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

CLÉRICO LAURA; NOVELLI CELESTE

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Workshop; Workshop; The good, the bad and the ugly and movnig forward: what to learn from International Human Rights Systems; 2016; 2016

Interamerican Human Rights Network (IAHRN)

Nancy Fraser argues that the great emphasis that was placed on recognition politics in the field of gender justice at the end of the XX century benefited neo-liberalism. The consequence was the vulnerability to the free-market fundamentalism. Given this scenario and taken into consideration that gender issues not only originate from recognition deficits but also stem from inegalitarian distribution, thus the proposal is to couple both kinds of perspectives. This 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) vs. 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 a way that will visibilise that gender inequality is due to the lack of both recognition and redistribution politics.