Multiple (In)Justices: Indigenous Woman, Law and Political Struggle in Latin America

This book recovers twenty-four years of activism and research with indigenous women’s organizations in Latin America. The author, a feminist and critical anthropologist, analyzes the context of legal pluralism in which indigenous women from Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia fight for justice. Through ethnographic research in spaces of legal pluralism, the author reflects on the possibilities and limitations of indigenous, national and international law for indigenous women, within the contexts of colonialism, racism and patriarchal violence. It concludes that the theories of indigenous women about culture, tradition and gender equity, as expressed in political documents, event reports, public speeches, and their intellectual writings are key factors in the decolonization of Latin American feminisms and social justice for all.

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