Abstract
The book The Battle for Child Support: Civil Law’s Role in the Construction of Gender and Inequality (2018) uses the category of gender to make a strong critique of the Colombian child support legal structure. Through the statistical analysis of cases gathered in numerous university based legal clinics, the authors establish the inequalities that hide behind the legal processes involving child support. The study of patterns within theses processes reveals the existence of different forms of discrimination which, so far, have not garnered the attention they require. Through this book, the authors analyze the existence of economic violence and gender discrimination against women, to introduce a novel critique in a debate that so far has centered itself around effectiveness and criminalization, but not gender.