ABSTRACT
Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries.
Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigates how women have fared within domestic African judiciaries as both actors and litigants. It explores how women negotiate multiple hierarchies to access the judiciary, and how gender-related issues are handled in courts. The chapters in the book provide policy, theoretical and practical prescriptions to the challenges identified, and offer recommendations for the future directions of gender and judging in the post-COVID-19 era, including the role of technology, artificial intelligence, social media, and institutional transformations that can help promote women’s rights.
Bringing together specific cases from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, and South Africa and regional bodies such as ECOWAS and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and covering a broad range of thematic reflections, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of African law, judicial politics, judicial training, and gender studies. It will also be useful to bilateral and multilateral donor institutions financing gender-sensitive judicial reform programs, particularly in Africa.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429327865/gender-judging-courts-africa-jarpa-dawuni, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|22 pages
Introduction
part I|54 pages
Women and gender-related jurisprudence in the courts
chapter 2|15 pages
An analysis of gender equality jurisprudence by Kenyan courts since the enactment of the 2010 constitution
chapter 3|15 pages
To win both the battle and the war
chapter 4|20 pages
“Judging” lesbians
part II|82 pages
Emerging gender issues in the courts
chapter 6|24 pages
Judging beyond gender
chapter 7|19 pages
Revenge pornography as a form of sexual and gender-based violence in Ghana
part III|72 pages
Judicial appointments and gender representation in regional bodies and national courts
chapter 10|20 pages
Pursuing gender equality through the courts
chapter 11|22 pages
One sauce for the goose, another for the gander
part IV|43 pages
Judicial training and gender
part V|44 pages
COVID-19 pandemic and gender-related judicial issues