{"product_id":"intersectionality-and-women-s-access-to-justice-in-africa-9781793632678","title":"Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntersectionality 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Layered Intersectionality and Framing Feminist Legal Discourse on Access to Justice for Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. Jarpa Dawuni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Women and Access to the Bench\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Status of Women Judges in Algeria: Achievements and Pathways for the Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamia Bourouba\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Opening the Door for Women in the Cape Verdean Judiciary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustice Vera Duarte\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Women Judges in Ethiopia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaame Efua Addadzi-Koom and Biruh Gemeda Gage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Battle for Women in the Egyptian Judiciary: Reality, Laws, and Aspirations or a Dream Come True?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOmnia Taher Gadalla\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Making Gains for Women’s Rights: Using Gender Quotas to Achieve Gender Equality in the Composition of the Supreme Court of Kenya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnerita Murungi and Agnes Meroka-Mutua\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: “Your Whole Life is an Interview to Get to the Bench:” Gender and Judicial Appointments in Malawi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Ellett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Gender Transformation of the Judiciary in South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustice Constance Baratang Mocumie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: A Critical Assessment of the Status of Women Judicial Officers in Uganda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosephine Ndagire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Women and Access to the Courtroom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Women’s property rights and discriminatory land tenure systems in Ghana: The adjudicative role of courts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Addaney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: The making and unmaking of gender: Reflections on questions of gender and the judiciary in Namibia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKennedy Kariseb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Women and environmental justice issues in Nigeria: An evaluation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEghosa Ekhator and Pedi Obani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Contribution of the judiciary to the advancement and protection of women’s matrimonial and inheritance rights in Rwanda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie-Rose Turamwishimiye and Odette Uwineza\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: Women and Access to Traditional Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Gender and Customary justice among the Podoko of the Mandara mountains of the far north region of Cameroon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeremie Diye\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Juxtaposing the efficacy of testacy and intestacy to inheritance rights for Rukuba widows and children under Nigeria’s Plural Legal System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Badejogbin andVickiLawal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Transforming traditional justice through gender diversification: Comparing two South African communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSindiso Mnisi Weeks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion and Recommendations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Intersectionality, access to justice and women’s experiences: Policy recommendations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. Jarpa Dawuni and Stephen Muthoka Mutie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042665398615,"sku":"9781793632678","price":86.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intersectionality-and-women-s-access-to-justice-in-africa-9781793632678","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}