THE INCLUSION OF THE SOCIAL QUESTION WITHIN THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE Notes to Rewrite ?Cotton Fields?

CLÉRICO LAURA; NOVELLI CELESTE

Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal

Intersentia

Lugar: Gantes; Año: 2016 vol. 2016 p. 313 - 333

2030-7942

Nancy Fraser argues that the great emphasis that was placed on recognition politics in the fi eld of gender justice at the end of the XXth century benefi ted neo-liberalism.The consequence was the vulnerability to the free-market fundamentalism. Giventhis scenario and taken into consideration that gender issues not only originatefrom recognition defi cits but also stem from inegalitarian distribution, thus the proposal is to couple both kinds of perspectives. Th is framework is useful for posing a new approach to the decision adopted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Case of Gonzáles et al. (?Cotton Field?) v. México. In this case the Court applied a concept of structural inequality with a focus on cultural factors in order to explain the context of systematic discrimination and widespread violence against women in Ciudad Juárez, despite the fact that the murder victims shared similar relevant characteristics: they were young women, workers/students, poor and/or migrant. We conclude that the analysis made by the Court is insufficient.We therefore propose that the ?Cotton Field? judgment should be rewritten in away that will visibilise that gender inequality is due to the lack of both recognition and redistribution politics.