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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779893803321

Titolo

Gender justice and legal pluralities : Latin American and African perspectives / / edited by Rachel Sieder and John-Andrew McNeish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19156-9

1-138-93485-2

0-203-08443-8

1-136-19157-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Law, Development and Globalization

Altri autori (Persone)

McNeishJohn-Andrew

SiederRachel

Disciplina

346.601/34

Soggetti

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Latin America

Indigenous women - Legal status, laws, etc - Latin America

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Latin America

Legal polycentricity - Latin America

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Africa

Indigenous women - Legal status, laws, etc - Africa

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Africa

Legal polycentricity - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse Book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Rachel Sieder and John-Andrew McNeish -- Gender, human rights and legal pluralities : experiences from Southern and Eastern Africa / Anne Hellum -- Indigenous women fight for justice : gender rights and legal pluralism in Mexico / Maria Teresa Sierra -- The gender of law : politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen -- Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities : indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder -- Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan : Islamist women negotiating gender equity / Liv Tønnessen -- Indigenous rights and violent state construction : the struggle of Triqui women in Oaxaca / Natalia de Marinis -- Opening the pandora's box :



human rights, customary law, and the "communal liberal self" in Tanzania / Natalie J. Bourdon -- An accumulated rage : legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia / John-Andrew McNeish and Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt.

Sommario/riassunto

<P>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. </P>