Gender trauma in Africa: Enhancing women's links to resources

Journal of African Law

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-61

  Tamale, Sylvia ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

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EID: 70449396555     PISSN: 00218553     EISSN: 14643731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021855304481030     Document Type: Article

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16. See Vema Magaya v. Nakayi Shonhiwa Magaya 1999 (1) ZLR 100 (S). Venia Magaya had been married but was divorced and had returned to her parents' home with whom she had lived for over 20 years.
17. For a detailed analysis of this case, see Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA) Research and Educational Trust, Vema Magaya's Sacrifice: A Case of Custom Gone Awry, Harare: WLSA, 2001.
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20. The concept of “empowerment” as used in this paper is not in the restrictive notion reflected in the power-over conceptualization. Rather, it is conceived as power-to (power which is creative and enabling), power-with (involving a sense of collective organizing and unity) and power-within (to do with self-respect and self-acceptance). Adopted from the Oxfam Gender Training Manual, Oxfam (UK), 1994.
21. See generally papers in 47(2) Journal of African Law.
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24. Elson's first articulation on the “Care Economy” was in her article, “From survival strategies to transformation strategies: Women's needs and structural adjustment”, in L. Benería and S. Feldman (eds.), Unequal Burden: Economic Crisis, Persistent Poverty and Women's Work, Westview Press, Boulder, 1992, 26–48.
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27. reprinted in (1980) 19 I.L.M. 33, article 5(a).
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