Housing and Patrimonial (Property) Violence against Women

The Reproduction of Gender Asset Inequalities in Brazil

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ID3392823
AuthorsRaquel Ludermir (0000-0001-6457-8088, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume56
Issue1
Pages63-90
Publication date2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x23000962
OpenAlexW4390055728
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

Accessing and retaining adequate housing can be a major challenge for low-income city residents, particularly women trying to escape domestic abuse. Focusing on housing struggles amidst urban poverty, this article explores a specific kind of gender-based violence - violation of women's property rights - recognised by Latin American legal systems as 'patrimonial violence against women'. Drawing on qualitative research in Brazil, this article shows how women are likely to experience gendered evictions and dispossession, and why patrimonial violence against women remains largely misunderstood and underreported, despite legal progress. The discussion expands current understandings of the interplay between gender, violence (explicit or otherwise) and the reproduction of asset inequalities

Asset (computer security) · Criminology · Domestic violence · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Poison control · Political science · Poverty · Property (philosophy) · Property rights · Reproduction · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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