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Lobola : its implications for women's reproductive rights in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe / created by Sarah C. Mvududu, Chikadzi Joseph, Puleng Letuka, Keiso Matashane-Marite, Dorothy Kaunda, Eulalia Tembo, Zakhe E. Hlanze, Priscilla Chileshe and Tsitsi Nzira.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust , Weaver Press, 2002Description: 51 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1779150067
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.A35 LOB
Contents:
Section 1 Introduction Theoretical framework and critical concepts Section 2 Lobola in context Current lobola practices in the seven WLSA countries Introductory ceremony The main ceremony The legal, social, economic and cultural consequences of current lobola practices for women and girls in the seven WLSA countries Section 3 The dynamics of lobola, the marriage institution and gender rights within families What are women's reproductive rights? Implications of lobola for women's rights Bodily integrity Women as property Violence against women Section 4 Conclusion, recommendations and possible areas of action Recommendations Areas of action Bibliography
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Includes bibliographical references.

Section 1
Introduction
Theoretical framework and critical concepts

Section 2

Lobola in context
Current lobola practices in the seven WLSA countries
Introductory ceremony
The main ceremony
The legal, social, economic and cultural consequences of current lobola practices for
women and girls in the seven WLSA countries

Section 3
The dynamics of lobola, the marriage institution
and gender rights within families
What are women's reproductive rights?
Implications of lobola for women's rights
Bodily integrity
Women as property
Violence against women

Section 4
Conclusion, recommendations and possible areas of action
Recommendations
Areas of action

Bibliography

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