{"id":1295,"date":"2007-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/addressing-formal-and-substantive-citizenship-gender-justice-in-sub-saharan-africa\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T16:08:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T16:08:44","slug":"addressing-formal-and-substantive-citizenship-gender-justice-in-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/addressing-formal-and-substantive-citizenship-gender-justice-in-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Formal and Substantive Citizenship: Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Celestsine Nyamu-Musembi<\/p>\n<p>Chapter in: Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Navsharan Singh (eds.), <em>Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development, <\/em>Ottawa and New Delhi: IDRC and Kali for Women, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Original available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/en\/book\/gender-justice-citizenship-and-development\">https:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/en\/book\/gender-justice-citizenship-and-development<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This essay presents an overview of key issues in literature on gender justice, citizenship and entitlement in the sub-Saharan Africa region.<\/p>\n<p>The essay begins with definitions of the key terms, making a special effort to draw from literature generated within the region. The second section, constituting most of the essay, is a review of the key literature, arranged by problem areas on which the literature on gender justice has focused. Problem areas I address are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>formal or explicit exclusion of women from full citizenship status;<\/li>\n<li>religion and custom;<\/li>\n<li>gender inequalities in property relations;<\/li>\n<li>gender inequalities in family relations;<\/li>\n<li>women&#8217;s access to justice;<\/li>\n<li>sexual and reproductive health and rights; and<\/li>\n<li>gender justice in economic liberalization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The third section is a brief reflection on links between research and advocacy on women&#8217;s rights in the region. The fourth reviews key initiatives by funding organizations, while the fifth summarizes a region-wide assessment of the key achievements in and challenges to achieving and institutionalizing gender justice. The final section makes recommendations on thematic priorities for applied research from 2005 to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Download file: <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Nyamu-Musembi_Formal_substantive_citizenship_2007.pdf\">Nyamu-Musembi_Formal_substantive_citizenship_2007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Celestsine Nyamu-Musembi Chapter in: Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Navsharan Singh (eds.), Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development, Ottawa and New Delhi: IDRC and Kali for Women, 2007 Original available at: https:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/en\/book\/gender-justice-citizenship-and-development This essay presents an overview of key issues in literature on gender justice, citizenship and entitlement in the sub-Saharan Africa region. The essay begins with [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-pan-africa","type-academic-articles","item-year-485","item-theme-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21124,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/21124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}