Williams, Susan H. --- "Religion, custom, and legal pluralism" [2017] ELECD 849; in Irving, Helen (ed), "Constitutions and Gender" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 413

Book Title: Constitutions and Gender

Editor(s): Irving, Helen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784716950

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: Religion, custom, and legal pluralism

Author(s): Williams, Susan H.

Number of pages: 25

Abstract/Description:

After the introduction in section 15.1, section 15.2 describes three, largely separate literatures that address gender equality issues in different types of plural legal systems. Section 15.3 suggests that these literatures can usefully be situated in a single landscape when they are organized according to two central factors that shape each type of system. Section 15.4 offers an argument for the idea that promotion of cultural change rather than external coercion is the most productive framework for addressing this issue. And finally, section 15.5 uses the framework developed earlier to offer some specific suggestions about constitutional mechanisms for promoting cultural change within different sorts of plural systems.