Gender, judging, and the courts in Africa : selected studies / edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dawuni, J. Jarpa, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa.

Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women judges--Africa.

Women judges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries. Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigates how women have fared within domestic African judiciaries, as both actors and litigants. It explores how women negotiate multiple hierarchies to access the judiciary, and how gender-related issues are handled in courts. The chapters in the book provide policy, theoretical and practical prescriptions to the challenges identified, and offer recommendations for the future directions of gender and judging in the post-Covid-19 era, including the role of technology, artificial intelligence, social media, and institutional transformations that can help promote women's rights. Bringing together specific cases from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa, and regional bodies such as ECOWAS and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and covering a broad range of thematic reflections, this book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners of African law, judicial politics, judicial training, and gender studies. It will also be useful to bilateral and multilateral donor institutions financing gender sensitive judicial reform programs particularly in Africa.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement Page

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

Note From chief justice of tanzania

Foreword

Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender and judging across Africa: A case of old wine in new skins or new wine in old skins?

Part I Women and gender-related jurisprudence in the courts

Chapter 2 An analysis of gender equality jurisprudence by Kenyan courts since the enactment of the 2010 constitution

Chapter 3 To win both the battle and the war: Judicial determination of property rights of spouses in Ghana

Chapter 4 "Judging" lesbians: Prospects for advancing lesbian rights protection through the courts in Nigeria

Part II Emerging gender issues in the courts

Chapter 5 Femicide and judging: Social media as an alternative online court in Kenya

Chapter 6 Judging beyond gender: Maternal and infant mortality as an emerging gender-related issue in Ugandan courts

Chapter 7 Revenge pornography as a form of sexual and gender-based violence in Ghana: Emerging judicial issues

Chapter 8 Litigating gender discrimination cases before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

Part III Judicial appointments and gender representation in regional bodies and national courts

Chapter 9 The feminine face of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

Chapter 10 Pursuing gender equality through the courts: The role of South Africa's women judges

Chapter 11 One sauce for the goose, another for the gander: Zambian women judges and perceptions of illegitimacy

Part IV Judicial training and gender

Chapter 12 Unlocking gender inequality through judicial training: Insights from Tanzania

Chapter 13 Gender awareness training in Judicial Training Institutes in Kenya and Uganda.

Part V COVID-19 pandemic and gender-related judicial issues

Chapter 14 The COVID-19 pandemic, courts, and the justice system

Chapter 15 Sexual and gender-based violence in Uganda during the COVID-19 pandemic: New and old lessons for the criminal justice system

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429327865

0429327862

9781000473308

1000473309

OCLC:

1276857983

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429327865