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In search of gender justice : rights and relationships in matrilineal Malawi / Jessica Johnson, University of Birmingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Jessica, 1984- author.
- Series:
- International African Library ; 58.
- The International African Library ; 58
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Malawi.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Equality before the law--Malawi.
- Equality before the law.
- Matriarchy--Malawi.
- Matriarchy.
- Women's rights--Malawi.
- Women's rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary of Chichewa terms
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Introduction
- Southern Malawi: matriliny and gender relations
- Food, hunger, and the politics of agriculture
- Justice, morality, and love
- Feminist anthropology?
- Fieldwork setting and research methodology
- Structure of the book
- 1 Love, marriage, and matriliny
- Man trouble
- Love
- To marry or not to marry?
- A matter of time
- 2 Marital disputes and the legal search for justice
- Human and women's rights
- A loose chain of dispute-resolution forums
- Traditional authority
- Community policing and victim support units
- Magistrates' courts
- The ambiguity of legal authority
- 3 Navigating ufulu
- Disputing marriage
- Negotiating rights and custom in the search for justice
- A language of relationships
- Conclusion: towards an anthropology of justice
- 4 Gender justice?
- The jenda agenda
- Misbehaving women or irresponsible men?
- Achieving respectable adulthood
- 'These days there are no marriages'
- Morality
- Complementarity
- Conclusion: from morality to justice
- 5 Handling violence
- Assuming violence
- Gender violence in the magistrates' courts
- 'But how are things in general?'
- Establishing moral personhood: procedure, strategy, and claim-making
- Procedure
- Strategy
- Claim-making
- Extra-linguistic factors
- Beyond violence: nkhanza as a failure of complementarity
- Justice versus law
- 6 Justice in motion
- 'Stigma': moral category and legal challenge
- Kutsala, to leave behind
- Tentative hope in a matrilineal setting
- Conclusion: the temporality of justice and hope
- Conclusion
- Matriliny matters
- Towards an anthropology of gender justice
- Bibliography.
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-108-65430-4
- 1-108-56303-1
- 1-108-67873-4
- OCLC:
- 1060605802
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