LEGISLATIVE SCRUTINY: Do parliamentary human rights bodies have a role to play? -- 13 CONCLUSION - WOMEN AND THE LAW: The challenges ahead for gender-responsive legislation -- INDEX.

"The law is a well-known tool to fight gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women's rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the world's 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. Part I outlines what progress has been made to date on eradicating gender inequality, and insights into the law's potential as one lever in the global struggle for equality. Parts II and III go on to explore concrete areas of law, with case studies from multiple jurisdictions that examine how well domestic legislation is working for women. The authors bring their critical lens to areas of law often considered from a gender perspective - gender-based violence, women's reproductive health, labour and gender equality quotas - while bringing much-needed analysis to issues often ignored from gender debates, such as taxation, environmental justice and good governance. Part IV seeks to move from a theoretical goal of greater accountability to a practical one. It explores both accountability for international women's rights norms at the domestic level and the potential behind feminist approaches to legislation to deliver laws that work for women. Written for students, academics, legislators and policymakers engaged in international women's 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"--

This volume provides an analysis of the current trends of debate on the Uniform Civil Code located within a highly charged and communally vitiated political scenario and goes on to expose the communal undertones of some recent judicial pronouncements.