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Imagining Women's 'Legal World': Towards a Feminist Theory of Legal Pluralism in Africa
Abstract
This article argues that most feminist legal theory has been located within a dominant and phallocentric legal centralist paradigm and that this has hindered feminism's engagement with legal pluralism. I will argue that theoretical work which privileges state law can at best furnish us with only partial accounts of women's experiences of law. Articulating a feminine view of the (legal) world requires an engagement with legal pluralism.
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“colonial authorities were concerned with controlling migration to urban areas, where migrant male workers served the colonial capitalist economy and were subject to more and more state control, and less and less traditional authority (Manji 1999 444).”
From The Coloniality and Evolution of African Customary Law (2025) · cites this paper as Manji 1999 444
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Metadata
- Authors
- Manji, A. S.
- Affiliations
- Keele University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Manji, Ambreena S
- ORCID
- Manji, Ambreena S
- Venue
- Social & Legal Studies
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-12-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 435-455
- ISSN
- 0964-6639 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7390
- OpenAlex
- W2266800124
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 5
- FWCI
- 1.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social & Legal Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
- Social Sciences › Law › Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law
- Keywords
- feminist legal theory, legal pluralism, state law, African law, women's rights, gender and law
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