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Women and Power in Postconflict Africa

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316432491
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Women and Power in Postconflict Africa written by Aili Mari Tripp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains an unexpected consequence of the decrease in conflict in Africa after the 1990s. Analysis of cross-national data and in-depth comparisons of case studies of Uganda, Liberia and Angola show that post-conflict countries have significantly higher rates of women's political representation in legislatures and government compared with countries that have not undergone major conflict. They have also passed more legislative reforms and made more constitutional changes relating to women's rights. The study explains how and why these patterns emerged, tying these outcomes to the conjuncture of the rise of women's movements, changes in international women's rights norms and, most importantly, gender disruptions that occur during war. This book will help scholars, students, women's rights activists, international donors, policy makers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others better understand some of the circumstances that are most conducive to women's rights reform today and why.

War, Women, and Power

Author : Marie E. Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108246893
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book War, Women, and Power written by Marie E. Berry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights.

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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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies by : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

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.

Women and War

Author : Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 160127064X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and War by : Chantal de Jonge Oudraat

Download or read book Women and War written by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In consideration of UN Resolution 1325 (which called for women's equal participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women exposed to violence during and after conflict), this volume takes stock of the current state of knowledge on women, peace and security issues, including efforts to increase women's participation in post-conflict reconstruction strategies and their protection from wartime sexual violence.

War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment

Author : Josephine Beoku-Betts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786996952
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment written by Josephine Beoku-Betts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringing the war to an end into meaningful political empowerment. This is in marked contrast to other post-conflict countries, which have increased the political participation of women in elected and appointed office, increased the representation of women in leadership positions, and enacted constitutional reforms promoting women's rights. Written by Sierra Leonean and Africanist scholars and experts from a broad range of disciplines, this unique volume analyses the historical and contextual factors influencing women's political, economic and social development in the country. In drawing on a diverse array of case studies – from health to education, refugees to international donors – the contradictions, successes and challenges of women's lives in a post-conflict environment are revealed, making this an essential book for anyone involved in women and development.

Women's Activism in Africa

Author : Balghis Badri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783609109
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Women's Activism in Africa written by Balghis Badri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia women have been at the forefront of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. While some of these movements have been influenced by international feminism and external donors, increasingly it is African women who are shaping the global struggle for women's rights. Bringing together African authors who themselves are part of the activist groups, this collection represents the only comprehensive and up-to-date overview of women's movements in contemporary Africa. Drawing on case studies and fresh empirical material from across the continent, the authors challenge the prevailing assumption that notions of women's rights have trickled down from the global north to the south, showing instead that these movements have been shaped by above all the unique experiences and concerns of the local women involved.

Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

Author : Iris Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521517079
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Women in Twentieth-Century Africa written by Iris Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.

Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa

Author : Naleli Mpho Soledad Morojele
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3847409050
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa written by Naleli Mpho Soledad Morojele and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Triumph and Loss explores the successes, challenges and controversies of women‘s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, the book explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist and personal backgrounds. It situates their stories within historical and contemporary political contexts, illustrating the gendered ways in which women experience politics as citizens and politicians.

Seeking Legitimacy

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842564X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Legitimacy written by Aili Mari Tripp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study based on extensive fieldwork, and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Aili Mari Tripp analyzes why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Women and the War on Boko Haram

Author : Hilary Matfess
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786991489
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Women and the War on Boko Haram written by Hilary Matfess and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram’s campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps more disturbing still, some Nigerian women have chosen to become active supporters of the group, even sacrificing their lives as suicide bombers. These events cannot be understood without first acknowledging the long-running marginalisation of women in Nigerian society. Having conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the region, Hilary Matfess provides a vivid and thought-provoking account of Boko Haram’s impact on the lives of Nigerian women, as well as the wider social and political context that fuels the group’s violence.

