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Gender Equality in Law - Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism (Hardcover)
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Gender Equality in Law - Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism (Hardcover)
Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective
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"Since the fall of the Berlin wall there has been a surprising
dearth of high quality of scholarship on legal culture in the
communist successor states of East Central Europe. In this
excellent book Barbara Havelkova engages with the reversal of many
of the advances the socialist period made in gender relations,
examining the historical roots of the current failure of Czech law
to engage with the discriminatory practices that have negatively
affected the lives of women. She does this by a forensic excavation
of law, discourses and practices of the socialist era revealing the
patriarchal assumptions underpinning them that became deeply
embedded in Czech legal culture, and that have been carried forward
to the present day. The book is a compelling read. It provides
answers to many of the questions that have perplexed feminists
about the post-soviet transition and at the same time speaks more
generally to the debates surrounding the troubling rightward shift
in the politics of the communist successor states of Europe."
Professor Judith Pallot, President of the British Association for
Slavonic and East European Studies "In Gender Equality in Law:
Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism, Barbara Havelkova
offers a sober and sophisticated socio-legal account of gender
equality law in Czechia. Tracing gender equality norms from their
origins under state socialism, Havelkova 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.
Havelkova'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." Professor Judy Fudge,
Kent Law School 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.
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