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Women, law and human rights : an African perspective /
Africa, with its mix of statute, custom and religion is at the centre of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations. This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its impact on the cultural relativism debate within human rights. It is therefore important to examine critic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Africa, with its mix of statute, custom and religion is at the centre of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations. This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its impact on the cultural relativism debate within human rights. It is therefore important to examine critically the role of law, broadly constructed, in African societies. The book focuses on women's experiences in the family. This is because the lives of women continue to be lived out largely in the private domain, where the right to privacy is used to conceal unequal treatment of women which is justifi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xlv, 407 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-391) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847311830 9781847311832 1280800739 9781280800733 9781472563460 1472563468 1841131288 9781841131283 |