Intersectionality and Women's Access to Justice, edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni, propounds layered intersectionality as a paradigm for examining how gendered factors affect women's access to justice, whether as judges or litigants. Through intersectional and decolonial frameworks, the contributors analyze the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges). This book examines patterns of mutually reinforcing discriminatory practices that women share based on common gender identities and depending on which identities are at play at a given point in time in both traditional and statutory courts. The book provides recommendations for various justice sector providers.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Layered Intersectionality and Framing Feminist Legal Discourse on
Access to Justice for Women
J. Jarpa Dawuni
Part One: Women and Access to the Bench
Chapter 2: Status of Women Judges in Algeria: Achievements and Pathways for
the Future
Samia Bourouba
Chapter 3: Opening the Door for Women in the Cape Verdean Judiciary
Justice Vera Duarte
Chapter 4: Women Judges in Ethiopia
Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom and Biruh Gemeda Gage
Chapter 5: Battle for Women in the Egyptian Judiciary: Reality, Laws, and
Aspirations or a Dream Come True?
Omnia Taher Gadalla
Chapter 6: Making Gains for Womens Rights: Using Gender Quotas to Achieve
Gender Equality in the Composition of the Supreme Court of Kenya.
Annerita Murungi and Agnes Meroka-Mutua
Chapter 7: Your Whole Life is an Interview to Get to the Bench: Gender and
Judicial Appointments in Malawi
Rachel Ellett
Chapter 8: Gender Transformation of the Judiciary in South Africa
Justice Constance Baratang Mocumie
Chapter 9: A Critical Assessment of the Status of Women Judicial Officers in
Uganda
Josephine Ndagire
Part Two: Women and Access to the Courtroom
Chapter 10: Womens property rights and discriminatory land tenure systems in
Ghana: The adjudicative role of courts
Michael Addaney
Chapter 11: The making and unmaking of gender: Reflections on questions of
gender and the judiciary in Namibia
Kennedy Kariseb
Chapter 12: Women and environmental justice issues in Nigeria: An evaluation
Eghosa Ekhator and Pedi Obani
Chapter 13: Contribution of the judiciary to the advancement and protection
of womens matrimonial and inheritance rights in Rwanda
Marie-Rose Turamwishimiye and Odette Uwineza
Part Three: Women and Access to Traditional Justice
Chapter 14: Gender and Customary justice among the Podoko of the Mandara
mountains of the far north region of Cameroon
Jeremie Diye
Chapter 15: Juxtaposing the efficacy of testacy and intestacy to inheritance
rights for Rukuba widows and children under Nigerias Plural Legal System
Rebecca Badejogbin andVickiLawal
Chapter 16: Transforming traditional justice through gender diversification:
Comparing two South African communities
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
Conclusion and Recommendations
Chapter 17: Intersectionality, access to justice and womens experiences:
Policy recommendations
J. Jarpa Dawuni and Stephen Muthoka Mutie
Index
About the Authors
J. Jarpa Dawuni is associate professor of political science at Howard University.
