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Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa

J. Jarpa Dawuni (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
440 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3267-8 (ISBN)
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This book examines women's access to justice in both traditional and statutory courts through an intersectional lens. It analyzes the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges).
Intersectionality and Women's Access to Justice, edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni, propounds layered intersectionality as a paradigm for examining how gendered factors affect women's access to justice, whether as judges or litigants. Through intersectional and decolonial frameworks, the contributors analyze the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges). This book examines patterns of mutually reinforcing discriminatory practices that women share based on common gender identities and depending on which identities are at play at a given point in time in both traditional and statutory courts. The book provides recommendations for various justice sector providers.

J. Jarpa Dawuni is associate professor of political science at Howard University.

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Layered Intersectionality and Framing Feminist Legal Discourse on Access to Justice for Women

J. Jarpa Dawuni

Part One: Women and Access to the Bench

Chapter 2: Status of Women Judges in Algeria: Achievements and Pathways for the Future

Samia Bourouba

Chapter 3: Opening the Door for Women in the Cape Verdean Judiciary

Justice Vera Duarte

Chapter 4: Women Judges in Ethiopia

Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom and Biruh Gemeda Gage

Chapter 5: Battle for Women in the Egyptian Judiciary: Reality, Laws, and Aspirations or a Dream Come True?

Omnia Taher Gadalla

Chapter 6: Making Gains for Women’s Rights: Using Gender Quotas to Achieve Gender Equality in the Composition of the Supreme Court of Kenya.

Annerita Murungi and Agnes Meroka-Mutua

Chapter 7: “Your Whole Life is an Interview to Get to the Bench:” Gender and Judicial Appointments in Malawi

Rachel Ellett

Chapter 8: Gender Transformation of the Judiciary in South Africa

Justice Constance Baratang Mocumie

Chapter 9: A Critical Assessment of the Status of Women Judicial Officers in Uganda

Josephine Ndagire



Part Two: Women and Access to the Courtroom

Chapter 10: Women’s property rights and discriminatory land tenure systems in Ghana: The adjudicative role of courts

Michael Addaney

Chapter 11: The making and unmaking of gender: Reflections on questions of gender and the judiciary in Namibia

Kennedy Kariseb

Chapter 12: Women and environmental justice issues in Nigeria: An evaluation

Eghosa Ekhator and Pedi Obani

Chapter 13: Contribution of the judiciary to the advancement and protection of women’s matrimonial and inheritance rights in Rwanda

Marie-Rose Turamwishimiye and Odette Uwineza



Part Three: Women and Access to Traditional Justice

Chapter 14: Gender and Customary justice among the Podoko of the Mandara mountains of the far north region of Cameroon

Jeremie Diye

Chapter 15: Juxtaposing the efficacy of testacy and intestacy to inheritance rights for Rukuba widows and children under Nigeria’s Plural Legal System

Rebecca Badejogbin andVickiLawal

Chapter 16: Transforming traditional justice through gender diversification: Comparing two South African communities

Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

Conclusion and Recommendations

Chapter 17: Intersectionality, access to justice and women’s experiences: Policy recommendations

J. Jarpa Dawuni and Stephen Muthoka Mutie

Index

About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
Co-Autor Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom, Michael Addaney, Rebecca Emiene Badejogbin
Vorwort Julia Sebutinde
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 237 mm
Gewicht 767 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-7936-3267-7 / 1793632677
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-3267-8 / 9781793632678
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