Books and Publications

I am dedicated to producing high-quality, community-engaged research and scholarship that addresses pressing social issues. Over the past 20 years, I have developed interdisciplinary, transsystemic, and socio-legal research, resulting in 3 published books, 40 book chapters, 11 journal articles, 10 research and advocacy reports, and 36 opinion pieces. My publications span a broad range of topics, including children's fundamental rights, women's human rights—particularly gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive rights—and consumer rights, with a specific focus on product recalls, advertising regulations, and the regulation of ultra-processed foods.

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Books

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This book examines how the false concept of "parental alienation" is used to undermine women's reports of abuse and remove custody from protective mothers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Though presented as psychological, it functions as institutional violence that hides domestic abuse and reinforces gender stereotypes. Based on a regional seminar led by CLADEM, Equality Now, and the Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law, this interdisciplinary volume analyzes legal trends and case studies from five countries, exposing coordinated efforts by anti-rights groups to roll back feminist advances in family law. Discussions held in Portuguese, automated translation available. This book examines how the false concept of "parental alienation" is used to undermine women's reports of abuse and remove custody from protective mothers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Though presented as psychological, it functions as institutional violence that hides domestic abuse and reinforces gender stereotypes. Based on a regional seminar led by CLADEM, Equality Now, and the Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law, this interdisciplinary volume analyzes legal trends and case studies from five countries, exposing coordinated efforts by anti-rights groups to roll back feminist advances in family law. Discussions held in Portuguese, automated translation available.
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Interviews
Cover of the book titled 'Direitos Humanos das Mulheres e a Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos'
My book analyzes quantitative and qualitative data related to cases of women's human rights violations presented to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, identifying the regional agenda that feminist organizations have pushed through gender-sensitive strategic litigation. This work combined statistical analysis and case analysis, in pioneering jurimetrics work done in Brazil. My book analyzes quantitative and qualitative data related to cases of women's human rights violations presented to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, identifying the regional agenda that feminist organizations have pushed through gender-sensitive strategic litigation. This work combined statistical analysis and case analysis, in pioneering jurimetrics work done in Brazil.
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Abortion and Religion in Brazilian Courts

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves (coord.), Thais de Souza Lapa

In this MacArthur-Foundation-funded book, Aborto e Religião nos Tribunais Brasileiros (2008), I discuss the influence of religious arguments in abortion cases decided by Brazilian courts—in a country where abortion is illegal and is the 5th cause of maternal death. This research was grounded on feminist scholarship, sociological analysis of Catholic religion, and statistical data on court decisions. This was a pioneering work combining socio-legal feminist research and jurimetrics, when the latter was rarely used in Brazil. Available in Portuguese only. In this MacArthur-Foundation-funded book, Aborto e Religião nos Tribunais Brasileiros (2008), I discuss the influence of religious arguments in abortion cases decided by Brazilian courts—in a country where abortion is illegal and is the 5th cause of maternal death. This research was grounded on feminist scholarship, sociological analysis of Catholic religion, and statistical data on court decisions. This was a pioneering work combining socio-legal feminist research and jurimetrics, when the latter was rarely used in Brazil. Available in Portuguese only.
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Book Chapters, Articles and Other Publications

Echoes from Brazil: Remembering to Forget

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Chapter 4 of the book Narratives of Memory, Migration, and Xenophobia in the European Union and Canada, 2019.

The Protection of Female Sexual Freedom as an Expression of Human Dignity: Women's Sexual Rights in Contemporary Times

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Book Manual dos Direitos da Mulher, coord. Carolina Valença Ferraz et al., Editora Saraiva, 2013.

Non-Sexist and Anti-Discriminatory Education: An Instrument for the Right to Equality — Formal and Substantive — of Men and Women

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Book Cidadania Plural e Diversidade, coord. Carolina Valença Ferraz, Glauber Salomão Leite and Paulla Christianne da Costa Newton, Editora Verbatim, 2012.

