Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa / / Edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni.

• Superior document: Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa
• TeilnehmendeR: Dawuni, J. Jarpa,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2022.; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages)

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 an...

Table of Contents

• 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
• 2. An analysis of gender equality jurisprudence by Kenyan courts since the enactment of the 2010 constitution
• 3. To win both the battle and the war: Judicial determination of property rights of spouses in Ghana
• 4. "Judging" lesbians: Prospects for advancing lesbian rights protection through the courts in Nigeria
• PART II: Emerging gender issues in the courts
• 5. Femicide and judging: Social media as an alternative online court in Kenya
• 6. Judging beyond gender: Maternal and infant mortality as an emerging gender-related issue in Ugandan courts
• 7. Revenge pornography as a form of sexual and gender-based violence in Ghana: Emerging judicial issues
• 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
• 9. The feminine face of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
• 10. Pursuing gender equality through the courts: The role of South Africa's women judges
• 11. One sauce for the goose, another for the gander: Zambian women judges and perceptions of illegitimacy
• PART IV: Judicial training and gender
• 12. Unlocking gender inequality through judicial training: Insights from Tanzania
• 13. Gender awareness training in Judicial Training Institutes in Kenya and Uganda
• PART V: COVID-19 pandemic and gender-related judicial issues
• 14. The COVID-19 pandemic, courts, and the justice system
• 15. Sexual and gender-based violence in Uganda during the COVID 19 pandemic: New and old lessons for the criminal justice system.