Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania write by Helen Dancer. This book was released on 2015. Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a 'land rush' and land grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the ground and, in particular, how have women experienced this? This book seeks to re-orientate current debates on women's land rights towards a focus on the law in action. Centring on cases involving women litigants, the book considers the extent to which women are realising their interests in land through land courts and follows the progression of women's claims to land - from their social origins through processes of dispute resolution to judgment"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture write by Dorothy L. Hodgson. This book was released on 2017-03-27. Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of the relationships between law, custom, gender, marriage and justice among northern Tanzania’s Maasai communities. When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania—from customary law to human rights—as specific forms of justice that often reflect elite ideas about gender, culture, and social change. Drawing on evidence from Maasai communities, she explores how the legacies of colonial law-making continue to influence contemporary efforts to create laws, codify marriage, criminalize FGM, and contest land grabs by state officials. Despite the easy dismissal by elites of the priorities and perspectives of grassroots women, she shows how Maasai women have always had powerful ways to confront and challenge injustice, express their priorities, and reveal the limits of rights-based legal ideals. “This is a book that only Dorothy Hodgson could have written, with her decades of work in Tanzania, vast networks in Maasailand, and deep ethnographic knowledge, combined with her deftness in working through more theoretical work on gender and human rights. Closely argued, conceptually sharp, and engagingly written.” —Brett Shadle, author of Girl Cases: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970 “Dorothy Hodgson asks a number of important and clearly articulated questions, and provides thoughtful answers to them using a hybrid of historical and anthropological methodologies that combine in-depth case studies with more empirically-informed macro-level reflection. A concise and useful resource in the undergraduate as well as the graduate classroom.” —Priya Lal, author of African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World “Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture makes a significant contribution to the study of law in East Africa and elsewhere among colonized peoples, and it should be required reading not only for academics interested in such matters but for activists and policymakers.” —American Anthropologist “Hodgson’s book is both rich in detail and broad in its implications for understanding struggles for justice for marginalised groups. It deserves the attention of students and scholars of African studies, anthropology, history, political science and women’s and gender studies.” —Journal of Modern African Studies
The Women's Land Rights Movement, Customary Law and Religion in Tanzania
The Women's Land Rights Movement, Customary Law and Religion in Tanzania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Women's Land Rights Movement, Customary Law and Religion in Tanzania write by Bernadeta Killian. This book was released on 2011. The Women's Land Rights Movement, Customary Law and Religion in Tanzania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Unlocking the Dilemmas
Unlocking the Dilemmas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unlocking the Dilemmas write by Leonard Magawa. This book was released on 2018. Unlocking the Dilemmas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this article, a brief overview of how women's land rights are protected in Tanzania is provided. The overview of the legal framework presented in this article focuses on four main areas of law: property law, inheritance law, matrimonial law, and human rights law. The rationale for presenting these areas of law is to underscore the context under which women's land rights are protected in Tanzania. On one side, the existing literature promotes the establishment of legal regime that protects women's land rights. The assumption of this position is that once there are laws for the protection of women's land rights, women will be able to enjoy and realise their land rights. On the other side of the equation is that there is a general trend of condemning some of African traditions and culture which are responsible for thwarting women's land rights in Africa and Tanzania in particular. Some African traditions and culture are deeply rooted in African societies. As such, African traditionalists continue to adhere to African tradition and culture. The requirement to comply with both statutory rules and African traditions and culture creates situations of dilemmas. Despite having a legal framework which protects women's land rights in Tanzania, the existence of dilemmas within the legal system itself and in the African traditions pose challenges which affect negatively women's land rights in Tanzania. The existence of dilemmas makes the enjoyment and realisation of women's land rights in Tanzania to be difficult and challenging. Despite the legal reform in Tanzania, which took place in 1990s and early 2000s, women in Tanzania are still struggling to enjoy and realise their land rights. Thus, the purpose of this article is to identify the specific dilemmas, which undermine the protection of women's land rights in Tanzania. Furthermore, this article examines Tanzania laws which are designed to protect women's land rights. We argue that the existence of dilemmas in law, African traditions, and customs affect negatively the enjoyment and realisation of women's land rights in Tanzania. We conclude that the existence of a legal framework for the protection of women's land rights is not an end in itself; rather efforts should be made to eradicate or reduce the dilemmas, which compromise the enjoyment and realisation of women's land rights in Tanzania.
Women and Land Rights in Tanzania
Women and Land Rights in Tanzania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Land Rights in Tanzania write by Tumaini Elisamia Silaa. This book was released on 2002. Women and Land Rights in Tanzania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
