Download or read book Soci t s africaines en mutation du c t des femmes written by Awa Thiam and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Femmes d Afrique dans une soci t en mutation written by Philippe Denis and published by Editions Academia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jusqu'aux dernières années du vingtième siècle, la dimension de genre était largement méconnue dans les travaux d'histoire africaine. En mars 2003, la Chaire d'études africaines de l'Université catholique de Louvain organisa un colloque pour faire connaître les fruits des recherches récentes sur l'histoire des femmes en Afrique dans les sociétés traditionnelles, coloniales et post-coloniales. Ce sont résultats de ce colloque que ce livre présente au public. Des thèmes que l'éducation, les migrations et les religions y sont abordés en référence à l'Afrique du Sud, au Cameroun, à la République démocratique Congo, à la Guinée et au Kenya. Femmes d'Afrique dans une société en mutation : ce titre évoque la diversité des situations rencontrées par les femmes en Afrique. Les études de cas présentées dans ce volume illustrent comment les mutations socio-économiques, culturelles et anthropologiques des sociétés africaines ont marqué les conditions de vie féminines. Elles ont aussi influencé les modes de conscience des femmes et la manière dont elles se représentent leur rôle social. Même si le terme - qui est d'origine occidentale - fait problème, il est sans doute légitime de parler de l'émergence d'un féminisme africain.

Download or read book Les Africaines written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by La Découverte. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De la veille de la colonisation à nos jours, la condition féminine en Afrique subsaharienne a connu d'extraordinaires mutations, à des rythmes différents d'un point à l'autre du continent, du Sénégal à l'Afrique du Sud et du Kénya au Congo. Dans ce monde où modes de vie anciens et nouveaux se côtoient et se mêlent, la vie, le rôle et les activités des femmes offrent un éventail de situations extrêmement diversifiées. En un siècle, tout y a changé, à commencer par le déplacement, à un rythme accéléré, des femmes de la campagne vers les villes. De leurs tâches quotidiennes à leurs activités économiques, de leur éducation à leur sexualité, de leur influence sociale à leur rôle politique, de leur affectivité à leur créativité, tout contribue à faire des femmes africaines un des moteurs de leurs sociétés. Connaître leur histoire, c'est comprendre le rôle essentiel qu'elles ont joué dans l'histoire du continent, mais aussi, par l'espoir dont elles sont porteuses, les possibilités d'évolution des sociétés africaines. Publiée initialement en 1994, cette vaste fresque historique et sociale est signée de l'une des meilleures spécialistes de l'histoire du continent.

Download or read book Les Africaines written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De la veille de la colonisation à nos jours, la condition féminine en Afrique noire a connu d'extraordinaires mutations, à des rythmes différents d'un point à l'autre du continent, du Sénégal à l'Afrique du Sud et du Kénya au Congo. Dans ce monde où modes de vie anciens et nouveaux se côtoient et se mêlent, la vie, le rôle et les activités des femmes offrent un éventail de situations extrêmement diversifiées. En un siècle, tout y a changé, à commencer par le déplacement, à un rythme accéléré, des femmes de la campagne vers les villes. De leurs tâches quotidiennes à leurs activités économiques, de leur éducation à leur sexualité, de leur influence sociale à leur rôle politique, de leur affectivité à leur créativité, tout contribue à faire des femmes africaines un des moteurs de leurs sociétés. Connaître leur histoire, c'est comprendre le rôle essentiel qu'elles ont joué dans l'histoire du continent, mais aussi, par l'espoir dont elles sont porteuses, les possibilités d'évolution des sociétés africaines. Publiée initialement aux éditions Desjonquères en 1994, cette vaste fresque historique et sociale - actualisée par une postface inédite de l'auteure - est signée de l'une des meilleures spécialistes de l'histoire du continent. Pages de début Avant-propos à l'édition de 2013. L'énergie peu commune des Africaines Introduction Première partie. Femmes du XIXe siècle I. Les paysannes II. Les femmes esclaves III. Les femmes et le commerce à la veille de la colonisation IV. Les femmes de pouvoir V. Identité et culture féminines Deuxième partie. De la campagne à la ville VI. Femmes rurales et colonisation VII. Femmes et migrations urbaines Troisième partie. Les femmes en ville. De la colonisation à l'indépendance VIII. La condition urbaine IX. Les femmes et le commerce X. La domesticité XI. La prostitution : de la femme libre au Sida XII. Les femmes et l'usine XIII. Femmes et pauvreté : l'avenir de l'informel féminin Quatrième partie. Les femmes et la modernité XIV. Les femmes et l'école XV. Femmes et politique : résistance et action en Afrique de l'Ouest XVI. Femmes et politique : le retard zaïrois XVII. Femmes et politique : les guerres de libération nationale XVIII. Sexualité et émancipation Conclusion : l'avenir Postface à l'édition de 2013 Bibliographie Bibliographiecomplémentaire Index Pages de fin.

Download or read book African women Pan Africanism and African renaissance written by Serbin, Sylvia and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Femme et l instabilit conjugale dans une soci t africaine en mutation written by Marie-José Taurisson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black Skin White Masks written by Frantz Fanon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.

