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In the Shadow of Marriage

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This is a comparison between the traditional customary legal system and the colonial common law of courts and magistrates in Botswana. It sets out to show how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations which heavily favour males. Griffiths' analysis is based on careful observation of how people actually experience the law as well as the more standard tools of statutes and cases familiar to Western legal scholars. She explains how women's access to law is determined by social relations over which they have little control. In this powerful feminist critique of law and anthropology, Griffiths shows how law and custom are inseparable for Kwena women. Both colonial common law and customary law pose comparable and constant challenges to Kwena women's attempts to improve their positions in society.

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ISBN: 9780226308753
Publication date: 19th January 1998
Author: Anne M O Griffiths
Publisher: University of Chicago Press an imprint of The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 320 pages
Genres: Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law
Sociology: family and relationships
Anthropology
Gender studies: women and girls
Cultural studies