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Legal scholars, economists, and international development practitioners often assume that the state is capable of 'securing' rights to land and addressing gender inequality in land tenure. In this innovative study of land tenure in Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson challenges these assumptions. Monson demonstrates that territorial disputes have given rise to a legal system characterised by state law, custom, and Christianity, and that the legal construction and regulation of property has, in fact, deepened gender inequalities and other forms of social difference. These processes have concentrated formal land control in the hands of a small number of men leaders, and reproduced the state as a hypermasculine domain, with significant implications for public authority, political participation, and state formation. Drawing insights from legal scholarship and political ecology in particular, this book offers a significant study of gender and legal pluralism in the Pacific, illuminating ongoing global debates about gender inequality, land tenure, ethnoterritorial struggles and the post colonial state.

Land tenure --- Women's rights --- Women and land use planning --- Land use --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Planning --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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"The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions"--

Equality --- Women's rights --- Communism --- History --- Europe, Central --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Politics and government --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Central Europe

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Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice explores the intent and effects of prenatal screening in connection to women's bodily autonomy and disability rights, addressing themes at the intersection of genetic medicine, policymaking, critical disabilities studies, and political theory.

Prenatal diagnosis --- Abortion --- Women's rights. --- Fetus --- Disabilities --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Abnormalities --- Genetic aspects. --- Disability --- Disabling conditions --- Handicaps --- Impairment --- Physical disabilities --- Physical handicaps --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Animals with disabilities --- People with disabilities --- Rights of women --- Women --- Women's rights --- Human rights --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Moral and religious aspects

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In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples.Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social, and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion, and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination.With the benefit of hindsight, the book’s contributors reconstruct gender equalities in concrete situations. Given the increasingly porous exchanges between domestic and international law, various national, regional, and international decisions and texts are examined to determine how better to breathe life into equality from the perspectives, for instance, of Indigenous and Muslim women, those who were violated sexually and physically, and those needing access to necessary health care, including abortion. The conclusion suggests areas of future research, including how to translate the concept of intersectionality into normative and institutional settings, which will assist in promoting the goals of gender equality.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights. --- African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. --- American Convention on Human Rights. --- Arab Charter on Human Rights. --- CEDAW Committee. --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination. --- European Court of Human Rights. --- European Social Charter. --- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. --- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. --- Sustainable Development Goals. --- abortion rights. --- gender inequality equalitysubstantive equality. --- gender intersectional discrimination. --- human rights of women. --- law legal studies. --- religious freedom. --- transformative equality. --- women’s queer indigenous rights.

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This book lays bare the reality of being an Adivasi in India today and beyond that a woman in a globalising world, building commonalities with the author's own personal experiences and life trajectory. The lived experiences of Santal women and men are unfolded here along with the political and economic changes after Jharkhand State was created. Using ethnographic methods, it weaves a multi-dimensional and multi-relational mosaic of the lives and livelihoods, the struggles for resources, gender identities and new narratives of citizenship. Ordinary peoples' everyday struggles for survival with dignity and respect form the core of the analyses. Rich in field insights, the gender lens adopted gives a fresh perspective to understanding issues of land and labour, indigenous identity, political aspirations and state relations. It contributes significantly to the slim literature on Adivasi development in Jharkhand and fills a gap in knowledge on gender relations.

Group identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Women's rights --- Land tenure --- Sex role --- Jharkhand (India) --- Politics and government --- Gender role --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- State of Jharkhand (India) --- Jhārakhaṇḍa (India) --- Jarkhand (India)