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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Africawith its mix of statute, custom and religionis at the center 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. Women, Law and Human Rightsthe first wide ranging study of women's human rights in Africafocuses 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 and examines the issue of female genital cu.