Gender justice and legal pluralities
Subtitle: Latin American and African perspectives
By: edited by Rachel Sieder and John McNeish
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Indigenous women; Law and legislation; Legal polycentricity; Legal status, laws; Women
Notes: "A GlassHouse Book."
Table of contents: title: Introduction: gender justice and legal pluralities: Latin American and African perspectives / Rachel Sieder and John-Andrew McNeish; title: Gender, human rights and legal pluralities: experiences from Southern and Eastern Africa / Anne Hellum; title: Indigenous women fight for justice: gender rights and legal pluralism in Mexico / Maria Teresa Sierra; title: The gender of law: politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen; title: Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder; title: Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity / Liv Tønnessen; title: Indigenous rights and violent state construction: the struggle of Triqui women in Oaxaca / Natalia de Marinis; title: Opening the pandora's box: human rights, customary law, and the "communal liberal self" in Tanzania / Natalie J. Bourdon; title: An accumulated rage: legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia / John-Andrew McNeish and Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt.