Women and Democracy

Women and Democracy
Author: Jane S. Jaquette
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998-10-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780801858383

A unique look at the political experiences of women in two regions of the world--Latin American and Eastern and Central Europe--which have moved from authoritarian to democratic regimes. By examining various political attitudes and efforts of women as they learn to participate in the political process, contributors offer important new insights into democratic consolidation.

Ending Gender-Based Violence

Ending Gender-Based Violence
Author: Hannah E. Britton
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252051971

South African women's still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women's rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner violence. Hannah E. Britton examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. Venturing into South African communities, Britton invites service providers, religious and traditional leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words. Britton finds the recent turn toward carceral solutions—with a focus on arrests and prosecutions—fails to address the complexities of the problem and looks at how changing specific community dynamics can defuse interpersonal violence. She also examines how place and space affect the implementation of policy and suggests practical ways policymakers can support street level workers. Clear-eyed and revealing, Ending Gender-Based Violence offers needed tools for breaking cycles of brutality and inequality around the world.

Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds

Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds
Author: Mark S. Kende
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009-03-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521879043

This book examines the South African Constitutional Court to determine how it has functioned during the nation's transition.

Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States

Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States
Author: Associate Professor of Political Science Monique Deveaux
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199289794

This book offers a persuasive new argument for reconciling the tensions that arise when liberal democratic states try to protect two important kinds of equality: sexual equality and cultural equality.

My Own Liberator

My Own Liberator
Author: Dikgang Moseneke
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1770105093

In My Own Liberator, Dikgang Moseneke pays homage to the many people and places that have helped to define and shape him. In tracing his ancestry, the influence on both his maternal and paternal sides is evident in the values they imbued in their children – the importance of family, the value of hard work and education, an uncompromising moral code, compassion for those less fortunate and unflinching refusal to accept an unjust political regime or acknowledge its oppressive laws. As a young activist in the Pan-Africanist Congress, at the tender age of fifteen, Moseneke was arrested, detained and, in 1963, sentenced to ten years on Robben Island for participating in anti-apartheid activities. Physical incarceration, harsh conditions and inhumane treatment could not imprison the political prisoners’ minds, however, and for many the Island became a school not only in politics but an opportunity for dedicated study, formal and informal. It set the young Moseneke on a path towards a law degree that would provide the bedrock for a long and fruitful legal career and see him serve his country in the highest court. My Own Liberator charts Moseneke’ s rise as one of the country’s top legal minds, who not only helped to draft the interim constitution, but for fifteen years acted as a guardian of that constitution for all South Africans, helping to make it a living document for the country and its people.

Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments

Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments
Author: Rosalind Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108415334

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence

The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence
Author: Beverley Baines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521530279

To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women's lives, the contributors examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in 12 countries, covering cases about reproductive, sexual, familial, socio-economic, and democratic rights, and focussing on women's claims to equality.

The Judiciary in South Africa

The Judiciary in South Africa
Author: Cora Hoexter
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781485101710

Offers a detailed account of all the most important aspects of the judiciary in South Africa, both now and in the past. Provides a general survey of the judiciary as an institution.

Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa

Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa
Author: J. Jarpa Dawuni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000473309

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.

The Public Law of Gender

The Public Law of Gender
Author: Kim Rubenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107138574

Examines the public law of gender and equality from the perspectives of comparative constitutional law, international law and governance.