Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Family Law: Marriage: Customary Marriage/ Statutory Marriage -- Islamic Marriage -- Age of Marriage -- Polygamy -- Conflicts with constitutional or international -- Divorce: Grounds for divorce -- Matrimonial property and distribution of property -- Child custody -- Support of children after divorce -- Legal treatment of Cohabitation -- Text-note: Procedures and courts -- Women and Access to land -- Women and Inheritance Law: Issues raised by Multiple Wives -- Attempts at Law reform -- Women and reproduction: Introduction -- Reproductive decision- making -- Abortion -- HIV/AIDS and women in Africa -- Pregnancy and childbirth -- Infertility -- Sexual Violence against women: Rape -- Sexual Abuse of Children -- Commercial sexual exploitation of children and sex trafficking of women and girls -- Female circumcision/ Genital mutilation: Domestic Violence: Overview -- "Causes" of Domestic Violence -- Femicide -- Legal Remedies: Employment discrimination: Agricultural employment -- Non- Agricultural employment -- Women's work -- Prostitution -- Sexual Harassment in the workplace --Affirmative Action -- Women and Politics: Under representation and discrimination -- Electoral systems and affirmative action. `