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Gender perspective and epistemic justice: An approach to justice for women from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
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Priscilla Brevis Cartes
Universidad de Concepción
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2923-5260
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Abstract
This paper reflects on the incorporation of the gender perspective as a hermeneutical tool for women's access to justice. Specifically, it uses Miranda Fricker's notion of epistemic injustice to analyze the impact of epistemic absences on the legal world, which have impeded understanding of women's experiences of oppression and discrimination in international human rights law. In this sense, the gender perspective will be seen as an interpretive tool that allows for a hermeneutics of absences in law, thereby arguing that the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights constitute an act of epistemic justice, exemplified by gender violence and, paradigmatically, obstetric violence.
