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Title:The Power of Participation: Language and Gender in Tanzanian Law Reform Campaigns
Author:Hirsch, Susan F.ISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:49
Issue:2
Period:Summer
Pages:51-75
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:gender relations
women
law
sociolinguistics
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Women's Issues
Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v049/49.2hirsch.pdf
Abstract:Donor-sponsored interactive, educational workshops are a popular format for providing information about law and gender to legal personnel and the general population. This paper explores the dynamics of power and participation in such development efforts by analysing linguistic interaction in a five-day training workshop on sexual assault and domestic violence held in March 1998 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and sponsored by the United States Information Service. Development efforts to educate about the law's role in transforming gender often focus on how people use language in relation to the law with the goal of reducing linguistic sexism in a variety of contexts associated with law. However, projects to alter how peoples use and interpret language are much more complicated than most of those involved imagine. Altering the dynamics of language and authority as a project of development routinely risks replicating or reintroducing unequal power relations. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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