ISBN:
9789400761995
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 323 p, digital)
Series Statement:
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 24
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Keywords:
Constitutional law
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Law
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Law
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Constitutional law
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Lateinamerika
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Geschlecht
;
Sexualität
;
Rechtsprechung
Abstract:
Translated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women’s rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of some of the most important decisions made by Latin American national courts, as well as those made by international legal bodies, that affect the rights and interests of these groups. Specially selected for their depth of argument and value as exemplars, the studies of good legal practice chart the path of the region’s normative values of justice as they have evolved away from a partial, and patriarchal, exercise of the law. They show how cases with vastly differing contexts such as, property rights and domestic violence have resulted in a mixed body of Latin American law. Some decisions are protective of women’s and minority rights. Some assess the wider social impacts of case law in which recognition of the discrete legal identities within households challenges established precepts, including religious ones. Other cases have been chosen as cautionary examples of bad decision-making and for the poverty of their legal debate. Updated to include the latest relevant jurisprudence from across the continent, this book is an informed, cohesive and comprehensive guide to understanding women’s and gender-based rights in Latin America
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Biographies; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Citizenship; 2.1 Citizenship as an Aspiration: Equality, Reparation, and Emancipation; 2.1.1 Equality Before the Law; 2.1.1.1 Matters for Debate; 2.1.2 Reparation; 2.1.2.1 Matters for Debate; Progress; Quota Laws; 2.1.3 Emancipation; 2.1.3.1 Matters for Debate; 2.2 Citizenship as Belonging: Identity and Culture; 2.2.1 Identity; 2.2.1.1 Matters for Debate; 2.2.2 Culture; 2.2.2.1 Matters for Debate; Chapter 3: Family; 3.1 Feminist Criticism of the Nuclear Family; 3.2 Equality of Rights Within the Family
Description / Table of Contents:
3.2.1 First Problem: Moral Imperatives as Limits to Equality3.2.1.1 Matters for Debate; The Right to Challenge Paternity; The Regulatory Effect of the Recognition of Rights to de facto Couples; 3.2.2 Second Problem: Equality as a Means to Not Discriminate Men; 3.2.2.1 Matters for Debate; 3.3 Maternity and Care; 3.3.1 Assessment of Maternity; 3.3.1.1 Matters for Debate; Maternity as a Natural Quality; The Indetermination of the Cultural Parameter; 3.3.2 The Cultural Assessment of Care Work; 3.3.2.1 Matters for Debate; First Matter for Debate: The Myth of Domesticity
Description / Table of Contents:
The Trap of the Marital Society3.4 Sexual and Non Sexual Violence Within the Family; 3.4.1 Resignation in the Face of Violence as a Means of Protecting the Family; 3.4.1.1 Matters for Debate; 3.4.2 Women's Accountability; 3.4.2.1 Matters for Debate; Chapter 4: Health; 4.1 The Right to Life and the Right to Health; 4.2 Women's Health; 4.2.1 Sterilization, Health, or Autonomy?; 4.2.1.1 Matters for Debate; 4.2.2 The Religious Beliefs of Healthcare Providers; 4.2.2.1 Matters for Debate; 4.3 Abortion; 4.3.1 The Right to Confidentiality and the Obligation to Report; 4.3.1.1 Matters for Debate
Description / Table of Contents:
4.3.2 Legal Insecurity of Non Punishable Abortion4.3.2.1 Matters for Debate; 4.3.3 Anencephaly; 4.3.3.1 Matters for Debate; 4.4 Health, Technology, and Contraception; 4.4.1 Emergency Contraception; 4.4.1.1 Matters for Debate; 4.4.2 Assisted Reproduction; 4.4.2.1 Matters for Debate; 4.5 The Right to Health and Adolescence; 4.5.1 Progressive Autonomy; 4.5.1.1 First Matter for Debate; 4.5.1.2 Second Matter for Debate; 4.5.2 The Best Interest of the Child, the Right to Identity; 4.5.2.1 Matters for Debate; Chapter 5: Property
Description / Table of Contents:
5.1 The Positive and Negative Consequences of Linking the Feminine Identity to Maternity and Access to Property5.1.1 The Protection of the Family and of the Mother in the Distribution of Goods in the Community Property: The Recognition of Reproductive Work; 5.1.1.1 Matters for Debate; 5.1.2 The Feminine Identity, Reproductive Work and Access to Commercial Property; 5.1.2.1 Matters for Debate; 5.2 The Consecration of Privileged Access to Property; 5.2.1 Women as Victims of Displacement and the Need for Immediate Intervention by the State: Damage Compensation with Gender Perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
5.2.1.1 Matters for Debate
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-6199-5
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