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Mediated Intimacies: State Intervention and Gender Violence in Nicaragua

Abstract

This article is part of an investigation into legislative changes initiated by Law 779 in Nicaragua, ‘Comprehensive Law against Violence against Women’, adopted in February 2012. The primary texts that I analyse include the parliamentary debates for the preliminary draft of Law 779, the original body of Law 779, the October 2013 Reform, and the Regulation to Law 779, issued in a presidential decree in July 2014. I organise the analysis around the most controversial legal figure of Law 779: mediation. Analysing the trajectory of Law 779 in the post-war scenario in Nicaragua, I conclude that the re-establishment of mediation represents a regressive reaffirmation of the patriarchal authority under the paraphragm of community empowerment. The family-centred rhetoric of the Regulations to Law 779 implies a capitulation of the most conservative and religious sectors of society and a dramatic setback of feminist achievements towards the recognition of women as subject to rights. In fact, these are battles about the cultural interpretation of women’s place, their autonomy and the turbulent reality of the nuclear family and the normative social ties in Central America of the 21st century. They show that women’s autonomy is still symbolically encoded as dangerous, even as a threat to the collective interests of the family and the nation.

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