Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities
Latin American and African Perspectives
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Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities
Latin American and African Perspectives
About this book
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are 'good' or 'bad' for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women's rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Gender, human rights and legal pluralities: experiences from Southern and Eastern Africa
- 2 Indigenous women fight for justice: gender rights and legal pluralism in Mexico
- 3 The gender of law: politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts
- 4 Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women’s search for justice in Guatemala
- 5 Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
- 6 Indigenous rights and violent state construction: the struggle of Triqui women in Oaxaca
- 7 Opening Pandora’s Box: human rights, customary law and the “communal liberal self” in Tanzania
- 8 An Accumulated Rage: legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia
- Index