TY - JOUR
T1 - Women's Rights and Opposition
T2 - Explaining the Stunted Rise and Sudden Reversals of Progressive Violence against Women Policies in Contentious Contexts
AU - O'Brien, Cheryl
AU - Walsh, Shannon Drysdale
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - International conventions and domestic laws have been enacted to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women worldwide. However, these progressive policy initiatives have faced opposition in contentious contexts where policy rivals have contested their creation and implementation. Existing scholarship focuses primarily on progressive networks that have led to policy advances, such as violence against women (VAW) policies, while emerging literature has noted their limited impact and implementation. However, there is scant attention paid to one major underlying cause of limited impact and problematic implementation: That there is sustained opposition to these policies by policy rivals that resist and undermine progressive policies. We identify opponents and entrenched opposition to VAW laws in Mexico and Nicaragua in the 1990s and 2010s. We also identify how these opponents leverage ties with the state and utilise 'family discourse', framing progressives as anti-family, as strategies and mechanisms for stunting and even reversing VAW laws.
AB - International conventions and domestic laws have been enacted to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women worldwide. However, these progressive policy initiatives have faced opposition in contentious contexts where policy rivals have contested their creation and implementation. Existing scholarship focuses primarily on progressive networks that have led to policy advances, such as violence against women (VAW) policies, while emerging literature has noted their limited impact and implementation. However, there is scant attention paid to one major underlying cause of limited impact and problematic implementation: That there is sustained opposition to these policies by policy rivals that resist and undermine progressive policies. We identify opponents and entrenched opposition to VAW laws in Mexico and Nicaragua in the 1990s and 2010s. We also identify how these opponents leverage ties with the state and utilise 'family discourse', framing progressives as anti-family, as strategies and mechanisms for stunting and even reversing VAW laws.
KW - Central America and Latin America
KW - Conservative groups
KW - Implementation
KW - Mexico
KW - Nicaragua
KW - Progressive policy change
KW - Transnational advocacy networks
KW - Violence against women
KW - Women's rights
KW - religion
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U2 - 10.1017/S0022216X19000956
DO - 10.1017/S0022216X19000956
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072245998
SN - 0022-216X
VL - 52
SP - 107
EP - 131
JO - Journal of Latin American Studies
JF - Journal of Latin American Studies
IS - 1
ER -