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Fareda Banda, Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective

Fareda Banda, Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective Book Reviews – Critique Bibliographique 295 attempting to speak to and of international legal feminism, it does so through the dominant voices of western legal scholars. While acknowledging through Karen Engle’s chapter the damaging critique that first world feminists, by focusing on culture rather than poverty, are implicated in the massive inequalities in wealth between first and third worlds, the book perhaps heightens the sting of this critique by failing to include the voices of third world feminist legal scholars in the assessment and questioning of the past, present and future of international legal feminism as a discipline. Despite this shortcoming, the book succeeds in opening a much-needed conversation among international legal feminists about where we’ve been and where we’re going, and most importantly, how we might reinvent the strategies for getting there. Treva Braun Africa Legal and Human Rights Programme Coordinator for Forest Peoples Project UK-based NGO Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective, Fareda Banda [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005] pp. xlv, 407, index The feminist voice has only relatively recently begun to be heard in the context of the international human rights movement.1 This voice, however, is growing louder. As Lacey highlights, “Feminism and human http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Journal of International and Comparative Law Edinburgh University Press

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Book Reviews – Critique Bibliographique 295 attempting to speak to and of international legal feminism, it does so through the dominant voices of western legal scholars. While acknowledging through Karen Engle’s chapter the damaging critique that first world feminists, by focusing on culture rather than poverty, are implicated in the massive inequalities in wealth between first and third worlds, the book perhaps heightens the sting of this critique by failing to include the voices of third world feminist legal scholars in the assessment and questioning of the past, present and future of international legal feminism as a discipline. Despite this shortcoming, the book succeeds in opening a much-needed conversation among international legal feminists about where we’ve been and where we’re going, and most importantly, how we might reinvent the strategies for getting there. Treva Braun Africa Legal and Human Rights Programme Coordinator for Forest Peoples Project UK-based NGO Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective, Fareda Banda [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005] pp. xlv, 407, index The feminist voice has only relatively recently begun to be heard in the context of the international human rights movement.1 This voice, however, is growing louder. As Lacey highlights, “Feminism and human

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Published: Sep 1, 2006

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