Gender Violence in Africa: African Women's Responses. (Book Reviews).

Green, December. 1999. GENDER VIOLENCE IN AFRICA: AFRICAN WOMEN'S RESPONSES. New York: St. Martin's Press. 298 pp.

Violence against women is currently a major and global issue. In Africa, as in the rest of the world, it has long been ignored or denied. In public and private context, the practices of rape, wife battering and female gynecological surgeries have been justified by customary and codified legal systems which either do not deal with or specifically allow physical and emotional violence targeted at women. Recently, a number of organizations have established policies ...

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