Gender justice and legal pluralities : Latin American and African perspectives - Sieder, Rachel; McNeish, John-Andrew. (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013)
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.
"A GlassHouse Book."
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Keywords: 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; Electronic books