TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mvududu,Sarah C.
AU  - Joseph,Chikadzi
AU  - Letuka,Puleng
AU  - Matashane-Marite,Keiso
AU  - Kaunda,Dorothy
AU  - Tembo,Eulalia
AU  - Hlanze,Zakhe E..
AU  - Chileshe,Priscilla
AU  - Nzira,Tsitsi
ED  - Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project
TI  - Lobola: its implications for women's reproductive rights in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe 
SN  - 1779150067
AV  - HQ1236.5.A35 LOB 
PY  - 2002///
PB  - Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust, Weaver Press
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Africa
KW  - Bride price
N1  - 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
ER  -