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Title:

IN THE SHADOW OF MARRIAGE
GENDER AND JUSTICE IN AN AFRICAN COMMUNITY

By:

Anne Griffiths

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0226308731

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9780226308739

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

11 December, 1997

Pages:

320

Description:

A comparison between the traditional customary legal system and the colonial common law of courts and magistrates in Botswana. This study shows how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations which heavily favour males, and which block women's access to law.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

16 halftones, 4 maps, 4 line drawings

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University of Chicago Press

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