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Demanding justice and security indigenous women and legal pluralities in Latin America

Title: Demanding justice and security [electronic resource] : indigenous women and legal pluralities in Latin America / edited by Rachel Sieder.
Publication: New Brunswick, [NJ] : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

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Sieder, Rachel.

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1 online resource (viii, 299 pages)

Summary

"Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged 'bad customs' and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists. From Kichwa women in Ecuador lobbying for the inclusion of specific clauses in the national constitution that guarantee their rights to equality and protection within indigenous community law, to Me'phaa women from Guerrero, Mexico, battling to secure justice within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations committed in the context of militarizing their home state, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of indigenous women in Latin America"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America: Demanding Justice and Security -- Rachel Sieder -- Part I Gender and Justice--Between State Law and International Norms -- Chapter 1 Between Community Justice and International Litigation: The Case of Ines Fernandez before the Inter-American Court -- Rosalva Aída Hernandez Castillo -- Chapter 2 Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: The Political Dilemma of the Cuetzalan Indigenous Women's Home (CAMI) -- Adriana Terven Salinas -- Chapter 3 Between Participation and Violence: Gender Justice and Neoliberal Government in Chichicastenango, Guatemala -- Rachel Sieder -- Part II Indigenous Autonomies and Struggles for Gender Justice -- Chapter 4 Indigenous Autonomies and Gender Justice: Women's Dispute for Security and Rights in Guerrero, Mexico -- María Teresa Sierra -- Chapter 5 Gender Inequality, Indigenous Justice, and the Intercultural State: The Case of Chimborazo, Ecuador -- Emma Cervone y Cristina Cucuri -- Chapter 6 Let Us Walk Together": Chachawarmi [Male-Female] Complementarity and Indigenous Autonomies in Bolivia -- Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt -- Chapter 7 Participate, Make Visible, Propose: The Wager of Indigenous Women in the Organizational Process of the Regional Indigenous Council of the Cauca (CRIC) -- Leonor Lozano -- Part III Women's Alternatives in the Face of Racism and Dispossession -- Chapter 8 Voices within Silences: Indigenous Women, Security, and Rights in the Mountain Region of Guerrero -- Mariana Mora -- Chapter 9 Grievances and Crevices of Resistance: Maya Women Defy Goldcorp -- Morna Macleod -- Chapter 10 Intersectional Violence: Triqui Women Confront Racism, the State, and Male Leadership -- Natalia De Marinis -- Part IV Methodological Perspectives -- Chapter 11 Methodological Routes: Toward a Critical and Collaborative Legal Anthropology -- Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo and Adriana Terven.

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