| Description |
xi, 236 p. : ill. |
| Note |
"A GlassHouse Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Tnnessen -- 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Latin America.
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Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Latin America.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Latin America.
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Legal polycentricity -- Latin America.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa.
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Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Africa.
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Legal polycentricity -- Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sieder, Rachel.
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McNeish, John-Andrew.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415526067 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780203084434 (electronic bk.) |
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