Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa
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Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa

  1. 441 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1: Layered Intersectionality and Framing Feminist Legal Discourse on Access to Justice for Women
  12. Part I: Women and Access to the Bench
  13. Chapter 2: Status of Women Judges in Algeria: Achievements and Pathways for the Future
  14. Chapter 3: Opening the Door for Women in the Cape Verdean Judiciary
  15. Chapter 4: Women Judges in Ethiopia
  16. Chapter 5: Battle for Women in the Egyptian Judiciary: Reality, Laws, and Aspirations or a Dream Come True?
  17. Chapter 6: Making Gains for Women’s Rights: Using Gender Quotas to Achieve Gender Equality in the Composition of the Supreme Court of Kenya
  18. Chapter 7: “Your Whole Life Is an Interview to Get to the Bench”: Gender and Judicial Appointments in Malawi
  19. Chapter 8: Gender Transformation of the Judiciary in South Africa
  20. Chapter 9: A Critical Assessment of the Status of Women Judicial Officers in Uganda
  21. Part II: Women and Access to the Courtroom
  22. Chapter 10: Women’s Property Rights and Discriminatory Land Tenure Systems in Ghana: The Adjudicative Role of Courts
  23. Chapter 11: The Making and Unmaking of Gender: Reflections on Questions of Gender and the Judiciary in Namibia
  24. Chapter 12: Women and Environmental Justice Issues in Nigeria: An Evaluation
  25. Chapter 13: Contribution of the Judiciary to the Advancement and Protection of Women’s Matrimonial and Inheritance Rights in Rwanda
  26. Part III: Women and Access to Traditional Justice
  27. Chapter 14: Gender and Customary Justice among the Podoko of the Mandara Mountains of the Far North Region of Cameroon
  28. Chapter 15: Juxtaposing the Efficacy of Testacy and Intestacy to Inheritance Rights: For Rukuba Widows and Children under Nige ia’s Plural Legal System
  29. Chapter 16: Transforming Traditional Justice through Gender Diversification: Comparing Two South African Communities
  30. Conclusion and Recommendations
  31. Chapter 17: Intersectionality, Access to Justice, and Women’s Experiences: Policy Recommendations
  32. Index
  33. About the Contributors