Gender Equality in Law: Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5099-3303-7
Verlag: HART PUB

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Human Rights Law in Perspectiv

Gender equality law in Czechia, as in other parts of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe, is facing serious challenges. When obliged to adopt, interpret and apply anti-discrimination law as a condition of membership of the EU, Czech legislators and judges have repeatedly expressed hostility and demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding of key ideas underpinning it. This important new study explores this scepticism to gender equality law, examining it with reference to legal and socio-legal developments that started in the state-socialist past and that remain relevant today.

The book examines legal developments in gender-relevant areas, most importantly in equality and anti-discrimination law. But it goes further, shedding light on the underlying understandings of key concepts such as women, gender, equality, discrimination and rights. In so doing, it shows the fundamental intellectual and conceptual difficulties faced by gender equality law in Czechia. These include an essentialist understanding of differences between men and women, a notion that equality and anti-discrimination law is incompatible with freedom, and a perception that existing laws are objective and neutral, while any new gender-progressive regulation of social relations is an unacceptable interference with the 'natural social order'. Timely and provocative, this book will be required reading for all scholars of equality and gender and the law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Havelkova, Barbara

Havelková, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Mittel- und Osteuropa, Russland
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
Part I: State Socialism
2. The Three Stages of Regulation of Women and Gender
3. State-Socialist Law and Rights
4. Equality as Socio-Economic Levelling
5. Blindness to Gender and Patriarchy

Part II: Post-Socialism
6. Women and Gender After 1989
7. Post-Socialist Law and Rights
8. Equality and Anti-Discrimination after 1989: Resisting the Ideas and the Legal Concepts
9. Wanted: Gender and Feminism
10. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Havelková, Barbara
Barbara Havelková is the Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at the University of Oxford.

Barbara Havelková is the Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at the University of Oxford.