Webinar: Consensual Unions, Property Rights, and Patrimonial Violence against Women in Latin America
Consensual unions in Latin America are becoming more common than marriages. We analyze the evolution of the laws recognizing consensual unions as well as those proscribing domestic violence, including patrimonial violence, for nineteen countries. While the formal property rights of married women and those in consensual unions are now similar, we show that the latter are in a more precarious position, experiencing higher incidences of intimate partner violence. In Colombia and Ecuador, the women in consensual unions also experience higher rates of economic and patrimonial violence. Drawing on qualitative research, we also explore the barriers to women in consensual unions exercising their property rights.
Date: 4 June 2021, 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2021)
Venue: Please register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqceuorzIrGdHXDnggAvt__LvPmERR88CF
Speaker: Dr. Carmen Diana Deere (Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies and Food & Resource Economics at UF; Distinguished Professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), in Quito, Ecuador)
Organising department: Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Organisers: Dr. Marya Hillesland (University of Oxford), Robert Ferritto (University of Oxford), Dr. Marina Korzenevica (University of Oxford)
Part of: Gender, Research and Action in the Global South
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqceuorzIrGdHXDnggAvt__LvPmERR88CF
Booking email: marina.korzenevica@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Marya Hillesland