‘let him take his wife’: Marriage, protection and exploitation of girls in Zimbabwe

Overcoming Child Abuse: A Window on a World Problem

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 353-370

  Armstrong, Alice ^a  

^a NONE   (Zimbabwe)

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EID: 84867016273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780429451218-16     Document Type: Chapter

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2. W. Ncube, Family Law in Zimbabwe (Harare: Legal Resources Foundation, 1989) pp.3-26.
3. G. Feltoe, Guide to the Criminal Law of Zimbabwe (Harare: Legal Resources Foundation, 1985) p.104.
4. A. Armstrong, ‘Custom, Culture and the Sexual Abuse of Girls in Zimbabwe’ in W. Ncube (ed.), Law, Culture, Tradition and Children’s Rights (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996).
5. S. Whitfield, South African Native Law (Cape Town: Juta, 1948) pp.75,459.
6. A. Armstrong, Culture and Choice: Lessons from Survivors of Gender Violence in Zimbabwe, forthcoming 1998.
7. A. Armstrong, Report of Workshops for Traditional Healers and Leaders on Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe (Harare, 1997).
8. A. Armstrong et al., ‘Uncovering Reality: Excavating Women’s Rights in African Customary Law’, International Journal of Law and the Family, 7: Pp.331-2, 1993.
9. W. Holleman, Shona Customary Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952) p.115.
10. F. Olsen, ‘Children’s Rights: Some Feminist Approaches to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’, in P. Alston, S. Parker and J. Seymour, Children's Rights and the Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
11. W. Musarurwa, ‘Was it really rape? Only the courts decide’, The Herald, 10 June 1988.
12. A. Armstrong, ‘School and Sadza: The concept of the best interests of the child in Zimbabwe’, International Journal of Law and the Family, 8: 151-90, 1994.
13. A. Armstrong et al., ‘Towards a cultural understanding of the interplay between children’s and women’s rights: An Eastern and Southern African perspective’, The International Journal of Children's Rights, 3: 333-68, 1995.
14. A. Armstrong, A Child Belongs to Everyone (Florence: UNICEF, Innocenti Centre, 1995).
15. A. Armstrong, Struggling over Scarce Resources (Harare: University of Zimbabwe, 1992).
16. C. Dengu-Zvobgo et al., Inheritance in Zimbabwe: Laws, Customs and Practices (Harare: SAPES Publications, 1994).