In Search of Gender Justice: Rights and Relationships in Matrilineal Malawi (The International African Library, Series Number 58)

In Search of Gender Justice: Rights and Relationships in Matrilineal Malawi (The International African Library, Series Number 58) image
ISBN-10:

1108473709

ISBN-13:

9781108473705

Author(s): Johnson, Jessica
Released: Dec 06, 2018
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
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Description:

What might gender justice look like in matrilineal Malawi? Ideas about gender and human rights have exerted considerable influence over African policy makers and civil society organisations in recent years, and Malawi is no exception. There, concerted efforts at civic education have made the concepts of human and women's rights widely accessible to the rural poor, albeit in modified form. In this book, Jessica Johnson listens to the voices of ordinary Malawian citizens as they strive to resolve disputes and achieve successful gender and marital relations. Through nuanced ethnographic description of aspirations for gender and marital relationships; extended analysis of dispute resolution processes; and an examination of the ways in which the approaches of chiefs, police officers and magistrates intersect, this study puts relationships between law, custom, rights, and justice under the spotlight.












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