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11.05.2015 | 15:00—17:30 | Conference room 014 INF

Max Planck Lecture Series Prof. Ruth Rubio Marin "The Breadwinner Familiy Model under Constitutional Challenge"

For women, as constitutional subjects, the emancipatory promise of constitutionalism was - from its inception - fundamentally limited by the entrenchment of the separate spheres tradition built around the breadwinner family model. Focusing on evolving constitutional jurisprudence in the US, Germany, and Italy, the talk will describe a gradual and still imperfect process of (dis)establishment of the originally enshrined gender order, as it has unfolded since the 1970s. In this process, it will be shown, the constitutional doctrine of sex equality has denied the possibility of according men and women a different legal status of rights and duties, keeping women away from the marketplace. At the same time this equality doctrine has been an inadequate tool to fully subvert the pre-established gender order in both its transatlantic iterations. In the US an anti-stereotyping conception of gender equality has prevailed, providing little support for working women, and in Europe, substantive equality notions have translated into an accommodationist workerism, wherein special measures for working mothers are fostered at the risk of entrenching rather than subverting existing gender roles. In contrast to this, recent evolutions in constitutionalism point to a promising third way, which, challenging traditionally accepted notions of family privacy and foregrounding fatherhood as opposed to just motherhood, would allow us to retain the central importance attached to care and reproduction in the European tradition, but at the same time assist in the process of overcoming traditional gender assumptions and stereotypes built around them.

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