Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities
by Rachel Sieder (Editor), John-Andrew McNeish (Editor)
ISBN-10: 1138934852
ISBN-13: 9781138934856
$56.95
Book Specs
Trade Paper
Routledge
Published on
Jul 16, 2015
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
6.14x0.56x9.21 Inches
Weight
0.90 Pounds
About the Book
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.