Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Layered Intersectionality and Framing Feminist Legal Discourse onAccess 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 Women’s 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: Women’s 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 women’s 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 Nigeria’s 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 women’s experiences: Policy recommendations
J. Jarpa Dawuni and Stephen Muthoka Mutie
Index
About the Authors