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Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0864860900
Author : Ruth E. Meena
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008833134
This book is a result of concerns and views expressed by participants at a Gender Planning Workshop which was organised by the SAPES Gender Project in July 1991. The contributions in this collection are essentially posing issues and questions which have not been handled by mainstream scholarship. The authors are challenging women and men to liberate mainstream scholarship from its male biases which limit our understanding of socio-economic and political processes which have contributed to the underdevelopment of this region.
Author : Jemimah Njuki,Elizabeth Waithanji,Joyce Lyimo-Macha,Juliet Kariuki,Samuel Mburu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136186219
This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and economic benefits of livestock markets to women, focusing on how types of markets, the types of products and women’s participation in markets influence their access to livestock income. The book further analyses the role of livestock ownership, especially women’s ownership of livestock, in influencing household food security though increasing household dietary diversity and food adequacy. Additional issues addressed include access to resources, information and financial services to enable women more effectively to participate in livestock production and marketing, and some of the factors that influence this access. Practical strategies for increasing women’s market participation and access to information and services are discussed. The book ends with recommendations on how to mainstream gender in livestock research and development if livestock are to serve as a pathway out of poverty for the poor and especially for women.
Author : Patricia McFadden,Jenifer Chiriga
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X006029204
The premise of this book is that African societies cannot move beyond colonial domination in structural and ideological terms without first recognising the deep-seated injustices which they had already constructed as normal in the pre-colonial period. The realisation of this has opened up new possibilities in the formulation of a more inclusive, post-colonial dispensation, especially for women. Scholars from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia contribute papers examining this transition from the gender perspective: Towards an Epistemological and Methological Framework of Development; Violence Against Women in Southern Africa; Mozambique: Women in the Armed Struggle; The Plight of Young People in Souther Africa; and Perspectives on the Beijing Policy Process in SADC.
Author : James Etim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463005586
Africa has witnessed massive changes in the last fifty years – from independence through structural adjustment, rule by military juntas in several countries and to a period now where the focus is on how best to prioritize their needs based on resources, national goals and human potential. There is general agreement that human capital is important in economic growth and development. There is always the need to ensure that resources and human capital are used appropriately to advance development. Gender disparities, whether in treatment, access to resources, resource utilization and the law, may in themselves retard or slow down development. Resources and human potential in all societies include how best to ensure there is no gender disparity and to fully tap the resources inherent in women for personal, social and national development. Beginning with the women’s suffrage movement, there has been the push to encourage gender equality worldwide. The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 embodies the commitment of the international community to implement policies that will enhance the political, social, economic, educational empowerment of women. This book highlights the issues affecting women in Eastern and Southern Africa – what role does custom and patriarchy play in gender disparities in education, access to health, problems in the workplace and family relationships? How have women writers in the last twenty years presented the issues of patriarchy, women’s rights, globalism and women’s holistic development? What are recent developments that have helped improve the situation for some women? These are some of the issues that are covered in this book. The thesis of this book is that there have been policies and strategies developed that have worked to empower women. However, vestiges of sexism, gender disparities in several fields still remain and traditions/customs and patriarchy have aided in still keeping women down.div“/div>
Author : Mary Hames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822034607051
This national gender profile describes South Africa's progress and challenges in achieving women's empowerment and gender equality goals. It measures the South African government's achievements against its stated commitments both within its supreme legislation - the Constitution, its policies, the legislative framework it has put in place, as well as the international agreements it is party to. The publication also assesses the impact of the institutional mechanisms for women's advancement that South Africa has put in place since 1994. The approach in gathering information has been comprehensive. The review is based on statistical data taken from the National Statistical Services to indicate major social trends. It also draws from government departments' reports of programmes implemented since 1994, the outcome of provincial and national "Conversations among Women", which took place between July and August 2003; and the Office on the Status of Women (OSW) Audits (1998, 2002, and 2003) of systems in place to enable gender mainstreaming. Information from South Africa's reports on the implementation of the Beijing Platform For Action (BPFA) as well as the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development was used in compiling this national gender profile.
Author : Colleen Lowe Morna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114900330
Author : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Namibia Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Women in development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122172146
Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253363233
Author : Matebu Tadesse,Abiye Daniel
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : 9789994455065
Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in any area and at all levels. It is a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of women as well as of men an integral part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres, so that women and men benefit equally, and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal of mainstreaming is to achieve gender equality. This work explores the experiences of Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia from Eastern Africa; and Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Swaziland from Southern Africa. All cases show the varied attempts to mainstream gender at national, institutional, and civil society levels, including grassroots experiences.
Author : Deevia Bhana,Shakila Singh,Thabo Msibi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030699888
The book focuses on the ways in which gendered and sexualised systems of power are produced in educational settings that are framed by broader social and cultural processes, both of which shape and are shaped by children and young people as they interact with each other. All these nuanced features of gender and sexuality are vital if we are to understand inequalities and violence, and fundamental to our three-ply yarn approach in this book. Focusing on the South African context, but with international relevance, the authors adopt the metaphor of the three-ply yarn (Jordan-Young, 2010): these being the cross-cutting themes of gender, sexuality and violence. Subsequently, the book illustrates the intimate ties that bind gender and sexuality with the social and cultural dimensions of violence, as experienced in educational settings.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004486416
Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume’s theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender – debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include sexual difference, subjectivities, colonial (and postcolonial) discourses and the politics of representation. Deep hiStories goes beyond the dichotomies which have largely characterized the discussion of women and gender in Africa, and explores alternative models of interpretation such as ‘genealogies of voice’. These ‘genealogies’ transcend the conventional binaries of visibility and invisibility, speaking and silence. Works covering South Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and Zimbabwe, Namibia and Cameroon in the twentieth include: • Colonial readings of Foucault • Ideologies of domesticity • Torture and testimony of slave women • Women as missionary targets • Gender and the public sphere • Race, science and spectacle • Male nursing on mines • Infanticide, insanity and social control • Fertility and the postcolonial state • Literary reconstructions of the past • Gender-blending and code-switching • De/colonizing the queer The collection includes diverse research on the body in Southern Africa for the first time. It brings new subtleties to the ongoing debates on culture, civility and sexuality, dealing centrally with constructions of race and whiteness in history and literature. It is an important resource for teachers and students of gender and colonial studies.
Author : Anna van der Vleuten,Anouka van Eerdewijk,C. Roggeband
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137301451
This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.
Author : Henrietta Moore,Todd Sanders,Bwire Kaare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000324754
Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational gender categories permeate African systems of thought and ritual practices. Thus, the book provides a powerful framework with which to evaluate previous ethnographic material on Africa. In addition, Those Who Play With Fire presents a broad range of new case studies - of hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists and pastoralists - revealing the varied and complex ways in which African ideas and ideals of what it means to be 'male' and 'female' broadly inform and give meaning to a wide range of transformative rituals.
Author : Emily Bridger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847012630
Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.
