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

Publication Info. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Law, development and globalization
Law, development and globalization.
Note "A GlassHouse Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- Gender of law : politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts / Bjørn 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.
Summary 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 ex.
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Subject Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Latin America.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Latin America.
Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Latin America.
Indigenous women.
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Latin America.
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
Legal polycentricity -- Latin America.
Legal polycentricity.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa.
Africa.
Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa.
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Africa.
Legal polycentricity -- Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Sieder, Rachel.
McNeish, John-Andrew.
Other Form: Print version: Gender justice and legal pluralities. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013 9780415526067 (DLC) 2012016041 (OCoLC)793099519
ISBN 9781136191572 (electronic book)
1136191577 (electronic book)
1299696244 (e-book)
9781299696242 (e-book)
9780203084434 (e-book)
0203084438
9780203084434
9780415526067
041552606X