num_pages: 376
description: In Eritrea state traditional and religious laws equally prevail but any of these legal systems may be put into play depending upon the individual or individuals involved in a legal dispute. Because of conflicting laws it has been difficult for Eritreans to come to a consensus on what constitutes their legal system. In Blood Land and Sex Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman examine the roles of the state ethnic groups religious groups and the international community in several key areas of Eritrean lawblood feud or murder land tenure gender relations (marriage prostitution rape) and female genital surgery. Favali and Pateman explore the intersections of the various laws and discuss how change can be brought to communities where legal ambiguity prevails often to the grave harm of women and other powerless individuals. This significant book focuses on how Eritrea and other newly emerging democracies might build pluralist legal systems that will be acceptable to an ethnically and religiously diverse population.
language: English
title: Blood, Land, and Sex: Legal and Political Pluralism in Eritrea
publisher: Indiana University Press