Download or read book African Women s Studies 1980 2001 written by Desiree Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Women s Studies 1980 2001 written by Desiree Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book African Women written by Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last century, the social and economic roles played by African women have evolved dramatically. Long confined to home and field, overlooked by their menfolk and missionaries alike, African women worked, thought, dreamed, and struggled. They migrated to the cities, invented new jobs, and activated the so-called informal economy to become Africa's economic and social focal point. As a result, despite their lack of education and relatively low status, women are now Africa's best hope for the future. This sweeping and innovative book is the first to reconstruct the full history of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the lot of African women from the eve of the colonial period to the present, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch explores the stages and forms of women's collective roles as well as their individual emancipation through revolts, urban migrations, economic impacts, social claims, political strength, and creativity. Comparing case studies drawn from throughout the region, she sheds light on issues ranging from gender to economy, politics, society, and culture. Utilizing an impressive array of sources, she highlights broad general patterns without overlooking crucial local variations. With its breadth of coverage and clear analysis of complex questions, this book is destined to become a standard text for scholars and students alike.
Download or read book Women in Twentieth Century Africa written by Iris Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent paradox in the conflicting images of African women - as singularly oppressed and dominated by men, but also as strong, resourceful, and willing to challenge governments and local traditions to protect themselves and their families. Understanding the tension between women's power and their oppression, between their strength and their vulnerability, offers a new lens for understanding the relationship between the state and society in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Women s Studies and Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990s written by Amina Mama and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nigerian woman scholar addresses three main areas of literature in gender and women's studies, a discipline which has become a vast field of research, teaching and activism in Africa and beyond. She situates African women's studies in the context ofinternational feminism, regional political and institutional conditions. The study addresses recent publications in the general field of state and politics, from precolonial times to the present; reviews a range of material grouped under the heading of cultural studies; and considers the historical and contempoary literature on all aspects of women's involvement in various sphers of work and the economy. Finally, the author questions the relationship between women's studies and the women's movement in Africa.
Download or read book Africana Womanism written by Clenora Hudson (Weems) and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in African American Studies and Gender Studies. Sixth edition will feature a new chapter discussing Angie Thomas' The Hate You Give. Outlines a novel, non-western notion of 'womanism' rather than 'feminism'.
Download or read book From Conference to Conference written by Olufunke A. Oke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Gender Studies written by Oyeronke Oyewumi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic from the last 25 years, these essays discuss gender in Africa from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Download or read book The World of the African Woman written by John E. Eberegbulam Njoku and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transnational Transgressions written by M. Bahati Kuumba and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ijaw and Itsekiri women in Nigeria's coastal Delta State occupied five oil facilities owned by Chevron-Texaco in July, 2002, demanding that this transnational corporation contribute to the community from which it has exploited resources for decades, they joined this tributary of African women's struggle and transformative resistance. After confining company employees at the plant for days and confronting management around their devastating economic and environmental activities, they won compromises and reforms. More importantly, these women were simultaneously confronting and contesting neocolonial economic relations, political subjugation and multiple patriarchal structures. Their actions were reminiscent of the revolt of their own Nigerian foremothers, in 1929, against the British government in what became known as the Aba revolt. Women of African descent throughout the African continent and in the diaspora are linked through their legacied and contemporary expressions of struggle and resistance against multiple forces of oppression. From the "Cape to Cairo" and beyond, African women's activism has been significant in the pursuit of social transformation and change on multiple levels-personal, local, regional, national and international sites. From their particular race/class/gender standpoints, African women have played transformative roles in society as activists at multiple sites simultaneously and on the personal, community, national, and transnational levels. This often submerged and varied militancy forged by African women in diverse contexts and social locations forms the foundation of this collection of essays. The original essays in the volume emphasize the diverse, yet interconnected, expressions of African and African diasporan women's agency from both scholarly and activist standpoints. The collection charts new ground by combining and building upon scholarship on gendered globalization, transnational social movements, and African/African diasporan women's studies and acknowledges a common context of struggle calling for the formation of strategic solidarities between African women to forge social change and transformation on multiple levels.
Download or read book Inter group Relations written by Kopano Ratele and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the undoing of the racist, apartheid government, this study critically examines the social and psychological issues that continue to trouble South Africans. Topical concerns include language barriers, homelessness, stereotyping and racism, HIV/AIDS, social influence and dominance, as well as different ways of understanding intergroup conflict and cooperation.
Download or read book Working Papers Series No L African Women in Politics a History of Transformation written by University of Western Ontario. Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book What Women Do in Wartime written by Meredeth Turshen and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to describe and analyze the experience of women in African civil wars. A mixture of reportage, testimony and scholarship, the book includes contributions from women in Chad, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. The political context of these conflicts is outlined in an introduction to each chapter. The book profiles women's responses to war, as combatants as well as victims, and describes the groups women organize in the aftermath. Examining rape and other forms of gendered political violence in African civil wars, this extraordinary volume is also about women taking action for change. It is set to become required reading for students and academics of women's, peace and African studies.
