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In the Shadow of Marriage
Anne Griffiths
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 halftones, 4 maps, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFMB; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK; JHM; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226308753
SKU
V9780226308753
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99-15
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