Contribution to Book
Women in Judiciaries Across Africa
The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies.
(2020)
Abstract
This chapter follows an established tradition of African women scholars who are writing and rewriting history to produce grounded empirical analyses framed within the historical and current lived realities of the African woman. By focusing on women judges across Africa, this chapter contributes to our understanding of women in African judiciaries through an exploratory overview of where women judges are, how they got there, what they do once they get there, and the challenges and triumphs they negotiate at the intersections of gender, class, and professional hierarchies, among others. The chapter builds on my earlier theoretical framework of matri-legal feminism as a lens through which we can understand the positionality and agency of women in judiciaries across Africa.
Keywords
- African women judges; African judiciaries; Women in law
Disciplines
Publication Date
2020
Editor
Yacob-Haliso O., Falola T. (eds)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77030-7_75-1
Citation Information
Dawuni J.J. (2020) Women in Judiciaries Across Africa. In: Yacob-Haliso O., Falola T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77030-7_75-1