Gender justice and legal pluralities : Latin American and African perspectives /

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Imprint:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Law, development and globalization
Law, development and globalization.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014171
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Other authors / contributors:Sieder, Rachel.
McNeish, John-Andrew.
ISBN:9781136191572
1136191577
1299696244
9781299696242
9780203084434
0203084438
9780203084434
9780415526067
041552606X
9781136191527
1136191526
9781136191565
1136191569
9781138934856
1138934852
Notes:"A GlassHouse Book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Gender justice and legal pluralities. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013 9780415526067