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4 - Gender justice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2018

Jessica Johnson
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University of Birmingham
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The focus on justice is developed further in Chapter 4 through consideration of contrasting judgments in magistrates’ courts and an analysis of the form of gender complementarity to which men and women aspire in their marital relationships. Key to the analysis is the idea that complementary gender roles are not defined in advance. In other words, complementarity is not a static model but rather a working moral principle that can be applied differently in different circumstances. By providing an ethnographic illustration of contrary approaches to gender justice, this chapter underlines the degree to which gender norms, custom, rights, and justice are contested in contemporary Malawi.
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In Search of Gender Justice
Rights and Relationships in Matrilineal Malawi
, pp. 94 - 120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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  • Gender justice?
  • Jessica Johnson, University of Birmingham
  • Book: In Search of Gender Justice
  • Online publication: 26 October 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563031.006
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  • Gender justice?
  • Jessica Johnson, University of Birmingham
  • Book: In Search of Gender Justice
  • Online publication: 26 October 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563031.006
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  • Gender justice?
  • Jessica Johnson, University of Birmingham
  • Book: In Search of Gender Justice
  • Online publication: 26 October 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563031.006
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