Africa: The Gender of Law - What the Mapping of Family Laws Reveals

21 August 2018

United Nations — Recent developments around the world give support to the idea of the #MeToo movement's transformative potential. A postmodernist claim was that the feminist movement was essentialist and that no one expression of feminism can be applicable to women of different ethnicity, cultural, or class identity. The #Me Too movement has found expression in different cultural traditions and helped to challenge this theory.

China's #我也是; Latin America's #YoTambien; the Middle East's and the United States' #MeToo have sparked a mini revolution for women. However, the data on the laws remain disappointing.

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