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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 |
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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." |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 deeply charged political battles. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, social groups turned to the judicial arm of the state in an effort to force the state to change its laws and policies on religious personal status law, or family law. Through an extensive case study of the interactions of the women's movement with the High Court of Justice, Woods argues that the most important determining factor explaining when, why, and how national courts enter into the world of divisive politics is found in the intellectual or judicial communities with whom justices live, work, and think about the law. The interaction among members of this community over time culminates in new legal norms. This second edition takes into account what has happened in the past decade, with public debate over religion and the state moving away from the court and into the realm of popular politics--on the Knesset floor, in the media, in shopping malls, and on the streets. Included for the first time is the dataset for the author's national survey of women's movement volunteers"--Back cover |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Israel. Bet ha-mishpaṭ ha-gavoha le-tsedeḳ.
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Israel. Bet ha-mishpaṭ ha-gavoha le-tsedeḳ fast |
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Israel. Bet ha-mishpaṭ ha-ʻelyon. nli |
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Political questions and judicial power -- Israel
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Judicial review -- Israel
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LAW -- Civil Procedure.
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LAW -- Legal Services.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
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Judicial review
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Political questions and judicial power
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Political questions and judicial power -- Israel.
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Religion and law -- Israel.
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Religion and state -- Israel.
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Social movements -- Israel.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel.
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Orthodox Judaism -- Israel -- Relations -- Nontraditional Jews.
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Judicial review -- Israel.
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Israel
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Electronic book
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9781438462080 |
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1438462085 |
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