Women's Human Rights on the Agenda: Femicides in Ciudad Juárez

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Gabriela Cunha Ferraz

Publication: Revista da AJURIS, v. 38, n. 122, June 2011.

Women's Human Rights and Sexual/Reproductive Setbacks

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Thaís de Souza Lapa

Publication: Report Direitos Humanos no Brasil 2011.

Same-Sex Relationships in Light of Public International Law

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Gabriela Cunha Ferraz

Publication: Book Direito e Desenvolvimento Humano Sustentável, 2013.

Gender in the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF)

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Flávia Piovesan

Publication: Book Direitos Fundamentais no STF: Balanço e Crítica, 2011.

Legal Instruments and Abortion in Brazilian Courts

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Thaís de Souza Lapa

Publication: Book Direitos Reprodutivos e o Sistema Judiciário Brasileiro, org. Margareth Arilha, Thaís de Souza Lapa and Tatiane Crenn Pisaneschi, Comissão de Cidadania e Reprodução (CCR), 2010.

Trafficking of Women and Sexual Exploitation for Commercial Purposes

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Book Mulher, Sociedade e Direitos Humanos, org. Patrícia Tuma Martins Bertolin and Ana Claudia Pompeu Torezan Andreucci, Editora Rideel, 2010.

Abortion and Religion in Brazilian Courts: A look at cases of anencephaly and other fetal malformations

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Thaís de Souza Lapa

Publication: Book Direito à Reprodução e à Sexualidade: Uma Questão de Ética e Justiça, org. Samantha Buglione and Miriam Ventura, Lumen Juris Editora, 2010.

Emergency Contraception: A New Agenda for the Brazilian Judiciary

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Thaís de Souza Lapa

Publication: Book Direitos Humanos: Uma Reflexão Plural e Emancipatória, 2010.

Trafficking of Girls and Women for Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Problem That Transcends National Borders

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Book Tráfico de Pessoas: Uma Abordagem para os Direitos Humanos, 2013.

Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls in Brazil: From the Invisibility of the Problem to the Possibilities of Eradication

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Helena Pires

Publication: Book Direitos Humanos: Fundamento, Proteção e Implementação - Perspectivas e Desafios Contemporâneos, Volume II, 2007.

The Regulation of Advertising Directed at Children: A meeting point between Children's Rights and Consumer Law

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Revista Luso-Brasileira de Direito do Consumo, Vol. IV, n. 14, 2014.

Impacts of Food Advertising Directed at Children: Ethical and legal issues

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Revista Luso-Brasileira de Direito do Consumo, Vol. I, n. 4, 2011.

Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: Advances and Challenges in Ensuring Full Protection

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Manual dos Direitos da Pessoa com Deficiência (Handbook on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), 2012.

The Protection of Children's Vulnerability Against Marketing Communication

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves

Publication: Book Cuidado e Vulnerabilidade, coord. Tânia da Silva Pereira and Guilherme de Oliveira, Editora Atlas, 2009.

Right to Children's Food and Food Advertising in Brazil

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Luiza Ferreira Lima

Publication: Book Psicobiologia do Comportamento Alimentar, org. Sebastião de Sousa Almeida et al., Editora Rubio, 2013.

Advertising Directed at Children: The Brazilian Case

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Isabella Henriques

Publication: Book Publicidade de Alimentos e Crianças: Regulação no Brasil e no Mundo, coord. Isabella Henriques and Veet Vivarta, Editora Saraiva, 2013.

Recall in Brazil: Challenges and Perspectives

Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves, Thaisa Melo

Publication: Revista dos Tribunais, vol. 960, year 104, October 2015.

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Other Projects

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Gender 305 Podcast

Podcast series on Gender and Human Rights.

At UVIC's Gender Studies Department, I taught Gender and International Human Rights in fall 2022 and 2023, where students created podcast episodes as their final assignments with CFUV's technical support. These episodes, now being published and aired through CFUV, explore diverse topics including abortion rights, LGBTQ2+ and non-binary rights, gender-based discrimination in AI, and violence against Indigenous women in Canada. We invite you to listen and engage in these important conversations.

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