TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowman,Cynthia Grant
AU  - Kuenyehia,Akua
TI  - Women and law in sub-Saharan Africa.
SN  - 9964722354
AV  - AF/KQC145.W64.B68 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Accra, Ghana
PB  - Sedco
KW  - Women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Cases
N1  - 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; `
ER  -