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The Retelling of Tales: Disentangling the Feminist Evolutionary Analytic Approach, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2013

Gopika Solanki
Gopika Solanki*
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Carleton University
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Globally, women's movements share the twin concerns of equality within the family and freedom from domestic violence. The following questions conjoin and animate these debates: Given that violence against women is a global phenomenon, why are some states more effective at controlling domestic violence than others? What is the correlation between inequality encoded in family laws and the rate of violence against women in society? Are legally plural states more likely to demonstrate a higher degree of institutionalized inequality and gender-based violence within the family? The analytical peg for Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen (2012) is the feminist evolutionary analytic approach (FEAA) that explains the almost universal prevalence of male dominance among humans during the course of formation of societies. It suggests that violence against women is greater in legal systems that design family law to maximize men's rights.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 105 - 110
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2013

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