Constitutions and gender / edited by Helen Irving, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Helen Irving;
Women and participatory constitution-making / Silvia Suteu;
Women and constitution-making in South Africa / Catherine Albertyn;
Gender and post-colonial constitutions in sub-saharan Africa / Johanna Bond;
International institutions, constitution-making and gender / Christina Murray and Cindy Wittke;
Gender equality : international law and national constitutions / Wendy Lacey;
'Gendering' federal constitutions / Jill Vickers;
A practitioner's account : the constitution assessment for women's equality / Melanie Allen;
Gender equality, interpretation, and feminist pluralism / Vicki C. Jackson;
Gender and constitutionalism in the European Union / Susan Millns;
Gender equality and parity in European national constitutions / Dia Anagnostou;
Women judges on constitutional courts : why not nine women? / Beverley Baines;
Women's political citizenship in new European constitutionalism : between constitutional amendment and progressive interpretation / Ruth Rubio-Marín;
Indigenous women and constitutional recognition / Megan Davis;
Citizenship and nationality / Helen Irving;
Religion, custom, and legal pluralism / Susan H. Williams;
Constitutions and reproductive rights : convergence and non-convergence / Rosalind Dixon and Jade Bond;
Constitutions, gender and freedom of expression : the legal regulation of pornography / Katharine Gelber and Adrienne Stone;
Constitutional approaches to gender and social and economic rights / Beth Goldblatt;
Patriarchy and constitutional origins / John Kang.