The state and violence against women in Peru: Intersecting inequalities and patriarchal rule
Study
Latin America and the Caribbean
Independent of how we wish to interpret the widespread state-sanctioned rape of [I]ndigenous women during the political conflict of the 1980s and 1990s, a question too complex to answer here (but see Boesten 2009), the result is that it perpetuates inequalities based on race, class, and gender, entrenches male control over female sexuality, and further normalizes violence against women.