Columbia Journal of Gender and Law articles from September 2006

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law archives from September 2006

Unearthing the customary law foundations of "forced marriages" during Sierra Leone's civil war: the possible impact of international criminal law on customary marriage and women's rights in post-conflict Sierra Leone.
September 22, 2006... [T]here was, in the olden days, marriage by capture. The Protectorate of Sierra Leone was, up to the turn of this century, the battle ground for tribal wars. Men saw in these wars an opportunity of winning wives for themselves. An attack upon a...

The organization as a gendered entity: a response to professor Schultz's the sanitized workplace.(response to Vicki Schultz, Yale Law Journal, vol. 112, P. 2061, 2003)
September 22, 2006... In the two decades since the Supreme Court first recognized the legal harm of sex harassment (1) in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, (2) the trajectory of sex harassment law and policy continues to be controversial, even among gender scholars...

The modern mulatto: a comparative analysis of the social and legal positions of mulattoes in the antebellum South and the intersex in contemporary America.
September 22, 2006... "This case involves the most basic of questions. When is a man a man, and when is a woman a woman? Every schoolchild, even of tender years, is confident he or she can tell the difference, especially if the person is wearing no clothes." (1)...

Assisting and empowering women facing natural disasters: drawing from Security Council resolution 1325.
September 22, 2006... In the wake of the tsunami that hit the coastal communities of the Indian Ocean, images of women were splashed over the media's reports of the catastrophe. But while sympathy for women has garnered a great deal of aid, "[b]eyond the camera lens...

Zimbabwe's Magaya decision revisited: women's rights and land succession in the international context.
September 22, 2006... "Discrimination against women is not compulsory in African society." (1) [W]hose customary law is this anyway? (2) INTRODUCTION When Shonhiwa Magaya died without a legal will, a local court in Zimbabwe designated his eldest child,...

Gendered subjects of transitional justice.
September 22, 2006... Transitional societies must contend with a range of complex challenges as they seek to come to terms with and move beyond an immediate past saturated with mass murder, rape, torture, exploitation, disappearance, displacement, starvation, and...

Political violence and gender during times of transition.
September 22, 2006... At the heart of transitional justice discourse is an ongoing conversation about accountability for human rights violations that occur in a context of regime repression or violent conflict. That accountability dialogue has generally been...

Commissioning the truth. (transitional justice) (Australia)
September 22, 2006... This Article was originally written as an invited contribution to a workshop on Gender and Transitional Justice organized by the International Centre for Transitional Justice. My particular assignment for that workshop was to write a discussion...

Normalizing violence: transitional justice and the Gujarat riots.(India)
September 22, 2006... How does it feel to be Indian Muslim? To be constantly tom by rabid elements that your real home is across the border? (1) In February and March of 2001, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP--World Hindu Council), a religious-based organization...