Criminalising violence against women : feminism, penality, and rights in post neoliberal Ecuador

This thesis asks how penality, understood as the whole of the penal complex, with its laws, procedures, and sanctions, has become central to feminist strategies to counteract violence against women (VAW) in Ecuador. A new penal code came into force in 2014, criminalising some forms of domestic VAW,...

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Main Author: Tapia Tapia, Silvana Cristina
Other Authors: Bedford, Kate
Published: University of Kent 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.721642