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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 October 2018
      01 November 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108563031
      9781108473705
      9781108462471
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563031
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 218 Pages
      • Series:
      The International African Library (58)
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, African Government, Politics and Policy
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    Series:
    The International African Library (58)
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, African Government, Politics and Policy
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    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.

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