عنوان

Law, Justice, and Gender:

شماره

TLpq2463201593

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Law, Justice, and Gender:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Reyelts, Tara Lindsay

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

(Re)Gendering the Legal System in Ogidi, Igboland

نام ساير پديدآوران

Achebe, Nwando

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Michigan State University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

نام خاص و کميت اثر

338

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Michigan State University

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

In this study, I use the town of Ogidi as a case study to examine how female-centric law in Igboland became eclipsed by male-centric colonial law oge ndi ocha chilu, during the time that the British ruled. I privilege indigenous knowledge as part of my methodological approach to write an Igbo history from Igbo perspectives. For this reason, I engage in frequent use of Igbo words, phrases, periodization, and proverbs to explain both change and continuity in Ogidi and Igboland over time. This dissertation is structured around three broad arguments. First, all forms of law that the people of Ogidi followed tupu ndi ocha bia (before the arrival of the British) were gendered female, as the Igbo earth goddess oversaw all legal pronouncements, judgments, and punishments, and as she designated women's councils to be judges of morality. Second, British colonial officials and their male Igbo collaborators restructured the legal system in Ogidi by imposing a male-centric law and by endowing men with novel, privileged positions of legislative and judicial authority. Third, the women of Ogidi did not simply accept the re-gendering of law that disenfranchised them and marginalized Igbo deities; rather, they attempted to reassert their judicial authority through various long-established practices that pre-dated the British arrival. While Igbo women's efforts to stop or reverse the male-centric takeover of the law were unsuccessful, the details of their protests against the colonial government and its collaborators represent evidence of the judicial authority that they had once wielded in their communities.

موضوع مستند نشده

African history

موضوع مستند نشده

African studies

موضوع مستند نشده

Gender studies

موضوع مستند نشده

Law

موضوع مستند نشده

Native American studies

موضوع مستند نشده

Womens studies

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Achebe, Nwando

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Reyelts, Tara Lindsay

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y