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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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Book Synopsis Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by : Veronica Fynn Bruey

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.

Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

Author : Egodi Uchendu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793642052
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by : Egodi Uchendu

Download or read book Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa written by Egodi Uchendu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa.

Women, Work, and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Fariba Solati
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319515772
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Work, and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa by : Fariba Solati

Download or read book Women, Work, and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa written by Fariba Solati and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book explains that the primary reason for the low rate of female labor force participation is the strong institutions of patriarchy in the region. Using multiple proxies for patriarchy, this book quantifies the multi-dimensional concept of patriarchy in order to measure it across sixty developing countries over thirty years. The findings show that Middle Eastern and North African countries have higher levels of patriarchy with regards to women’s participation in public spheres compared with the rest of the world. Although the rate of formal female labor force participation is low, women across the region contribute greatly to the financial wellbeing of their families and communities. By defining a woman’s place as in the home, patriarchy has made women’s economic activities invisible to official labor statistics since it has caused many women to work in the informal sector of the economy or work as unpaid workers, thus creating an illusion that women in the region are not economically active. While religion has often legitimized patriarchy, oil income has made it affordable for many countries in the region.

Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy

Author : April A. Gordon
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555876296
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (762 download)

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Book Synopsis Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy by : April A. Gordon

Download or read book Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy written by April A. Gordon and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon analyzes the interplay between capitalism, development and the status of African women. Drawing on the work of both African and Western researchers, she shows that capitalist development projects have mainly benefited a small stratum of African elites and proposes concrete strategies for making it more equitable for women.

The Promise of Patriarchy

Author : Ula Yvette Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633949
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis The Promise of Patriarchy by : Ula Yvette Taylor

Download or read book The Promise of Patriarchy written by Ula Yvette Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.

We are an African People

Author : Russell John Rickford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199861471
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book We are an African People written by Russell John Rickford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of black independent schools as the forge for black nationalism and a vanguard for black sovereignty in the 1960s and 70s.

Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies

Author : Martha Donkor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793628459
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies by : Martha Donkor

Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies written by Martha Donkor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women’s perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier, Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men. Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the diverse cultures in which they live.

Gender and Islam in Africa

Author : Margot Badran
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804774819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Islam in Africa by : Margot Badran

Download or read book Gender and Islam in Africa written by Margot Badran and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Islam in Africa examines ways in which women in Africa are interpreting traditional Islamic concepts in order to empower themselves and their societies. African women, it argues, have promoted the ideals and practices of equality, human rights, and democracy within the framework of Islamic thought, challenging conventional conceptualizations of the religion as gender-constricted and patriarchal. The contributors come from the fields of history, anthropology, linguistics, gender studies, religious studies, and law. Their depictions of African women's interpreting and reinterpreting of Islam go back into the nineteenth century and up to today, including analyses of how cultural media such as popular song and film can communicate new gender roles in terms of sexuality and direct examinations of religious and religiously based family law and efforts to reform them.

African Feminism

Author : Gwendolyn Mikell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200772
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis African Feminism by : Gwendolyn Mikell

Download or read book African Feminism written by Gwendolyn Mikell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with "bread, butter, and power" issues. Contributors present case studies of ten African states, demonstrating that—as they fight for access to land, for the right to own property, for control of food distribution, for living wages and safe working conditions, for health care, and for election reform—African women are creating a powerful and specifically African feminism.

Women's Social and Legal Issues in African Current Affairs

Author : Victoria M. Time
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538797
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Social and Legal Issues in African Current Affairs by : Victoria M. Time

Download or read book Women's Social and Legal Issues in African Current Affairs written by Victoria M. Time and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the difficulties that beset African women and inhibit them from excelling in many walks of life in the twenty-first century. Asymmetrical relations in society position women in subjugated and marginalized roles. This is caused by customary practices that have left women in vulnerable and subsidiary positions, as well as statutory provisions that fester this process. Despite its richness in raw materials and minerals, Africa remains slow to grow when compared to other continents. The economies of most African countries is severely anemic: corruption is rife, poor governance is systemic, and wars, conflicts, famine and diseases abound. Stalled economies disproportionately affects women; for example, as nurturers, women have the extra responsibility of taking care of children and members of the extended family. In times of want, women are more likely to give up the little they have so that their children and others may survive. This book shows the various social and legal obstacles that stall women’s upward mobility and offers recommendations on how these issues can be resolved.

Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781793618023
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa written by Chammah J. Kaunda and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa argues that religion and spirituality continue to occupy a central position in the relational and social experiences of many Africans and, as such, it is within a religio-spiritual framework that ideas and practices related to most African women and their wellbeing are interpreted and formulated.

Gender Terrains in African Cinema

Author : Dipio, Dominica
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1920033386
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender Terrains in African Cinema by : Dipio, Dominica

Download or read book Gender Terrains in African Cinema written by Dipio, Dominica and published by NISC (Pty) Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories of female characters – the girl child, the young woman and the elderly woman and their male counterparts. Although gender remains the focal point in this lucid and fascinating text, Dipio engages attention in her discussion of African feminism in relation to Western feminism. With its broad appeal to African humanities, Gender Terrains in African Cinemastands as a unique and radical contribution to the field of (African) film studies, which until now, has suffered from a paucity of scholarship.

Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender

Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000158772
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender written by Florence Stratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions of African women, have up until now been largely ignored by the critics. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender is the first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective. In this first radical and exciting work Florence Stratton outlines the features of an emerging female tradition in African fiction. A chapter is dedicated to each to the works of four women writers: Grace Ogot, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Mariama Ba. In addition she provides challenging new readings of canonical male authors such as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo'o and Wole Soyinka. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender thus provides the first truly comprehensive definition of the current literary tradition in Africa.

Gender Epistemologies in Africa

Author : O. Oyewumi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230116272
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Gender Epistemologies in Africa written by O. Oyewumi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.

Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature

Author : Chielozona Eze
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319409220
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature by : Chielozona Eze

Download or read book Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature written by Chielozona Eze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference, rather than the postcolonial ideology of empire, contemporaryAfrican women writers demand fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys imaginative shifts in perspective with women experiencing unfairness, injustice, or oppression because of their gender, Chielozona Eze argues that by considering feminist empathy, discussions open up about how this literature directly addresses the systems that put them in disadvantaged positions. This book, therefore, engages a new ethical and human rights awareness in African literary and cultural discourses, highlighting the openness to reality that is compatible with African multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and increasingly cosmopolitan communities.

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.

Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa

Author : Marsha R. Robinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 073916855X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa written by Marsha R. Robinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa will appeal to professionals and students of imperial and world history, international security and conflict resolution, development, globalization, and gender studies. The author argues that terrorism, piracy, acts of sabotage, and austerity budget mass protests will continue in Africa, Asia and the West until ordinary people around the world have positive answers to the Primordial Question: Will my family eat today and sleep peacefully through the night?