This article analyses feminist discourses on the criminalisation of violence against women in Ecuador, after the enactment of a “post-neoliberal” constitution. It responds to arguments in feminist legal theory, which affirm that penal expansion thrives through neoliberal globalisation, and that certain feminists have sponsored this carceral-neoliberal alliance, over and above redistributive concerns. However, in Ecuador, many feminists who participated in a recent criminalisation process also endorsed the post-neoliberal government’s social redistribution programme. Ecuadorian feminism therefore complicates current discussions on carceral and governance feminism, which link penal expansion with neoliberalism and an absence of redistributive concerns. Ecuadorian left-leaning feminists use rights-based frameworks to reconcile penal interventions with potential abuses of coercive power. This allows them to regard criminal justice as minimally problematic within the redistributive agenda they endorse. At the same time, the penal approach of Ecuadorian feminists runs the danger of marginalising legally pluralistic approaches to justice.

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女权主义与刑罚扩张：基于权利的刑法在后新自由主义厄瓜多尔的作用

本文分析了在“后新自由主义”宪法颁布后，厄瓜多尔关于将暴力侵害妇女行为定为刑事犯罪的女权主义话语。它回应了女权主义法律理论中的论点，这些论点肯定刑罚扩张通过新自由主义全球化蓬勃发展，并且某些女权主义者支持这种监狱-新自由主义联盟，而不是再分配问题。然而，在厄瓜多尔，许多参与最近刑事定罪过程的女权主义者也支持后新自由主义政府的社会再分配计划。因此，厄瓜多尔的女权主义使当前关于监禁和治理女权主义的讨论复杂化，后者将刑罚扩张与新自由主义和缺乏再分配问题联系起来。厄瓜多尔左倾女权主义者使用基于权利的框架来调和刑事干预与潜在滥用强制权力的行为。这使他们能够将刑事司法视为他们支持的再分配议程中问题最小的。与此同时，厄瓜多尔女权主义者的刑罚方法存在将法律多元化的司法方法边缘化的危险。