Gender, judging, and the courts in Africa : selected studies / edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni.
"Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gen...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York : Washington, D.C. :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group ; The World Bank,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | "Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries. Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigates how women have fared within domestic African judiciaries, as both actors and litigants. It explores how women negotiate multiple hierarchies to access the judiciary, and how gender-related issues are handled in courts. The chapters in the book provide policy, theoretical and practical prescriptions to the challenges identified, and offer recommendations for the future directions of gender and judging in the post-Covid-19 era, including the role of technology, artificial intelligence, social media, and institutional transformations that can help promote women's rights. Bringing together specific cases from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa, and regional bodies such as ECOWAS and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and covering a broad range of thematic reflections, this book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners of African law, judicial politics, judicial training, and gender studies. It will also be useful to bilateral and multilateral donor institutions financing gender sensitive judicial reform programs particularly in Africa"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429327865 0429327862 9781000473308 1000473309 9780367344580 0367344580 9781032129525 1032129522 |