The Right to Say No: Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Kenya, Ghana and Malawi

Criminal Law

The Right to Say No: Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Kenya, Ghana and Malawi

Edited by Melanie Randall · Jennifer Koshen · Patricia Nyaundi
Hart Publishing October 2017

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ISBN-13
9781782258605
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
October 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Marital rape stands at the intersection of the socio-legal issues arising from both domestic violence and sexual assault. For centuries, women who suffered sexual assault perpetrated by their spouses had no legal recourse. A man's conjugal rights included his right to have sexual intercourse with his wife regardless of whether she consented. This right has been recognised in law, and still is in some jurisdictions.

This book emerges from the research undertaken by an innovative multi-country academic collaborative project dedicated to comparatively analyzing the legal treatment of sexual assault in intimate relationships ("marital rape"), with a view to challenging the legal impunity for and inadequate legal responses to this form of gendered violence.

Table of Contents

Part I: Marital Rape, Human Rights and the Law: Mapping the Issues
1. Introduction: Marital Rape and Law Reform: A Comparative Analysis of the Right to Say No
Melanie Randall, Jennifer Koshan and Patricia Nyaundi
2. Marital Rape and Sexual Violence against Women in Intimate Relationships: The Less Recognised Form of Domestic Violence
Melanie Randall
3. Normative and International Human Rights Law Imperatives for Criminalising Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: The Marital Rape Impunity in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Vasanthi Venkatesh and Melanie Randall
4. Pluralistic Legal Systems and Marital Rape: Cross-National Considerations
Vasanthi Venkatesh

Part II: National Case Studies: Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Malawi, Kenya and Ghana
5. The Criminalisation of Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada: A Modest Feminist Success Story in Combating Marital Rape Myths
Jennifer Koshan
6. Legislating against the Odds: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Legislate against Marital Rape in Malawi
Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo and Seodi White
7. Dismantling Barriers to Women’s Equality: Making the Case for the Criminalisation of Marital Rape in Kenya
Winifred Kamau, Patricia Nyaundi and Jane Serwanga
8. Marital Rape under Ghanaian Law
Renee Aku Sitsofe Morhe
9. The Judicial Treatment of Marital Rape in Canada: A Post-Criminalisation Case Study
Jennifer Koshan
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