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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Women and custom in Namibia: cultural practice versus gender equality?
Editor:Ruppel, Oliver C.ISNI
Year:2008
Pages:228
Language:English
City of publisher:Windhoek
Publisher:Macmillan Education Namibia
ISBN:9789991609386
Geographic term:Namibia
Subjects:women's rights
customary law
Abstract:Since independence in 1990, the Namibian government has made various efforts to strengthen women's rights by according gender equality and later passing various gender-based laws. This book contains a number of essays examining customs of specific relevance to the role and status of women, including polygyny, lobola (bride price) and rules of inheritance. It commences with a poem, An African Woman: Poem by a young Namibian, by Victoria Hasheela. The Introduction outlining the purpose of the book is by Oliver C. Ruppel. This is followed by the following essays: Promoting women's rights and gender equality in Namibia (Anton Bösl); Women's Action for Development: 15 years of experience with customary practice in rural Namibia (Veronica de Klerk); Women and custom in Namibia: a research overview (Lotta Ambunda and Stephanie de Klerk); Polygyny among the Ovambadja: a female perspective (Prisca Anyolo); Strengthening women's rights: the need to address the gap between customary and statutory law in Namibia (Manfred O. Hinz); Women and law reform in Namibia: recent developments (Tousy Namiseb); Some judicial reflections on women and custom in Namibia (Kato van Niekerk); Surveying the implications of violence against women: a perspective from academia (Oliver C. Ruppel, Kingo Mchombu and Itah Kandjii-Murangi); Intersecting grounds of (dis)advantage: the socio-economic position of women subject to customary law - a Southern African perspective (Julie Stewart); and Women and custom in Namibia: the legal setting (Wilmary Visser and Katharina Ruppel-Schlichting). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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