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Gender equality in law, uncovering the legacies of Czech State socialism, Barbara Havelková

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Gender equality in law

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Barbara Havelková

Human rights law in perspective

uncovering the legacies of Czech State socialism

"In Gender Equality in Law: Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism, Barbara Havelková offers a sober and sophisticated socio-legal account of gender equality law in Czechia. Tracing gender equality norms from their origins under state socialism, Havelková shows how the dominant understanding of the differences between women and men as natural and innate combined with a post-socialist understanding of rights as freedom to shape the views of key Czech legal actors and to thwart the transformative potential of EU sex discrimination law. Havelková's compelling feminist legal genealogy of gender equality in Czechia illuminates the path dependency of gender norms and the antipathy to substantive gender equality that is common among the formerly state-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Her deft analysis of the relationship between gender and legal norms is especially relevant today as the legitimacy of gender equality laws is increasingly precarious."--, Provided by publisher

The three stages of regulation of woman and gender -- State-socialist law and rights -- Equality as socio-economic levelling -- Blindness to gender and patriarchy -- Women and gender after 1989