Gender-Based Violence in Latin-American Neo Crime Fiction Literature

2022 ◽  
pp. 410-420
Author(s):  
Fabián G. Mossello
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

scholarly journals Victims of femicide in Latin America: Legal and criminal justice responses

Temida ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Made In

Despite the progress that women have made in the fight against gender-based violence, it is still prevalent in various countries in the world. For many women in Latin American countries femicide is a constant reality. This paper critically analyzes femicide in Latin American countries and the legal and criminal responses to this crime. The paper defines femicide and discusses the nature and extent of femicide in Latin America. The analysis of this phenomenon in Latin American countries indicates that although some of these countries have made important strides in addressing the problem, they still face challenges in adequately preventing this crime.

scholarly journals Gender-Based Administrative Violence as Colonial Strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-227
Author(s):  
Elena Ruíz ◽  
Nora Berenstain ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Native Women ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The U.S

There is a growing trend across North America of women being criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes. Rather than being a series of aberrations resulting from institutional failures, we argue that this trend is part of a colonial strategy of administrative violence aimed at women of color and Native women across Turtle Island. We consider a range of medical and legal practices constituting gender-based administrative violence, and we argue that they are the result of non-accidental and systematic production of population-level harms that cannot be disentangled from the goals of ongoing settler occupation and dispossession of Indigenous lands. While white feminist narratives of gender-based administrative violence in Latin America function to distance the places where such violence occurs from the ‘liberal democratic’ settler nation-states of the U.S. and Canada, we hold that administrative forms of reproductive violence against Latin American women are structurally connected to efforts in the U.S. and Canada to criminalize women of color and Indigenous women for their reproductive outcomes. The purpose of these systemically produced harms is to sustain cultures of gender-based violence in support of settler colonial configurations of power.

scholarly journals Transnational Governance, Local Politics, and Gender Violence Law in Nicaragua

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
Gender Based

Many Latin American countries have passed laws intended to address femicide and other forms of violence against women. Yet the implementation of these laws has been inconsistent at best. This article analyzes the case of Nicaragua, which passed a comprehensive law on gender-based violence (Law 779) in 2012. While celebrated by local women’s organizations, Law 779 was subsequently weakened through a series of legislative reforms and executive decrees. This article seeks to explain why state actors in Nicaragua initially supported Law 779 and later sought to undermine it. I argue that in contexts characterized by a high concentration of political power like Nicaragua, transnational governance structures are insufficient to ensure the success of gender violence legislation. Through an analysis of Law 779, this article contributes to broader debates about the nature of state legitimacy and the potential of legal advocacy to address violence against women.

scholarly journals Ni Una Menos, czyli feminizm po argentyńsku

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Magdalena Lisińska
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Impact

The article addresses the problem of violence against women in Argentina in the context of the rise of the feminist movement Ni Una Menos. The text is based on the hypothesis that the creation of Ni Una Menos has been a watershed in the social perception of violence against women in Argentina. The article outlines the characteristics of gender-based violence in Argentina –primarily its historical, cultural, and social conditions. It discusses actions taken by Ni Una Menoscollective as a mean of fighting for women’s empowerment. The text also covers the impact of Ni Una Menos campaigns, including the extent to which the collective influenced Latin American and global women’s rights movements.

scholarly journals Transnational Governance, Local Politics, and Gender Violence Law in Nicaragua

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela J. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
Gender Based

AbstractMany Latin American countries have passed laws intended to address femicide and other forms of violence against women. Yet the implementation of these laws has been inconsistent at best. This article analyzes the case of Nicaragua, which passed a comprehensive law on gender-based violence (Law 779) in 2012. While celebrated by local women’s organizations, Law 779 was subsequently weakened through a series of legislative reforms and executive decrees. This article seeks to explain why state actors in Nicaragua initially supported Law 779 and later sought to undermine it. It argues that in contexts characterized by a high concentration of political power like Nicaragua, transnational governance structures are insufficient to ensure the success of gender violence legislation. Through an analysis of Law 779, this article contributes to broader debates about the nature of state legitimacy and the potential of legal advocacy to address violence against women.

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