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The Prism of Human Rights - Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador (Paperback)
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The Prism of Human Rights - Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador (Paperback)
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Gender violence has been at the forefront of women’s human rights
struggles for decades, shaping political movements and NGO and
government programs related to women’s empowerment, community
development, and public health. Drawing on over twenty years of
research and activism in rural Ecuador, Karin
Friederic provides a remarkably intimate view of what these
rights-based programs actually achieve over the long term. The
Prism of Human Rights brings us into the lives of women, men,
and children who find themselves entangled in intimate partner
violence, structural violence, political economic change, and a
global cultural project in which “rights” are associated with
modernity, development, and democratic states. She details the
multiple forms of violence that rural women experience; shows the
diverse ways they make sense of, endure, and combat this violence;
and helps us understand how people are grappling with new ideas of
gender, rights, and even of violence itself. Ultimately, Friederic
demonstrates that rights-based interventions provide important
openings for women seeking a life free of violence, but they also
unwittingly expose “liberated” women to more extreme dynamics
of structural violence. Thus, these interventions often reduce
women’s room to maneuver and encourage communities to hide
violence in order to appear “modern” and “developed.” This
analysis of human rights in practice is essential for anyone
seeking to promote justice in a culturally responsible manner, and
for anyone who hopes to understand how the globalization of rights,
legal institutions, and moral visions is transforming distant
locales and often perpetuating violence in the process.
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