Indigenous Women, Rights and the Nation-State in the Andes

Abstract

Through a focus on the Andean region, this chapter argues that the rights granted by states — and those fought for by peasants, by indigenous peoples and by women — have not adequately guaranteed indigenous women’s rights. The multifaceted and contested identities of indigenous women have rather been made invisible in the separate rights associated with class, ‘race’ 2 or gender. Indigenous women’s fluid and multifaceted identities remain only contingently and incompletely guaranteed by the legislation and political demands made in Andean countries over recent decades. In other words, indigenous women fall between the edifice of rights constructed by the states and political movements of the region. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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