Special issue

Law, Gender and Equality

Revista Direito GV, v. 21 (2025). Edited by Pedro Salomon Bezerra Mouallem and Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin. Published December 31, 2025.

The special issue “Law, Gender and Equality” fosters the discussion on the themes explored in Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives, edited by Rebecca Cook (2023), and promotes outstanding research led by 15 female authors from countries such as Brazil, Canada, Colombia, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States of America at different stages in their careers.

We hope to contribute to reducing the gender gap in academic production and publication by presenting research on theoretical perspectives on gender equality and antidiscrimination law, empirical research on how gender and sexual discrimination are reproduced, and feminist rewriting.

All articles are prefaced by abstracts in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Preface and introduction

1. Preface

   Rebecca J. Cook

   Introduction

   Pedro Salomon Bezerra Mouallem and Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin, Getulio Vargas Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil

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Articles

1. Abortion as a Fundamental Right in Mexico: Exploring the Multiple Layers of Reproductive Freedom

   Alma Beltrán y Puga

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2. Representações sociais de jurados sobre feminicídio e transfeminicídio

   Social Representations of Jurors on Femicide and Transfemicide

   Gabriela Perissinotto de Almeida and Rosemeire Aparecida Scopinho

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3. An Exploration of Petition 16 through the Prism of Equality (Uganda)

   Serena Meghji

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4. Reconstructing Labour Law for Gender Equity: Tackling Economic Dependence and the Neoliberal Framework (European Union)

   Meltem Ince-Yenilmez and Gökmen Kantar

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5. Reimaginando reparações: uma releitura do caso González e Outras vs. México à luz dos direitos humanos e empresas

   Reimagining Reparations: A Reinterpretation of the González et al. v. Mexico Case in Light of Business and Human Rights

   Júlia Lambert Gomes Ferraz

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6. Maria da Penha Law and Judicial Resistance: Heteroframing Gender-Based Violence in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

   Samantha Nagle Cunha de Moura

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   Lei Maria da Penha e resistência judicial: enquadramento hetero da violência de gênero em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

   Samantha Nagle Cunha de Moura

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7. “Social Reproductive Justice”: Substantive Equality in the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court’s Ruling on Abortion Decriminalization (ADPF 442)

   Luna Borges

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8. Lesbianidades em contextos de violência nas decisões do Superior Tribunal de Justiça

   Lesbianities in Contexts of Violence in the Decisions of the Superior Court of Justice

   Maria Beatriz Dias da Silva and Jalusa Silva de Arruda

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9. El derecho humano al cuidado y las mujeres en movimiento: retos y oportunidades en el marco de una agenda regional

   The Human Right to Care and Women on the Move: Challenges and Opportunities within a Regional Agenda

   Carolina Moreno and Camila Vega-Salazar

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10. Between Equality and Religion: A Critical Analysis of the Indian Supreme Court’s Approach in the Sabarimala Case (India)

    Manisha Aswal

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