Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform

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.

Auteur

Silvana Tapia Tapia is Assistant Professor of Law at Universidad del Azuay (Ecuador). She holds a PhD in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Kent (United Kingdom), a Master's in Criminal Law, and a Bachelor's in Law from the University of Azuay. In 2021 she was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Scholarship to conduct research on violence against women and human rights penalty, hosted by the University of Birmingham.

Contenu

Introduction Toward a decolonial feminist critique of penality

Chapter 1 Protecting women in postcolonial Latin America

Chapter 2 Law was foe: women's movements before the 1990s

Chapter 3 Violence against women, human rights, and the turn to criminal law

Chapter 4 From neoliberal to post-neoliberal: the constitutional journey of rights-based penality

Chapter 5 A new Penal Code: criminalising violence against women using rights-based penality

Chapter 6 Report from the field: women's experiences of using specialised penal courts

Conclusion