scholarly journals Gender Equality and Legal Mobilization in the United Kingdom: Using Rights for Lobbying, Litigation, Defense, and Attack

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 169-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Millns ◽  
Charlotte Skeet
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right

Abstract This article analyzes women’s contemporary use of rights to mobilize and pursue claims for gender equality and gender justice in the United Kingdom. Empirically, the paper explores the growth of rights discourse and activity against the backdrop of a stronger constitutionalization of women’s rights at national, European, and international levels. It does this through an exploration of individual and collective lobbying and litigation strategies in relation to violence against women. The paper first examines this in the context of the right to bodily integrity through examples of the ways in which sexual violence and domestic abuse are addressed within the criminal justice system. The paper then addresses the right to be free from violence for women seeking refuge and asylum. The research reveals the need for varied strategies that target all aspects of the legal and political systems in order to ameliorate the protection and implementation of women’s rights.

Legal Mobilization, Transnational Activism, and Gender Equality in the EU

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 209-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A. Cichowski
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
National Level ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This article examines how EU rights and laws serve as legal opportunity structures for women’s rights activists in Europe. Further, it examines what effects this transnational activism has on the permanence and inclusion of public interests and gender equality in EU legal and political processes. The analysis examines the legal domain of EU women’s rights over a thirty-year period. Methodologically, the study relies on case law analysis, primary document collections, and interviews with non-governmental organizations and governmental elites at both the EU and the national level. I ask how legal mobilization can serve as a catalyst for institutional change (by influencing litigation and legislative action), and how this effects subsequent EU-level women’s rights mobilization and public inclusion.

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

Gender equality in different readings of Islam in post-revolutionary Iran

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
And Gender

This chapter offers an understanding of women's rights and gender equality based on three interpretations of Islam within the context of post-revolutionary Iran. The debate among different interpretations of Islam provides a foundation for the investigation of women's rights and gender equality in various readings of Islam not only in the regional dimensions of Iran, but also in the Islamic world. While some studies and academic discussions tend to use the term fundamentalism to refer to religious revival movements, particularly within Islamic traditions, such discussions often fail to distinguish reformist and other movements within Islam, therefore identifying all Islamic revival movements as fundamentalist or as part of fundamentalist movements.

scholarly journals O Movimento Sufragista Britânico na Imprensa Portuguesa (1908-1919)

2017 ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
João Paulo Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Passive Attitude

This paper analyses nine articles, written in the Portuguese press between 1908 and 1919, which focus on the activities of the British suffragette movement. The articles are taken from four contemporary periodicals: O Mundo, A Madrugada, A Mulher e a Criança and Alma Feminina. The first was a Republican daily newspaper, whilst the others were newspapers or magazines whose main purpose was the defence of women’s rights. The last of the four contains articles which were translated from the magazine Jus Suffragii and are analysed in this paper. Concepts such as imagology, reception theory, representation, propaganda and the polysystem theory were employed in the analysis of the articles. As different as the tactics of the Portuguese and British feminists were, the writers of the articles tended to consider all feminists as part of a single community who strived to defend basic human rights for women. Although an admiration for the suffragettes and their violent tactics transpires from the articles (which contrasts with the more passive attitude of Portuguese women), most of the writers were dismayed by the repression inflicted by the Police and the Government upon the suffragettes. This was due to the fact that the United Kingdom was considered to be a country where the right of free speech was believed to be paramount. Hence, some of the articles stress the biased attitudes of British institutions against the suffragettes.

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