Women And Law In West Africa
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Women Law In West Africa
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Author : Akua Kuenyehia
language : en
Publisher: Sedco Publishing
Release Date : 1998
Women Law In West Africa written by Akua Kuenyehia and has been published by Sedco Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Law categories.
A study of legal issues affecting women in West Africa, looking at how women cope. The contributors bring perspectives from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia and discuss topics such as parenting, fostering, adoption and domestic employment.
Women And Law In West Africa
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Author : Akua Kuenyehia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Women And Law In West Africa written by Akua Kuenyehia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Domestic relations categories.
Women And Law In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Cynthia Grant Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Sedco Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Women And Law In Sub Saharan Africa written by Cynthia Grant Bowman and has been published by Sedco Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Law categories.
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.
Gender And The Judiciary In Africa
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Author : Gretchen Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-30
Gender And The Judiciary In Africa written by Gretchen Bauer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-30 with Political Science categories.
Between 2000 and 2015, women ascended to the top of judiciaries across Africa, most notably as chief justices of supreme courts in common law countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia, but also as presidents of constitutional courts in civil law countries such as Benin, Burundi, Gabon, Niger and Senegal. Most of these appointments was a "first" in terms of the gender of the chief justice. At the same time, women are being appointed in record numbers as magistrates, judges and justices across the continent. While women’s increasing numbers and roles in African executives and legislatures have been addressed in a burgeoning scholarly literature, very little work has focused on women in judiciaries. This book addresses the important issue of the increasing numbers and varied roles of women judges and justices, as judiciaries evolve across the continent. Scholars of law, gender politics and African politics provide overviews of recent developments in gender and the judiciary in nine African countries that represent north, east, southern and west Africa as well as a range of colonial experiences, postcolonial trajectories and legal systems, including mixes of common, civil, customary, or sharia law. In the process, each chapter seeks to address the following questions: What has been the historical experience of the judicial system in a given country, from before colonialism until the present? What is the current court structure and where are the women judges, justices, magistrates and other women located? What are the selection or appointment processes for joining the bench and in what ways may these help or hinder women to gain access to the courts as judges and justices? Once they become judges, do women on the bench promote the rights of women through their judicial powers? What are the challenges and obstacles facing women judges and justices in Africa? Timely and relevant in this era in which governmental accountability and transparency are essential to the consolidation of democracy in Africa and when women are accessing significant leadership positions across the continent, this book considers the substantive and symbolic representation of women’s interests by women judges and the wider implications of their presence for changing institutional norms and advancing the rule of law and human rights.
African Women The Law
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Author : Margaret Jean Hay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
African Women The Law written by Margaret Jean Hay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Political Science categories.
Gender And Law
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Author : Gita Gopal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Gender And Law written by Gita Gopal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Law and economic development categories.
Women Law And Human Rights
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Author : Fareda Banda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Women Law And Human Rights written by Fareda Banda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Women categories.
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.
Women Law In East Africa
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Author : Njeri Karuru
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Women Law In East Africa written by Njeri Karuru and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Women categories.
Women Creating Patrilyny
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Author : Audrey Smedley
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2004
Women Creating Patrilyny written by Audrey Smedley and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Psychology categories.
Audrey Smedley offers a unique interpretation of the role of women in traditional patrilineal societies. Her research with the Birom people of Nigeria reveals that one reason for the dominance of patrilyny as an organizing principle in human societies is that many of its critical features were in fact invented by women. She raises new questions about the nature of patrilineal systems, and why women have protected and promoted the values and principles of patrilyny in many societies. Smedley's study of the Birom contradicts the vision of women as passive agents in the construction of social realities. She shows how relationships among men are more rigidly cast than those among women, or between women and men. Individual chapters explore the nature of gender distinctions, how they evolved historically, and how women's decision-making contributes to the successful exploitation of their environment. Smedley critiques Western feminist philosophy and beliefs as they have been applied to indigenous African peoples. This book is a contribution to new global studies that document the realities of women's lives that often contradict Western assumptions. Her book will be a valuable resource for researchers in anthropological kinship and theory, gender studies, race & ethnicity, and African studies.
Women Of Africa
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Author : Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
language : en
Publisher: London : Zed Press ; Totowa, N.J., U.S.A. : U.S. distributor, Biblio Distribution Center
Release Date : 1983
Women Of Africa written by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli and has been published by London : Zed Press ; Totowa, N.J., U.S.A. : U.S. distributor, Biblio Distribution Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Social Science categories.
Examination of the living conditions and economic role of women in Africa - studies colonialism traditional culture and social change; the family, marriage, divorce, polygamy and women's rights; labour force participation of woman workers and rural women; examines population control incl. Family planning; discusses education of women, political participation, magic and religious practices, etc. Bibliography.