Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Randall, Melanie
2. Koshan, Jennifer
3. Nyaundi, Patricia

Description

1. x, 309 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Marital rape stands at the intersection of the socio-legal issues arising from both domestic violence and sexual assault. For centuries, women who suffered sexual assault perpetrated by their spouses had no legal recourse. A man's conjugal rights included his right to have sexual intercourse with his wife regardless of whether she consented. This right has been recognised in law, and still is in some jurisdictions today. This book emerges from the research undertaken by an innovative, multi-country, academic, collaborative project dedicated to comparatively analysing the legal treatment of sexual assault in intimate relationships, with a view to challenging the legal impunity for and inadequate legal responses to this form of gendered violence.

Subject

1. Rape in marriage
2. Human rights
3. Law reform

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: pt. I Marital Rape, Human Rights and the Law: Mapping the Issues -- 1. Introduction: Marital Rape and Law Reform: A Comparative Analysis of the Right to Say No / Patricia Nyaundi -- 2. Marital Rape and Sexual Violence against Women in Intimate Relationships: The Less Recognised Form of Domestic Violence / Melanie Randall -- 3. Normative and International Human Rights Law Imperatives for Criminalising Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: The Marital Rape Impunity in Comparative and Historical Perspective / Melanie Randall -- 4. Pluralistic Legal Systems and Marital Rape: Cross-National Considerations / Vasanthi Venkatesh -- pt. II National Case Studies: Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Malawi, Kenya and Ghana -- 5. The Criminalisation of Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada: A Modest Feminist Success Story in Combating Marital Rape Myths / Jennifer Koshan -- 6. Legislating against the Odds: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Legislate against Marital Rape in Malawi / Seodi White -- 7. Dismantling Barriers to Women's Equality: Making the Case for the Criminalisation of Marital Rape in Kenya / Jane Serwanga -- 8. Marital Rape under Ghanaian Law / Renee Aku Sitsofe Morhe -- 9. The Judicial Treatment of Marital Rape in Canada: A Post-Criminalisation Case Study / Jennifer Koshan.

Call number

1. Sc E 17-1559

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The right to say no : marital rape and law reform in Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi / edited by Melanie Randall, Jennifer Koshan and Patricia Nyaundi.

Publisher

1. Oxford ; London : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2017.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Randall, Melanie, editor.
2. Koshan, Jennifer, editor.
3. Nyaundi, Patricia, editor.

LCCN

1. 2017024447

ISBN

1. 9781782258605 hardback alkaline paper
2. 1782258604 hardback alkaline paper

Research call number

1. Sc E 17-1559