Judicial power and national politics : courts and gender in the religious-secular conflict in Israel /
"In Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition, Patricia J. Woods returns to an issue that has only grown in relevance since the first edition's publication in 2008: the religious-secular conflict in Israel. The first edition focused on the role that courts and justices play in d...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, New York :
State University of New York Press,
2017.
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Edición: | Second edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the Second Edition; Introductory Remarks from the Introduction to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Judicial Power and National Politics in Israel: Religious-Secular Conflict; Jurisdiction of Personal Status; Origins and Maintenance of Rabbinical Jurisdiction: Identification of Israel with the Jewish Religion qua Religion; Courts and Personal Status Law; The High Court in Context; The Women's Movement and Judicial Change; The Second Wave: The Formative Years, 1970-1984; New Activism, 1984-1987; The Women in Black Years (the Intifada Years), 1987-1993.
- Broad Success on Women's Legal Status, 1993-1995The Women's Movement: Context and Conclusions; Larger Issues; Strong Judiciary as Authoritarian; The Pragmatic Intermediary; Judicial Power-Natural Law; Conclusions; Chapter 2 Women's Movement Mobilization; The Israeli Women's Movement in National Context; Historical Lessons from the First Wave; Ethnic Politics within the Israeli Women's Movement: Women's Common Standpoint, or Specificity/Identity-as-Difference?; Conclusions; Chapter 3 The Irony of State Incorporation; Why Incorporate Religious Authorities? The Ironic Salience of "Low Politics."
- Symbolic ValueKulturkampf; International and National Legitimacy; Mamlakhtiut, the Drive for a Strong State; Unintended Consequences of Etatism; Why Join the "Secular" State?; Who Are "The Religious" in Israel?; Centralized Authority in Marriage and Divorce; Internal Restrictions on Gender Roles and Religious Practice: Marking In-Group as Out-Group; Conclusions; Chapter 4 Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community; Normative Change; An Informal Community United by Common Norms; Knowledge and Exchange of Ideas in the Judicial Community; Reputation; A Tight-Knit Community: Critics of the Court.
- Chapter 5 A New High Court MissionEarly Signs of Rights Consciousness on the HCJ; Changes and Signals in the 1970s and 1980s; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Social Movements and Changing Language of the Court; The Cases before 1985; Implicit and Explicit Coalitions; The Arguments; Sequence of Women's Equality Argument; Women's Equality; Shas and Conversion; Conclusions; Conclusions; Appendix A; Survey Results; Appendix B; Original Dataset; Notes; Glossary; References; Israeli High Court of Justice Cases Cited; Personal Interviews Cited; Newspaper Articles; Other Documents; Index.