Download or read book Culture and Imperialism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Download or read book In Her Lifetime written by Committee to Study Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relative lack of information on determinants of disease, disability, and death at major stages of a woman's lifespan and the excess morbidity and premature mortality that this engenders has important adverse social and economic ramifications, not only for Sub-Saharan Africa, but also for other regions of the world as well. Women bear much of the weight of world production in both traditional and modern industries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, women contribute approximately 60 to 80 percent of agricultural labor. Worldwide, it is estimated that women are the sole supporters in 18 to 30 percent of all families, and that their financial contribution in the remainder of families is substantial and often crucial. This book provides a solid documentary base that can be used to develop an agenda to guide research and health policy formulation on female health--both for Sub-Saharan Africa and for other regions of the developing world. This book could also help facilitate ongoing, collaboration between African researchers on women's health and their U.S. colleagues. Chapters cover such topics as demographics, nutritional status, obstetric morbidity and mortality, mental health problems, and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.

Download or read book Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century written by Bethwell A. Ogot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography. This fifth volume of the acclaimed series covers the history of the continent from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the close of the eighteenth century in which two themes emerge: first, the continuing internal evolution of the states and cultures of Africa during this period second, the increasing involvement of Africa in external trade--with major but unforeseen consequences for the whole world. In North Africa, we see the Ottomans conquer Egypt. South of the Sahara, some of the larger, older states collapse, and new power bases emerge. Traditional religions continue to coexist with both Christianity (suffering setbacks) and Islam (in the ascendancy). Along the coast, particularly of West Africa, Europeans establish a trading network which, with the development of New World plantation agriculture, becomes the focus of the international slave trade. The immediate consequences of this trade for Africa are explored, and it is argued that the long-term global consequences include the foundation of the present world-economy with all its built-in inequalities.

Download or read book When the Moon Waxes Red written by Trinh T. Minh-ha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit. The multiply-hyphenated peoples of color are not simply placed in a duality between two cultural heritages; throughout, Trinh describes the predicament of having to live "a difference that has no name and too many names already." She argues for multicultural revision of knowledge so that a new politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it. By rewriting the always emerging, already distorted place of struggle, such work seeks to "beat the master at his own game."

Download or read book Changing Difference written by Catherine Malabou and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by CAROLYN SHREAD In the post-feminist age the fact that ‘woman' finds herself deprived of her ‘essence' only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: ‘woman' has never been able to define herself in any other way than in terms of the violence done to her. Violence alone confers her being - whether it is domestic and social violence or theoretical violence. The critique of ‘essentialism' (i.e. there is no specifically feminine essence) proposed by both gender theory and deconstruction is just one more twist in the ontological negation of the feminine. Contrary to all expectations, however, this ever more radical hollowing out of woman within intellectual movements supposed to protect her, this assimilation of woman to a ‘being nothing', clears the way for a new beginning. Let us now assume the thought of ‘woman' as an empty but resistant essence, an essence that is resistant precisely because it is empty, a resistance that strikes down the impossibility of its own disappearance once and for all. To ask what remains of woman after the sacrifice of her being is to signal a new era in the feminist struggle, changing the terms of the battle to go beyond both essentialism and anti-essentialism. In this path-breaking work Catherine Malabou begins with philosophy, asking: what is the life of a woman philosopher?

Download or read book Housing Estates in Europe written by Daniel Baldwin Hess and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and metropolitan connectivity? How do housing estates contribute to the urban mosaic of neighborhoods by ethnic and socio-economic status? What types of policies and planning initiatives have been implemented in order to prevent the social downgrading of housing estates? The collection of chapters in this book addresses these questions from a new perspective previously unexplored in scholarly literature. The social aspects of housing estates are thoroughly investigated (including socio-demographic and economic characteristics of current and past inhabitants; ethnicity and segregation patterns; population dynamics; etc.), and the physical composition of housing estates is described in significant detail (including building materials; building form; architectural and landscape design; built environment characteristics; etc.). This book is timely because the recent global economic crisis and Europe’s immigration crisis demand a thorough investigation of the role large housing estates play in poverty and ethnic concentration. Through case studies of housing estates in 14 European centers, the book also identifies policy measures that have been used to address challenges in housing estates throughout Europe.

Download or read book The Sex Thieves written by Julien Bonhomme and published by Hau. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these accusations can have dramatic outcomes: the "sex thieves" are often targeted by large crowds and publicly lynched. Moreover, such rumors are an extremely widespread practice, having affected almost half of the African continent since the 1970s. In this book, Bonhomme examines the story of the "penis snatcher," asking larger questions about how to account for such a phenomenon--unique in its spatial and temporal scale--without falling prey to the cliché of Africa as an exotic other. Bonhomme argues that the public belief in sex thieves cannot be considered a superstition or form of mass hysteria. Rather, he brings to light multiple factors that explain the rumor's success and shows how the cultural dynamic can operate on a vast scale. Analyzing the rumor on both transnational and local levels, he demonstrates how it arises from the ambiguities and dangers of anonymity, and thus that it reveals an occult flipside to everyday social interaction. Altogether, this book provides both richly ethnographic and theoretical understandings of urban sociality and the dynamics of human communication in contemporary Africa and beyond.

Download or read book Africa Since 1935 written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.

Download or read book Terra 2008 written by Leslie Rainer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.

Download or read book World Malaria Report 2019 written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Malaria Report 2019 provides a comprehensive update on global and regional malaria data and trends. The report tracks investments in malaria programs and research as well as progress across all intervention areas: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, elimination, and surveillance. It also includes dedicated chapters on the consequences of malaria on maternal infant and child health the "High Burden to High Impact" approach as well as biological threats to the fight against malaria. The 2019 report is based on information received from more than 80 countries and areas with ongoing malaria transmission. This information is supplemented by data from national household surveys and databases held by other organizations.