Fashioning Postfeminism

Author : Simidele Dosekun
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052099
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Fashioning Postfeminism written by Simidele Dosekun and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world. Simidele Dosekun's interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals—but also constitutes—feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism's collective political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and subjectivity across cultures and class. Intellectually provocative and rich with theory, Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a fascinating performative culture.

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.

Bargaining for Women's Rights

Author : Alice J. Kang
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145294427X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Bargaining for Women's Rights written by Alice J. Kang and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discussion, until now, has been a systematic examination of how civil society groups mobilize to promote women’s rights and how multiple components of the state negotiate such legislation. In Bargaining for Women’s Rights, Alice J. Kang argues that reform is more likely to happen when the struggle arises from within. Focusing on how a law on gender quotas and a United Nations treaty on ending discrimination against women passed in Niger while family law reform and an African Union protocol on women’s rights did not, Kang shows how local women’s associations are uniquely positioned to translate global concepts of democracy and human rights into concrete policy proposals. And yet, drawing on numerous interviews with women’s rights activists as well as Islamists and politicians, she reveals that the former are not the only ones who care about the regulation of gender relations. Providing a solid analytic framework for understanding conflict over women’s rights policies without stereotyping Muslims, Bargaining for Women’s Rights demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Islam does not have a uniformly negative effect on the prospects of such legislation.

Women's Movements in the Global Era

Author : Amrita Basu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997518X
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Women's Movements in the Global Era written by Amrita Basu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a path-breaking study of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women's movements in countries throughout the world. Its focus is on the global South, where women's movements have engaged in complex negotiations with national and international forces. It challenges widely held assumptions about the Western origins and character of local feminisms. The authors locate women's movements within the terrain from which they emerged by exploring their relationships with the state, civil society, and other social movements. This fully revised second edition contains six new chapters by leading scholars of women and gender studies, on both individual countries and on several major regions of the world? Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Maghreb. This balanced coverage enables readers to identify regional patterns and also learn from in-depth case studies. Women's Movements in the Global Era is essential reading for anyone interested in the global scope and implications of feminism.

Women and Power in the Middle East

Author : Suad Joseph
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206908
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Women and Power in the Middle East written by Suad Joseph and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report, the journal of the Middle East Research and Information Project, the essays document empirically the similarities and differences in the gendering of relations of power in twelve countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran. Together they seek to build a framework for understanding broad patterns of gender in the Arab-Islamic world. Challenging questions are addressed throughout. What roles have women played in politics in this region? When and why are women politically mobilized, and which women? Does the nature and impact of their mobilization differ if it is initiated by the state, nationalist movements, revolutionary parties, or spontaneous revolt? And what happens to women when those agents of mobilization win or lose? In investigating these and other issues, the essays take a look at the impact of rapid social change in the Arab-Islamic world. They also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Indeed the essays present rich new approaches to assessing what political participation has meant for women in this region and how emerging national states there have dealt with organized efforts by women to influence the institutions that govern their lives. Designed for courses in Middle East, women's, and cultural studies, Women and Power in the Middle East offers to both students and scholars an excellent introduction to the study of gender in the Arab-Islamic world.

Gender, Violence and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Author : Jane Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317129857
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Violence and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo written by Jane Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the ’worst place in the world’ for women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of rape and sexual violence and almost complete impunity for the perpetrators of such violence. However, despite the high profile media reporting on sexual violence in the DRC, and the widely publicized responses of the international community, there is still very little real analysis of the real situation of women in the country. This book provides such detailed analysis of gender relations in the DRC, and goes beyond the usual explanations of sexual violence as a product of conflict, to examine the complex and socially constructed gender norms and roles which underlie incidences of violence. The book benefits from a comprehensive account of men’s and women’s roles in conflict, violence, peace building and reconstruction, and evaluates the impacts of national and international political responses. In doing so, this book provides valuable new evidence and analysis of the complex and multilayered conflicts in the DRC.

Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

Author : Veronica Fynn Bruey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793638578
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Patriarchy and Gender in Africa written by Veronica Fynn Bruey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies, expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.