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Author : Margaret Jean Hay,Marcia Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106008046648
Author : Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107021303
Explores the manifold relationship between black women and international law, highlighting the historic and contemporary ways they have influenced and been influenced.
Author : Margaret Jean Hay,Marcia Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:59875248
Author : Harold Jack Simons
Publisher : Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X000532419
Author : Fareda Banda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847311832
Africa, with its mix of statute, custom and religion is at the centre of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations. This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its impact on the cultural relativism debate within human rights. It is therefore important to examine critically the role of law, broadly constructed, in African societies. The book focuses on women's experiences in the family. This is because the lives of women continue to be lived out largely in the private domain, where the right to privacy is used to conceal unequal treatment of women which is justified by invoking 'custom' and 'tradition'. The book shows how law and its interpretation is used to disenfranchise women, resulting in their being deprived of land and other property which they may have helped to accumulate. It also considers issues of violence within the home, reproductive rights and examines the issue of female genital cutting. The role of women in development is explored as is their participation in politics and the NGO sector. A major theme of the book is a consideration of the linkages of constitutional and international human rights norms with local values. This is done using feminist tools of analysis. The book considers the provisions of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women which was adopted by the African Union in July 2003.
Author : Cynthia Grant Bowman,Akua Kuenyehia
Publisher : Sedco Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113491471
Examines legal problems that affect the status of women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Includes a collection of cases and statutes from various African nations. Presents commentaries by African authors.
Author : John Clay Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0472086464
The reflections on their lives in law of pioneer black women lawyers
Author : Fareda Banda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 1472563468
Africa, with its mix of statute, custom and religion is at the centre of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations. This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its impact on the cultural relativism debate within human rights. It is therefore important to examine critically the role of law, broadly constructed, in African societies. The book focuses on women's experiences in the family. This is because the lives of women continue to be lived out largely in the private domain, where the right to privacy is used to conceal unequal treatment of women which is justifi.
Author : Mary Hallward-Driemeier,Tazeen Hasan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821395349
This book provides compelling evidence from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries that gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed in terms of substance, enforcement, awareness, and access if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa are to continue to expand.
Author : Akua Kuenyehia
Publisher : Walwa
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115185113
A study of legal issues affecting women in West Africa, looking at how women cope.
Author : Njeri Karuru,Agatha Kabugu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021990820
Author : Johanna Bond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004862310
Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women's rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the last decade, women's human rights have been the focus of significant attention at the international level. There remains, however, a dearth of information concerning the application and relevance of international norms at grassroots levels within Africa. There are few works about women's human rights within Africa that are actually written by African women lawyers and human rights activists. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of women in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania; it describes -- in their own words -- the challenges these activists face in implementing international human rights norms at the local and national levels. "The contributors are a unique set of talented analysts... Introductions for each chapter are by Johanna Bond, whose precise summaries and analyses of the topics systematize what would otherwise be repetitive evidence found in similar circumstances in these African countries. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, November 2005 "The book is well worth space on...professionals' bookshelves." -- African Studies Association, 2006 "The book is useful and essential reading for anyone interested in women's rights in Africa. This has to be the most detailed and up-to-date book on women's rights in this region." -- Modern African Studies
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070064071
Author : Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136191572
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.
Author : Veronica Fynn Bruey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793638571
This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies, expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.
