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
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.
"By relying on comparative case studies of Russia and Turkey, and
making good use of insightful (and on occasion alarming or
heart-wrenching) interviews with lawyers, activists, academics and
other human rights and feminist practitioners in Russia and Turkey,
the authors succeed in presenting a compelling account of how the
stark realities on the ground may hinder the effectiveness of the
guarantees offered by the echr protection framework ... The key
strength
of this study is that it offers an accessible, clear and detailed
account of activist and victims' perspectives on accessing remedies
for discrimination, both in the domestic and the international
legal sphere. By focusing primarily on semi-structured interviews,
the authors succeed in communicating the immediacy and scale of the
problem ... [I]t marks an indispensable and important addition to
the literature on Article 14 echr" -- Dimitrios Kagiaros, European
Convention on Human Rights Law Review
"Courting Gender Justice is a beacon for one of the most salient
legal issues of our time. Moving seamlessly between domestic and
international legal and political analysis, it provides a playbook
for the pitfalls and successes of utilizing courts for legal
change. Case studies of litigation strategies in Turkey, Russia,
and the ECtHR are a treasure trove of comparative analysis across
legal domains and jurisdictions. This book is essential reading
for
scholars, practitioners, and activists mobilizing to eliminate
gender discrimination in Europe today." -- Rachel A. Cichowski,
University of Washington
"The European Court of Human Rights is often portrayed as an
institution in crisis, a victim of its own success collapsing under
its caseload. Refreshingly, this book tells the story of an
overlooked crisis: women are struggling to find a path to the Court
in order to have complaints of gender discrimination heard. The
authors chart in meticulous, eye-opening detail the many obstacles
that women in Russia and Turkey have to overcome in the pursuit of
gender
justice. It's an important read for anyone interested in women's
rights and international human rights law." -- Loveday Hodson,
University of Leicester
"Courting Gender Justice is a truly remarkable book. It is both a
hopeful book that points to successful legal strategies, and a
devastating account of widespread discrimination. It is one of
those rare books that not only challenges your thinking, but also
changes how you think about courts and legal mobilization." --
Mikael Rask Madsen, University of Copenhagen
"An authoritative, rich, and vivid account of the challenges to
fighting gender discrimination in Russian courts and in the
European Court of Human Rights. The authors lay out the long and
difficult trajectory that awaits gender discrimination cases as
they wend their way through Russian courts and occasionally to the
ECtHR- whose judges have also been reluctant to confront the
issue-and make deft use of comparisons, both with Russian
litigation on LGBT cases,
and LGBT and gender discrimination cases from Turkey. The result is
impressive indeed." -- Peter H. Solomon, University of Toronto
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