The Right to Say No

Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi

Melanie Randall, Jennifer Koshan, Patricia Nyaundi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2020
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-3669-4 (ISBN)

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Marital rape stands at the intersection of the socio-legal issues arising from both domestic violence and sexual assault. For centuries, women who suffered sexual assault perpetrated by their spouses had no legal recourse. A man’s conjugal rights included his right to have sexual intercourse with his wife regardless of whether she consented. This right has been recognised in law, and still is in some jurisdictions today.

This book emerges from the research undertaken by an innovative, multi-country, academic, collaborative project dedicated to comparatively analysing the legal treatment of sexual assault in intimate relationships, with a view to challenging the legal impunity for and inadequate legal responses to this form of gendered violence.

Melanie Randall is Associate Professor at Western University Faculty of Law, London, ON. Jennifer Koshan is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, AB. Patricia Nyaundi is the CEO of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.

Part I: Marital Rape, Human Rights and the Law: Mapping the Issues
1. Introduction: Marital Rape and Law Reform: A Comparative Analysis of the Right to Say No
Melanie Randall, Jennifer Koshan and Patricia Nyaundi
2. Marital Rape and Sexual Violence against Women in Intimate Relationships: The Less Recognised Form of Domestic Violence
Melanie Randall
3. Normative and International Human Rights Law Imperatives for Criminalising Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: The Marital Rape Impunity in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Vasanthi Venkatesh and Melanie Randall
4. Pluralistic Legal Systems and Marital Rape: Cross-National Considerations
Vasanthi Venkatesh

Part II: National Case Studies: Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Malawi, Kenya and Ghana
5. The Criminalisation of Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada: A Modest Feminist Success Story in Combating Marital Rape Myths
Jennifer Koshan
6. Legislating against the Odds: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Legislate against Marital Rape in Malawi
Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo and Seodi White
7. Dismantling Barriers to Women’s Equality: Making the Case for the Criminalisation of Marital Rape in Kenya
Winifred Kamau, Patricia Nyaundi and Jane Serwanga
8. Marital Rape under Ghanaian Law
Renee Aku Sitsofe Morhe
9. The Judicial Treatment of Marital Rape in Canada: A Post-Criminalisation Case Study
Jennifer Koshan

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2019
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
ISBN-10	1-5099-3669-6 / 1509936696
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-3669-4 / 9781509936694
Zustand	Neuware