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Book Chapter | 2013

The gender of law: Politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (2013)
in Rachel Sieder and John-Andrew McNeish, eds.: Gender justice and legal pluralities. Latin American and African perspectives. Oxford: Routledge pp. 82-108
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Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Affiliated Senior Researcher
  • bjorn.bertelsen@uib.no
  • 411 03 883
  • Gender
  • Mozambique
  • Law
  • Courts
  • Gender
  • Women

Appears in:

Gender justice and legal pluralities. Latin American and African perspectives
Sieder, Rachel and John-Andrew McNeish

Also in this volume:

  • Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
    Tønnessen, Liv
  • Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala
    Sieder, Rachel
  • An accumulated rage: Legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia
    McNeish, John-Andrew and Ana Cecilia Arteaga Börth

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