Violence Against Women in Legally Plural Settings - Experiences and Lessons From the Andes

This book addresses a growing area of concern for scholars and development practitioners: discriminatory gender norms in legally plural settings. Focusing specifically on indigenous women, this book analyzes how they, often in alliance with supporters and allies, have sought to improve their access to justice. This account of ongoing political debates and local struggles for gender justice grounds the elaboration of a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding the legally plural dynamics involved in the contestation of discriminatory gender norms.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Indigenous women's hindered access to legally plural settings 2. Theoretical framework for processes of legal and institutional change 3. "Many women hadn't even thought about what it means to be a woman": La Calera and La Riconda, Ecuador 4. "As if I was sleeping, and then I woke up!": Chacabamba and Tungasuca, Peru 5. "Sometimes we as women undervalue ourselves": Mojocoya and Tarabuco, Bolivia 6. Comparative analysis of case studies 7. Conclusions and Implications

About the author

Anna Barrera Vivero is Programme Manager in Research and New Developments at the EU-LAC Foundation, Hamburg, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Barrera
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138092815
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09281-5
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Law, Development and Globalization
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law