The state and violence against women in Peru: Intersecting inequalities and patriarchal rule

Study
Latin America and the Caribbean

Executive Summary

This article builds on long-term research looking at violence against women in both war and peace, and recently gathered data regarding persistent failure to use policy as a tool to reduce such violence in Peru. The research shows that impunity and tolerance for violence against women persists despite a state that has actively intervened to eradicate such violence for some twenty years. Including the state as perpetrator of violence in the analysis of impunity helps understand the failure of policy and legislation. Moreover, the notion of patriarchy allows us to look at a historically shaped male-centered and sexist organization of state and society, and helps understand the ambiguities in contemporary policy and legislation. This article is only accessible with journal subscription.

Author(s)

Jelke Boesten
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.

 

 


 

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