Violence Against Women in Legally Plural settings
Experiences and Lessons from the Andes
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Violence Against Women in Legally Plural settings
Experiences and Lessons from the Andes
About This Book
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 analyses how they, often in alliance with supporters and allies, have sought to improve their access to justice. Development practitioners working in the field of access to justice have tended to conceive indigenous legal systems as either inherently incompatible with women's rights or, alternatively, they have emphasised customary law's advantageous features, such as its greater accessibility, familiarity and effectiveness. Against this background â and based on a comparison of six thus far underexplored initiatives of legal and institutional change in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia â Anna Barrera Vivero provides a more nuanced, ethnographic, understanding of how women navigate through context-specific constellations of interlegality in their search for justice. In so doing, moreover, her 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of maps
- List of tables
- 1 Introduction: Indigenous womenâs hindered access to justice in legally plural settings
- 2 Theoretical approaches to legal and institutional change
- 3 âMany women hadnât even thought about what it means to be a womanâ: La Calera and La Rinconada, Ecuado
- 4 âAs if I was sleeping, and then I woke up!â: Chacabamba and Tungasuca, Peru
- 5 âSometimes we as women undervalue ourselvesâ: Mojocoya and Tarabuco, Bolivia
- 6 Comparative analysis of case studies
- 7 Conclusions and implications
- Bibliography
- Index