Blocking the Law from Within
Familyism Ideologies as Obstacles to Legal Protections for Women in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 18944406 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Cecilia Menjívar (0000-0002-7061-509X, autor de correspondencia), Leydy Diossa-Jiménez (0000-0003-4381-5966) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 58 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 501-518 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-09-01 |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lar.2022.72 |
| PMID | 37577329 |
| OpenAlex | W4311639879 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 6 |
| Referencias citadas | 20 |
The scholarship seeking to explain the ineffectiveness of violence against women (VAW) laws has focused on the lack of resources or will to implement these laws. Less attention has been given to how these laws are crafted and positioned in the legal hierarchy, which may undermine them from the start. This article focuses on four cases from Central America, a region where fifty-five laws to protect women from violence were passed between 1960 and 2018, yet VAW continues. It finds that the legal positioning and language of these laws prioritize family unity while undermining women’s rights to protection; thus, these laws fail by design. The article identifies four legal placements that delay (El Salvador), undermine (Honduras), diminish (Nicaragua), or render abstract (Guatemala) the effectiveness of VAW laws in the context of penal and judicial codes. This work has direct policy implications and broader relevance beyond the cases examined here
Art · Context (archaeology) · Gender violence · Geography · Humanities · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Sex work and related issues
Law and Political Violence against Women in Central America
Aguantar , Gendered Expectation, and the Limits of Safety in Rural Michoacán
From aspirational laws to the implementation of legislation against gender-based violence
Judicial protection and gender equality in Ibero-America
Categorías estatales, burocracias del desplazamiento y posibilidades desde los márgenes
State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins
Femicide
UNHCR – United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
Enduring Violence
The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reform in Guatemala
The Architecture of Feminicide
Mind the Gap
The Impact of Adjacent Laws on Implementing Violence Against Women Laws
Legal Protection Against Domestic Violence in India
Women and Postconflict Security
New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens
The Making and Unmaking of Feminicidio/Femicidio Laws in Mexico and Nicaragua
Women's Rights and Opposition
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Family Ideology
Impunity and multisided violence in the lives of Latin American women
| Citas por año | 2 |
|---|---|
| Intervalo de citas | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Altamente citado | No |