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Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform - Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador (Hardcover)
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Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform - Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador (Hardcover)
Series: Social Justice
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Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance
feminism and carceral expansion based mainly on experiences from
the Global North, this book critically addresses feminist law
reform on violence against women, from a decolonial perspective.
Challenging the consensus that penal expansion is mainly associated
with the co-option of feminist campaigns to counteract violence
against women in the context of neoliberal globalisation, this book
shows that long-standing colonial narratives underlie many of
today's dominant legal discourses justifying criminalisation, even
in countries whose governments have called themselves "leftist" and
"post-neoliberal". Mapping the history of law reform on violence
against women in Ecuador, the book reveals how the conciliation
between feminist campaigns and criminalisation strategies takes
place through liberal legality, the language of human rights, and
the discourse of constitutional guarantees, across the political
spectrum. Whilst human rights make violence against women
intelligible in mainstream legal terms, the book shows that the
emergence of a "rights-based penality" produces a benign, formally
innocuous criminal law, which can be presented as progressive, but
in practice reproduces colonial and postcolonial paradigms that
limit and reshape feminist demands. The book raises new questions
on the complex social and political factors that impact on feminist
law reform projects, as it demonstrates how colonial assumptions
about gender, race, class, and the family remain embedded in
liberal criminal law. This theoretically and empirically informed
analysis makes an innovative contribution to feminist legal theory,
post-colonial studies, and criminal law; and will be of interest to
activists, scholars and policymakers working at the intersections
between gender equality, law, and violence in Latin America and
beyond.
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