Multiple Injustices Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America

Synthesizes R. Aida Hernandez Castillo's twenty-four years of activism and research among indigenous women's organisations in Latin America. As both feminist and critical anthropologist, Hernandez Castillo analyses the context of legal pluralism wherein the indigenous women of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia struggle for justice.

About the author

R. Aída Hernández Castillo is a professor and senior researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Born in Ensenada, Baja California, she began her professional life at age eighteen as a journalist in a Central American press agency. She is the author of twenty-two books and the recipient of the Martin Diskin Oxfam Award for activist research.

Summary

Synthesizes R. Aida Hernandez Castillo's twenty-four years of activism and research among indigenous women's organisations in Latin America. As both feminist and critical anthropologist, Hernandez Castillo analyses the context of legal pluralism wherein the indigenous women of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia struggle for justice.

Product details

• Authors: R. A. Hernandez Castillo, R. Aida Hernandez Castillo, R. A. Hernández Castillo, R. Aída Hernández Castillo, R Aída Hernández Castillo
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.03.2018
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology
• EAN: 9780816538683
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3868-3
• Pages: 344
• Dimensions (packing): 15 x 22.6 x 2 cm
• Weight (packing): 454 g
• Series: Critical Issues in Indigenous; Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies; Critical Issues in Indigenous; Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
• Subjects: Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies