Fighting Tradition

This article concerns gender violence against indigenous Miskitu women in Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) by examining how violence toward RAAN women is linked not only to culturally-based perceptions of love and marriage, but also to disruptive gender relations caused by ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
Main Author: Herlihy, Laura Hobson
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2012
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/117718011200800405
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/117718011200800405