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The right to say no : Marital rape and law reform in Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi / edited by Melanie Randall, Jennifer Koshan and Patricia Nyaundi. - x, 309 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction;
Marital rape and law reform : a comparative analysis of the right to say no / Melanie Randall, Jenifer Koshan and Patricia Nyaundi;
Marital rape and sexual violdence against women in intimate relationships : the less recognised form of domestic violence / Melanie Randall;
Normative and international human rights law imperatives for criminalishing intimate partner sexual violence : the marital rape impunity in comparative and historical perspective / Vasanthi Venkatesh and Melanie Randall;
Pluralistic legal systems and marital rape : cross-national considerations / Vasanthi Venkatesh;
The Criminalisation of marital rape and law reform in Canada : a modest feminist sucess story in combating marital rape myths / Jennifer Koshan;
Legislating aainst the odds : lessons learned from efforts to legislate aginst marital rape in Malawi / Ngeyi Ruth Kamau, Patricia Nyaudi and Jane Serwanga;
Marital rape under Ghanaian law / Renee Aku Sitsofe Morhe;
The judicial treatment of marital rape in Canada : a post-criminalistion case study / Jennifer Koshan.



ISBN: 9781782258605 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2017024447

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rape in marriage.
Human rights.
Law reform.

LC Class. No.: K5197 / .R54 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 344.032829 RAN