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.
Subject:	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. Legal polycentricity. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation. Africa. Latin America. Electronic books.
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. Print version record.
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

Table of 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
The 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.

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