Equality with a Vengeance – Women Conscientious Objectors in Pursuit of a "Voice" and Substantive Gender Equality

Authors

Noya Rimalt, Haifa University Law School

Document Type

Paper

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

This article examines the story of female draft resistors in Israel. The story serves as a case study that can provide important insights into the inherent constraints of contemporary legal discourse in promoting substantive gender equality and into the relationship between specific legal arrangements and the invisibility of women in the public sphere. This case study also sheds a more complex light on the nature of separate legal arrangements for women, and raises important questions about the appropriate feminist agenda for social and legal change.

Comments

2006 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop selection.

Recommended Citation

Noya Rimalt, Equality with a Vengeance – Women Conscientious Objectors in Pursuit of a "Voice" and Substantive Gender Equality, (2006).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/law_culture/47