Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, Melike Sayoglu

Courting Gender Justice

Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Courting Gender Justice explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. Drawing comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey, the book offers interviews with human rights and feminist activists and lawyers, grounding the law in the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend their rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190932831
• ISBN-10: 019093283X
• Artikelnr.: 54032124

Autorenporträt

Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University. Melike Sayoglu is a Ph.D. Candidate at Clark University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Cases: European Court of Human Rights
* Note on Transliteration
* Chapter 1: Gender Discrimination Cases at the European Court of Human
Rights: Why So Few?
* Chapter 2: What Gender Discrimination? Psychological and
Socio-Cultural Barriers
* Chapter 3: Police, Prosecutors, and Ping-Pong: Legal Barriers
* Chapter 4: Whose Rights are Human Rights? The Gender Gap Between
Russian Feminist, LGBT, and Human Rights Networks
* Chapter 5: International Obstacles to Russian Gender Discrimination
Cases at the European Court of Human Rights
* Chapter 6: Turkish Gender Discrimination Cases in Domestic and
International Courts
* Chapter 7: Conclusion
* References
* Appendix: Interviews
* Index