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Violence against women in legally plural settings : experiences and lessons from the Andes / Anna Barrera Vivero.
Author
Barrera Vivero, Anna, 1980-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Description
xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
KG966.F36 B37 2016
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Subject(s)
Family violence
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Law and legislation
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Andes Region
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Family violence
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Andes Region
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Abused women
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Legal status, laws, etc
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Andes Region
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Indian women
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Legal status, laws, etc
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Andes Region
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Legal polycentricity
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Andes Region
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Indigenous Studies
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Series
Law, development and globalization
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Summary note
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. 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 emphasized customary law's advantageous features, such as its greater accessibility, familiarity and effectiveness. Against this background - and based on a comparison of six thus far underexplored initiatives of legal and institutional change in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia - Anna Barrera Vivero provides a more nuanced, ethnographic, understanding of how women navigate through context-specific constellations of inter-legality in their search for justice.0In 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.
Notes
"A Glasshouse Book".
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - German Institute of Global and Area Studies and the University of Hamburg, 2014) under title: Promoting Change in Legally Plural Settings : Domestic Violence and Indigenous Women's Quest for Justice in the Andes.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-282) and index.
Contents
Introduction : indigenous women's hindered access to legally plural settings
Theoretical framework for processes of legal and institutional change
"Many women hadn't even thought about what it means to be a woman" : La Calera and La Riconda, Ecuador
"As if I was sleeping, and then I woke up!" : Chacabamba and Tungasuca, Peru
"Sometimes we as women undervalue ourselves" : Mojocoya and Tarabuco, Bolivia
Comparative analysis of case studies
Conclusions and implications.
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ISBN
9781138936690 ((hbk.))
1138936693 ((hbk.))
LCCN
2015025098
OCLC
913957623
Other standard number
99966561089
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