Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One The Nature and Future of Customary Law
- Part Two Ascertainment, Application, and Codification of Customary Law
- Part Three The Role and Power of Traditional Authorities
- Part Four Customary Land, Property Rights, and Succession
- Part Five Customary Criminal Law
- Part Six Customary Law, Human Rights, and Gender Equality
- 18 Customary Law, Gender Equality, and the Family
- 19 African Customary Law and Women’s Human Rights in Uganda
- 20 Women’s Rights, Customary Law, and the Promise of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
- 21 From Contemporary African Customary Laws to Indigenous African Law
- Index
- References
18 - Customary Law, Gender Equality, and the Family
The Promise and Limits of a Choice Paradigm
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One The Nature and Future of Customary Law
- Part Two Ascertainment, Application, and Codification of Customary Law
- Part Three The Role and Power of Traditional Authorities
- Part Four Customary Land, Property Rights, and Succession
- Part Five Customary Criminal Law
- Part Six Customary Law, Human Rights, and Gender Equality
- 18 Customary Law, Gender Equality, and the Family
- 19 African Customary Law and Women’s Human Rights in Uganda
- 20 Women’s Rights, Customary Law, and the Promise of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
- 21 From Contemporary African Customary Laws to Indigenous African Law
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The legal regulation of the family under customary law is characterized by complexity within particular traditional legal systems and by diversity across the wider range of such systems within Africa. Customary law may determine the rights and obligations of spouses, the terms of marriage formation and dissolution, the implications of marriage for family membership, parental rights and obligations regarding children, custody of children upon marital dissolution, land acquisition, ownership and inheritance, and often governance structures within the community. Virtually all of these legal norms have implications for gender equality.
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- The Future of African Customary Law , pp. 423 - 445Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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