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Women and Collective Action in Africa

Author : F. Steady
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403979499
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Women and Collective Action in Africa written by F. Steady and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines women's movements and women's collective action in Africa. Steady begins her examination in pre-colonial times, moving through the colonial period to the present. She looks at the various arenas which collective action has and can influence, comparing the impact on economic growth, education, democratizations, family formation, and women's rights. Steady uses Sierra Leone as the focus of her inquiry, in order for a detailed story to illustrate larger themes, but in every area makes comparisons to different parts of Africa; the case study here guides a larger inquiry. Written as a text, the book carefully explains the theoretical ideas (e.g., all key terms are defined, and then there is a discussion of how they relate to African issues specifically) and the historical knowledge (e.g., all historical events are described, there is no assumption of knowledge of African history) necessary to understand the meaning of current women's groups. What results is a clear and comprehensive treatment of an issue which is increasingly central to understanding changes taking place on the African continent today.

Women’s empowerment through collective action: how can forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference

Author : Bolin, A.
Publisher : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
ISBN 13 : 925132445X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Women’s empowerment through collective action: how can forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference written by Bolin, A. and published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research report explores different organisational structures and social and cultural services from a gender-equality and women’s empowerment perspective. More specifically, it examines how access to social and cultural services can facilitate women’s participation in economic and political life. The producer organisation business model provides advantages in creating job opportunities and access to markets for women, positive spill-over effects in both household and group businesses, and access to social services such as vocational trainings, childcare and maternity leave – all of which support women to participate in the labour market on a more equal footing with men.

Governance for Development in Africa

Author : David Booth
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780325975
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Governance for Development in Africa written by David Booth and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning a number of countries in Africa, Booth and Cammack's path-breaking book offers both an accessible overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative. In doing so, they controversially argue that externally imposed 'good governance' approaches make unrealistic assumptions about the choices leaders and officials are, in practice, able to make. As a result, reform initiatives and assistance programmes supported by donors regularly fail, while ignoring the potential for addressing the causes rather than the symptoms of this situation. In reality, the authors show, anti-developmental behaviours stem from unresolved - yet in principle soluble - collective action problems. Governance for Development in Africa offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the institutional barriers to economic and social progress in Africa, and makes a compelling plea for fresh policy thinking and new ways of envisioning so-called good governance.

Wagadu Volume 6 Journal of International Women's Studies Volume

Author : Lisa Bernstein
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781441518804
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Wagadu Volume 6 Journal of International Women's Studies Volume written by Lisa Bernstein and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Activism for Gender Equality in Africa This volume on Women's Activism for Gender Equality in Africa is a special collaboration between the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) and Wagadu, two open-access journals that address gender issues within a transnational and cross-cultural context. Using interdisciplinary feminist and activist approaches these essays explore individual and collective actions undertaken by African women in cultural, social, economic, historical and political contexts. In revealing the diversity of African women's activism, the underlying issues around which women's social change work develops, and the impact that work has on individuals and communities, this volume has significance for women and men throughout the world.

Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction

Author : Esther Mwangi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207874
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction written by Esther Mwangi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources. Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia examines how these two types of institutions, separately and together, influence quality of life and how they can be strengthened to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor. The product of a global research study by the Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, this book draws on case studies from East Africa and South and Southeast Asia to investigate how collective action and property rights have contributed to poverty reduction. The book extends the analysis of these institutions beyond their frequently studied role in natural resource management by also examining how they can reduce vulnerability to different types of shocks. Essays in the volume identify opportunities and risks present in the institutions of collective action and property rights. For example, property rights to natural resources can offer a variety of advantages, providing individuals and groups not only with benefits and incomes but also with assets that can counter the negative effects of shocks such as drought, and can make collective action easier. The authors also demonstrate that collective action has the potential to reduce poverty if it includes more vulnerable groups such as women, ethnic minorities, and the very poor. Preventing exclusion of these often-marginalized groups and guaranteeing genuinely inclusive collective action might require special rules and policies. Another danger to the poor is the capture of property rights by elites, which can be the result of privatization and decentralization policies; case studies and analysis identify actions to prevent such elite capture.

Women and Leadership in West Africa

Author : F. Steady
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230338128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Women and Leadership in West Africa written by F. Steady and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three have a tradition of organizations that form important power bases for women.

