The Legal Status of Nigerian Women with Special Reference to Marriage

The Legal Status of Nigerian Women with Special Reference to Marriage
Author: Euna E. A. Amechi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1979
Genre: Customary law
ISBN:

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The main purpose of the research was to collect and collate the relevant evidence of the legal status of Nigerian women in marriage and family life. The research was motivated by the relative lack of information on all aspects of women's life. Although a voluminous literature on the Nigerian peoples exists, references to women are incidental - necessary but insignificant adjuncts to discussions of and about men. No substantial legal work on Nigerian women has so far been published. It is in the absence of any comprehensive previous study of the legal status of women in marriage that the present work finds its justification. Women's status in the three types of legally recognized marriages in Nigeria is examined in detail. The thesis is divided into five parts. Part one, consisting of two chapters, is introductory, and covers the historical and legal background necessary for the proper appreciation of the topics discussed later. In part two, the status of women in customary law marriage is examined. The types of marriage, dowry, and the incidents and dissolution of customary marriage are dealt with in six chapters. The impact made on women's status by foreign forms of marriage is discussed in part three. Chapter IX covers marriage according to Islamic law, while women's status in statutory marriage in relation to the formation, incidents and dissolution of marriage forms the subject matter of chapters X and XI. The property rights of married women are dealt with in part four. In chapter XII, women's property rights during marriage are discussed, while in chapter XIII, their rights of succession to property are examined. Part five is the concluding part. The research methods embraced intensive reading in the relevant libraries and archives in London and Nigeria, supplemented by six months of field-work in selected areas of Nigeria.

Women and Children Under Nigerian Law

Women and Children Under Nigerian Law
Author: Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Justice
Publisher: Lagos : The Federal Ministry of Justice
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1990
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 1993-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309048974

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This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.

Gender Equality in a Global Perspective

Gender Equality in a Global Perspective
Author: Anders Ortenblad
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317274229

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Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives need to be taken into account when adapting Gender Equality to specific contexts; suggest research approaches for studies on whether a universal (Western) concept of Gender Equality fits in certain specific contexts; and finally suggests challenges to the existing interpretation of Gender Equality (e.g., theory of intersectionality); and the development of legal and policy framework. This book is situated within the tradition of comparative gender studies. While most other such books take up and compare various ways of implementing (or not implementing) gender equality, this book studies and compares whether or not (and to what extent) a specific definition of Gender Equality (GE) could be adopted by various nations. Thus, all chapter contributors will engage with the same definition of GE, which will be presented within the book, and discuss the possibilities and constrains related to applying such a definition in their particular national context. The readers will learn about the problems of applying a universal concept of Gender Equality and the possible reasons for and modes of adapting Gender Equality to different contexts. Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to maintain a critical and reflexive stance towards the issues raised and will seek to present multiple perspectives and open-ended answers. As such it hopes to contribute to the international discussion of human rights more broadly and Gender Equality specifically. The intended audience is not limited only to but will include policy makers, scholars and students with an interest in Gender issues, Organizational Theory, Political Science, Human Development, Policy Analysis, Globalization and other management sub-disciplines.

Nigeria in the Twentieth Century

Nigeria in the Twentieth Century
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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