In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
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Anne M. O. Griffiths (Author)
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This is a comparison between the traditional customary legal system and the colonial common law of courts and magistrates in Botswana. It sets out to show how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations which heavily favour males. Griffiths' analysis is based on careful observation of how people actually experience the law as well as the more standard tools of statutes and cases familiar to Western legal scholars. She explains how women's access to law is determined by social relations over which they have little control. In this powerful feminist critique of law and anthropology, Griffiths shows how law and custom are inseparable for Kwena women. Both colonial common law and customary law pose comparable and constant challenges to Kwena women's attempts to improve their positions in society.
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- Contributor: Anne M. O. Griffiths
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226308739
- Number of Pages: 320
- Packaged Dimensions: 16x24x3mm
- Packaged Weight: 652
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 1997-12-11
- Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
- Binding: Hardback
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