Women in Africa

Author : Nancy Hafkin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080476624X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Women in Africa written by Nancy Hafkin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers-all but one previously unpublished-presents the results of recent field research in the disciplines of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics. The chief emphasis here is on change: on viewing African women as agents of change from the first arrival of Europeans to the present; and on seeking to change the perspective from which African women have been studied in the past. The papers encompass settings as diverse as eighteenth-century Senegal and contemporary Mozambique. Politically and socially, too, the local settings are various, including an Igbo village, the marketplaces of Abidjan and Accra, a development scheme in rural Tanzania, the churches of Freetown, and the streets of Mombasa. The contributors are Iris Berger, James L. Brain, George E. Brooks, Jr., Margaret Jean Hay, Barbara C. Lewis, Leith Mullings, Kamene Okonjo, Claire Robertson, Filomina Chioma Steady, Margaret Strobel, and Judith VanAllen.

Wagadu Volume 6 Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 10:1

Author : Bernstein
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465333398
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Wagadu Volume 6 Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 10:1 written by Bernstein and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Activism for Gender Equality in Africa This volume on Womens Activism for Gender Equality in Africa is a special collaboration between the Journal of International Womens Studies (JIWS) and Wagadu, two open-access journals that address gender issues within a transnational and cross-cultural context. Using interdisciplinary feminist and activist approaches these essays explore individual and collective actions undertaken by African women in cultural, social, economic, historical and political contexts. In revealing the diversity of African womens activism, the underlying issues around which womens social change work develops, and the impact that work has on individuals and communities, this volume has significance for women and men throughout the world.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030280987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies written by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

The Power of Women's Collective Action

Author : Mma Odi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789789122448
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Women's Collective Action written by Mma Odi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, the State, and Development

Author : Sue Ellen M. Charlton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791498794
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Women, the State, and Development written by Sue Ellen M. Charlton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the most current scholarship on states, socioeconomic development, and feminist theory to emerge this decade. Addressed are issues such as the role of state policies and ideologies in defining gender differences, state influence over the boundaries between public and domestic spheres, state control over women's productive and reproductive lives, and the efforts of women to influence state policy. Women, the State, and Development shows that state elites promote male domination as one way of maintaining social order when nation-states are created and strengthened, and that issues defined as male by the sexual division of labor are given priority in state policies that promote security and economic development such as foreign policy, international trade, agricultural development, and resource extraction. It analyzes these policies in terms of their impact on gender relations and also identifies ways in which women have responded.

Young Women Against Apartheid

Author : Emily Bridger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012639
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Young Women Against Apartheid written by Emily Bridger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.

Movers and Shakers

Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004180133
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Movers and Shakers written by Stephen Ellis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of empirical and theoretical studies of social movements in Africa is a corrective to a literature that has largely ignored that continent. It shows that Africa s social movements have distinctive features that are related to its specific history.

African Women's Movements

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521879309
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book African Women's Movements written by Aili Mari Tripp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women burst onto the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world. Women's movements lobbied for constitutional reforms and new legislation to expand women's rights. This book examines the convergence of factors behind these dramatic developments, including the emergence of autonomous women's movements, changes in international and regional norms regarding women's rights and representation, the availability of new resources to advance women's status, and the end of civil conflict. The book focuses on the cases of Cameroon, Uganda, and Mozambique, situating these countries in the broader African context. The authors provide a fascinating analysis of the way in which women are transforming the political landscape in Africa, by bringing to bear their unique perspectives as scholars who have also been parliamentarians, transnational activists, and leaders in these movements.

Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa

Author : Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780326335
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa written by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre. Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.

Voice and Agency

Author : Jeni Klugman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464803609
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Voice and Agency written by Jeni Klugman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels of gender-based violence and discriminatory laws and norms that prevent women from owning property, being educated, and making meaningful decisions about their own lives--such as whether and when to marry or have children. These often violate their most basic rights and are magnified and multiplied by poverty and lack of education. This groundbreaking book distills vast data and hundreds of studies to shed new light on deprivations and constraints facing the voice and agency of women and girls worldwide, and on the associated costs for individuals, families, communities, and global development. The volume presents major new findings about the patterns of constraints and overlapping deprivations and focuses on several areas key to women s empowerment: freedom from violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, ownership of land and housing, and voice and collective action. It highlights promising reforms and interventions from around the world and lays out an urgent agenda for governments, civil society, development agencies, and other stakeholders, including a call for greater investment in data and knowledge to benchmark progress.

Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market

Author : Jorge Saba Arbache
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821380664
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market written by Jorge Saba Arbache and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A copublication of the Agence franðcaise de dâeveloppement and the World Bank."--T.p.