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Author : K. K. Prah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000038725796
Author : Wawasi Kitetu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869784000
This sixth volume of the CODESRIA Gender Series is a collection of discourses, perspectives, practices and policies on the role of the female gender in science and technology, particularly in the African context. Although widely advocated as the indisputable foundation for political and economic power in the modern world, science and technology remains marked by various layers and dimensions of gender inequality that work to the disadvantage of girls and women. Despite the fact that a lot of awareness has been created, and gender issues are now more readily acknowledged by various development initiatives in Africa, participation in science and technology still remains a hurdle as far as girls and women are concerned. A common theme that runs through the book is how feminine identities, ideologies of domesticity and gender stereotypes, and the inadequacy or lack of clear policies facilitate the invisibility of women in science and technology. This notwithstanding, women have never ceased devising clever and ingenious ways that would enable them to master nature, from the margins. The book provides a window onto the current state of female participation in science and technology in Africa, along with an analysis of the historical backgrounds, current educational and professional contexts, and prospects for the future. While it is evident that more research needs to be done, with more groups in different regions, this volume brings together a rich and inspiring collection of qualitative insights on gender, science and technology in Africa. The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African social science research with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for emerging new talents to flower.
Author : Ineke Buskens,Anne Webb
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848131927
Based on the outcome of an extensive research project, this book features chapters based on original primary field research undertaken by academics & activists who have investigated situations within their own communities & countries.
Author : Patricia Stamp,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780889365384
Technology, Gender and Power in Africa
Author : Doctor Ineke Buskens,Doctor Anne Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848131934
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world, but what tangible benefits has it bought, when issues of social inclusion and exclusion, particularly in the developing world, remain at large? In addition, the gender digital divide is growing in the developing world, particularly in Africa - so what does ICT mean to African women? African Women and ICTs explores the ways in which women in Africa utilize ICTs to facilitate their empowerment; whether through the mobile village phone business, through internet use, or through new career and ICT employment opportunities. Based on the outcome of a extensive research project, this timely books features chapters based on original primary field research undertaken by academics and activists who have investigated situations within their own communities and countries. The discussion includes such issues as the notion of ICTs for empowerment and as agents of change, ICTs in the fight against gender-based violence, and how ICTs could be used to re-conceptualize public and private spaces. ICT policy is currently being made and implemented all over Africa, but the authors argue that this is happening mostly in the absence of clear knowledge about the ways gender inequality and ICTs are impacting each other and that by becoming alert to a gender dimension in ICT developments at an early stage of the information revolution, we may be able to prevent greater scaled undesirable effects in the future.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Communication and technology
ISBN : 9780889369030
Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa
Author : Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Gender identity in education
ISBN : 194353327X
"Gender, Culture and Development in Africa interrogates ways in which gender, culture, and development in the African context reinforce, shape, and reshape one another. In four parts, comprising fifty chapters, the book provides stimulating debates and constructive engagements about the enactment of gender and power relations within the African context and its implications for development outcomes. The engaging and carefully organised chapters furnish the readers with a sumptuous "buffet" of narratives, pedagogical dialogues and critical discourses on African women and men in their varied cultural, political, economic and social contexts. The multidisciplinary approach traversing literary studies, education, political science, religious studies, linguistics, history, economics, and law, amongst others, makes the book relevant to scholars of gender and African studies across these disciplines. Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa is a Professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literatures in the Department of Languages and Literary Studies, Babcock University, Nigeria. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Babcock University, Nigeria"--Amazon.com
Author : K. K. Prah
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865436304
A powerful collection of sketches, reviews, and papers focusing on issues related to African emancipation. This volume touches on many crucial themes such as Black Consciousness as a reference point of Pan-Africanism and the relationship between race and class, colour as an instrument of African oppression and exploitation, the myth of race and colour and the psychological syndrome of self-hatred that has been transferred from one generation to the next. The means by which African emancipation both on the continent and the Diaspora is to be approached are also examined.
Author : Kurebwa, Jeffrey
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799828174
One of the most significant dimensions of gender studies is that it is political. It raises questions about power in society and how and why power is differentially distributed between different genders. It asks questions about who has power over whom, in which situations, how power is exercised, and how it is, and can be, challenged. Different theories and perspectives within gender studies have different approaches to these questions and look for answers in different social processes. Many debates are on-going, as new data is revealed and new theories are put forth. Understanding Gender in the African Context is a scholarly reference that explores the complexities of the ideologies and social patterns that contribute to the field of gender studies. Featuring a range of topics such as human rights, feminism, and social media, this book is ideal for policymakers, sociologists, social scientists, civil society organizations, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students.
Author : Mary Frank Fox,Deborah G. Johnson,Sue V. Rosser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780252073366
An interdisciplinary investigation of the co-creation of gender and technology Each of the ten chapters in Women, Gender, and Technology explores a different aspect of how gender and technology work--and are at work--in particular domains, including film narratives, reproductive technologies, information technology, and the profession of engineering. The volume's contributors include representatives of over half a dozen different disciplines, and each provides a novel perspective on the foundational idea that gender and technology co-create one another. Together, their articles provide a window on to the rich and complex issues that arise in the attempt to understand the relationship between these profoundly intertwined notions.
Author : Jamaine Abidogun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351668996
Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender balanced and indigenous centered learning experience. The book argues for the integration of African indigenous science into the secondary school curriculum as a way to strengthen students’ science comprehension by affirming their society’s science contributions, making clear connections between Indigenous and Western science, and also as a way to promote female representation in the sciences. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of science education, African education, and indigenous knowledge.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015069035031
This publication examines the pressing needs to increase women's participation in S & T careers and enable the sex-disaggregated data collection that is needed for research and to raise public awareness of gender issues. Data and analysis provided by the UIS highlight the need for reinforced efforts at the national and international levels.--Publisher's description.
Author : Caroline Wamala Larsson,Laura Stark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351708135
Mobile phones are widely viewed as the information and communication technology that holds the most promise for bridging global digital divides. Gendered Power and Mobile Technology uses empirical research to focus on changing intersections between technology, gender and other categories of social and cultural power difference (such as age, race, class, and ethnicity) in the use of mobile communication technologies. Asking how these intersections can inform development discourse, practice, and research, this volume seeks to rectify the lack of attention to the Global South, calling for more sensitivity to the contexts and consequences of mobile phone use. Indeed, drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book engages with the intersectionality paradigm to tease out the complexities of using mobile technologies for development purposes. Gendered Power and Mobile Technology will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as media studies, development studies, gender and technology, feminist technoscience, anthropology, and sociology.
Author : Molara Ogundipe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UOM:39015073945514
Author : Shi- xu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003849124
In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication—cultural discourses—by experts from around the world. A culturalist programme in communication studies (CS), cultural discourse studies (CDS), as represented in this handbook, is a new current of thought in human and social science and a form of academic activism, but above all, it is a fresh paradigm of research committed to enhancing cultural harmony and prosperity on the one hand and facilitating intellectual plurality and innovation on the other hand. This handbook is the first of its kind; it is concerned with the identities of, and interactions between, the world’s diverse cultural communities through locally-grounded and globally-minded, culturally conscious and critical approaches to their communicative practice. Contributors apply such insights, precepts and techniques, not merely to discover and describe past and present communication, but also to design and guide future communication. This handbook is ideal for scholars and students interested in cultural aspects and issues of communication/discourse, as well as researchers of other fields looking to apply cultural discourse methods to their own projects.