Challenging Entrenched Marital Power in South Africa
This brief examines more than thirty years of legal reform aimed at removing husbands’ marital power at the expense of their wives from South African legislation. For decades, marital power relegated wives to a position akin to minors, with devasta...
Main Authors: | Arekapudi, Nisha, Mazoni Silva Martins, Natália |
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Format: | Brief |
Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099437305132237734/IDU0aea226b80db9a048ca0be0f0e7a95e17b7ef http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37817 |
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