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WOMEN AS CONSTITUTION-MAKERS That a constitution should express the will of ‘the people’ is a long- standing principle, but the identity of ‘the people’ has historically been narrow. Women, in particular, were not included. A shift, however, has recentlyoccurred.Women’sparticipationinconstitution-makingisnow recognisedasademocraticright.Women’sdemandstohavetheirvoices heard, in both the process of constitution-making and the text of their country’s constitution, are gaining recognition. Campaigning for inclu- sionintheircountry’sconstitution-making,womenhaveadoptedinnova- tivestrategiestoexpresstheirconstitutionalaspirations. Thiscollectionoffers,forthefirsttime,comprehensivecase-studiesof women’scampaignsforconstitutionalequalityinninedifferentcountries thathave undergoneconstitutional transformations inthe ‘participatory era.’ Against a richly-contextualised historical and political background, eachchartstheactionsandstrategiesofwomenparticipants,bothformal andinformal,andrecordstheirsuccesses,failuresandcontinuinghopes forconstitutionalequality. -ˊisProfessorofConstitutionalLawattheUniversity ofSevillaaswellastheDirectoroftheGenderandGovernanceClusterof the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence. Her most recent works include Transforming GenderCitizenship:TheIrresistibleRiseofGenderQuotasinEurope,with ÉléonoreLépinard(ed.)(CambridgeUniversityPress,2018)andGender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis, with Will Kymlicka(ed.)(2018). is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. She is the author and editor of many works on constitutional history, gender and constitutionalism and constitutional citizenship, including Citizenship, Alienage and the Modern Constitutional State: AGenderedHistory(CambridgeUniversityPress,2016). WOMEN AS CONSTITUTION-MAKERS Case Studies from the New Democratic Era Edited by RUTH RUBIO-MARÍN UniversityofSeville HELEN IRVING UniversityofSydney UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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CONTENTS Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements xii Introduction: Women as Constitution-Makers: The Promises and the Challenges of Participation 1 -ˊ 1 Women’s Movements and the Recognition of Gender Equality in the Constitution-Making Process in Morocco and Tunisia (2011–2014) 31 2 Women and Constitution-Making in Post-Communist Romania 81 a˘ ş 3 Re-Living Yesterday’s Battles: Women and Constitution-Making in Post-Saddam Iraq 153 4 Women’s Participation in Peace-Building and Constitution-Making in Somalia 190 5 Feminist Legalism: Colombian Constitution-Making in the 1990s 234 6 Women and Constitution-Making in Turkey: From Ottoman Modernism to a Constitutionalism of Women’s Platform 270 v vi 7 Egypt’s Tale of Two Constitutions: Diverging Gendered Processes and Outcomes 314 8 Dialogic Democracy, Feminist Theory and Women’s Participation in Constitution-Making 351 . Index 378 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS is a fellow post-doctoral researcher at the Asia, Africa andMediterraneanDepartmentoftheUniversityofNaples“L’Orientale” andLecturerofHistoryofIslamicCountriesattheUniversityofMacer- ata. During her fieldworks, she has been associated researcher to the Centre Jacques Berque (CNRS) in Rabat (2012–2016) and visiting researcheratIRMC(InstitutderecherchesurleMaghrebcontemporain) in Tunis (2016). She is also UNDP Expert for Gender Equality and Women’sEmpowermentinPublicAdministration(GEPA).Herresearch interests are mainly focused on the history of women’s movements, gender politics and Islam, secular and Islamic feminisms, new female religious authorities and socio-political transformations in the MENA region and in particular in Morocco and Tunisia. She is currently working on cultural and artistic activism with political background in theMaghrebpost-uprisings.SheistheauthorofthebookFeminismsand Islam in Morocco: Women Secular Activists, Theologians and Preachers (in Italian, 2017) and of several academic publications: ‘Islamic Female Religious Authority between Agency and Governmentality: From the MoroccanModelto“Multicultural”Europe’,inDeRuiter,Hashas,Niels, Imam in Western Europe (2018); ‘Islamic Feminism in Morocco: The DiscourseandtheExperienceofAsmaLamrabet’,inM.Ennaji,F.Sadiqi, K.Vintges(eds.),MoroccanFeminisms.NewPerspectives(2016);‘Egalité de genre au Maroc après 2011? Les droits sexuels et reproductifs au centre des récentes luttes de reconnaissance’, in A. M. Maria Di Tolla and Francesca Ersilia, Emerging Actors in Post-Revolutionary North Africa. Gender Mobility and Social Activism, Studi Magrebini, XIV/ 2016,(2017).Sheisalsoauthorofthephoto-narrativeproject‘Unveiled. Morocco: plural feminine’ (www.svelate.org). a˘ is a PhD Researcher in the last stages of dissertation writingattheEuropeanUniversityInstitute(EUI),Italy.Herdissertation analyses the legal evolution of gender equality in post-Communist vii viii Romania and she is generally interested in issues related to gender, constitutionalismandpoliticsinCentralandEasternEurope.Previously, she earned an LLM degree from Yale Law School and was a visiting researcherattheKentCentreforLaw,GenderandSexualityintheUK,at New College Europe in Bucharest, Romania and at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She is also a founding member of the Constitutionalism and Politics working group at the EUI and collabor- ated for two years with a gender equality NGO in Romania. is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, Phil- osophy and Judaic Studies, the Open University of Israel. A historian of the Middle East, her research focuses on women and gender in the MiddleEastandonthesocial,legalandpoliticalhistoryofIraq.Between 2006and2011,sheheadedthePost-SaddamIraqResearchGroupatthe Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present (2012) and co-editor, with Amnon Cohen, of Post- Saddam Iraq: New Realities, Old Identities, Changing Patterns (2011). is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. She is the author and editor of many works on constitutional history, gender and constitutionalism and constitutional citizenship, including Citizenship, Alienage and the Modern Constitutional State: A Gendered History (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Gender and the Constitution: Equity and Agency in Comparative Constitutional Design(CambridgeUniversityPress,2008)andConstitutionsandGender (2017). She has held visiting positions at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard (with the Harvard Chair of Australian Studies), the London School of Economics and the European University Institute (with a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship). She has advised International IDEA, UNDP and UN Women on gender and constitution-making. isaseniorgovernanceexpertwithextensive experience providing policy and technical advice on constitutions, gov- ernance reform, transitional justice, the design of electoral systems and political party reforms and mainstreaming gender and social inclusion. She has worked in fragile states and post-conflict transitions in contexts ofextremepoliticalvolatility,changeand uncertaintransitions.Specific- ally,shehasservedasaGenderAdvisorandasaConstitutionalAdvisor
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