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Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities

Latin American and African Perspectives

Rachel Sieder editor John McNeish editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:8th Nov '12

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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 examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.

'The detail elaborated in each chapter is enriched by the editors’ excellent 30-page overview, which sets out broader conceptual, historical, and political issues, highlighting salient points from the main contributions.' - Deborah Eade, Independent Writer and Editor, Geneva for Gender & Development

ISBN: 9780415526067

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 620g

248 pages