Introduction To Gender Studies In Eastern And Southern Africa

Author : James Etim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463005586

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Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa by James Etim Pdf

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 : Ruth E. Meena
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008833134

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Gender in Southern Africa by Ruth E. Meena Pdf

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 : Matebu Tadesse,Abiye Daniel
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : 9789994455065

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Gender Mainstreaming Experiences from Eastern and Southern Africa by Matebu Tadesse,Abiye Daniel Pdf

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 : Andrea Cornwall,International African Institute
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217407

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Readings in Gender in Africa by Andrea Cornwall,International African Institute Pdf

Readings in Gender in Africa collects the most important critical and theoretical writings on how gender issues have transformed contemporary views of Africa. Scholarship from North America, Europe, and Africa is represented in this comprehensive volume. A synthetic introduction by Andrea Cornwall discusses efforts to include women in research about Africa. The volume not only shows how gender relations have been constructed on the African continent but reflects the changes in approach and inquiry that have been brought about as scholars consider gender identities and difference in their work. Specific themes covered here include the contestation and representation of gender, femininity and masculinity, livelihoods and lifeways, gender and religion, gender and culture, and gender and governance. Readers from across the landscape of African studies will find this an essential sourcebook. Published in association with the International African Institute, London

Author : Patricia McFadden,Jenifer Chiriga
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X006029204

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Gender in Southern Africa by Patricia McFadden,Jenifer Chiriga Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004486416

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Deep hiStories by Anonim Pdf

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 : Samantha Van Schalkwyk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443887571

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A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research by Samantha Van Schalkwyk Pdf

Questions that concern gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of interdisciplinary research within the humanities in recent years. Gender-based violence against women has increased exponentially in South Africa and in other countries on the African continent, particularly those with a history of political conflict. Researchers who explore such gender issues have paid limited attention to the intersection between the social contexts of the researched, the positionality of the researcher and the research product. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to explore new terrains of knowledge production, interrogating the connection between the intellectual project of this kind of research and the process of its production. Some chapters draw on theoretical insights and provide new ways of thinking about the kinds of questions that should be asked when conducting research in the field of gender. Other authors grapple with an acknowledgement of their multiple social positions in the world, the ways in which they experience these ever-shifting boundaries, and how this influences their theoretical and practical work. Some contributions go further, discussing the ways in which the researcher and the researched influence each other, and the link between feminist research and social change. These chapters contribute to an understanding of how social movement activism can be developed. Overall, this book represents an important combination of scholarly insights, and provides multiple reflections about practical aspects of conducting gender research in the African context. The work of the contributors to the volume is situated within a post-structural feminist agenda, and, collectively, the chapters link scholarship and activism in a way that pursues a social change agenda in research on gender and gender-based violence.

Author : Mansah Prah
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789970252343

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Insights Into Gender Equity, Equality and Power Relations in Sub-saharan Africa by Mansah Prah Pdf

Since gender entered the development discourse in the Seventies, African countries have increasingly taken the concept on board in policy and practice. This concern may be due to either one or a combination of the following factors: the ideological positioning of African countries, demands by their donors and development partners, and demands by organised local groups and NGOs. Gender in the development discourse ought to transform power relations between men and women and shift them to social relations that reflect their equal access to productive resources, opportunities and social and material benefits. The result of such actions should be an achievement of comparable status of women and men. This volume, initiated by OSSREA, seeks to examine in more depth, issues regarding the gender-power imbalance in sub-Saharan African countries, with a specific focus on the eastern and southern African regions. The chapters in this book present research that examines and analyses the effectiveness and efficiency of gender mainstreaming policies, strategies and projects developed and implemented by national and international actors. The themes inter-weave with each other although they address gender issues in specific countries and specific contexts. This can be explained by the shared colonial and post-colonial heritage of African countries. It is useful, therefore, to view the structure of the book as a spiral of inter-connected issues that address similar themes, approaching them from different levels. Purely for ease of reading, the contributions have been organised into three parts, with over arching themes that at first glance may seem not to fit well together. A theme that runs through all the chapters is the persistence of patriarchal values and attitudes in Africa and its constraining effect on the achievement of gender equity and equality.

Author : Ingelore Welpe,Britta Thege
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061432582

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The Gender Perspective by Ingelore Welpe,Britta Thege Pdf

The constitutional and legislative framework within the Southern African Development Community provides a positive institutional environment to ensure mainstreaming gender concerns. However, the translation and implementation of the gender perspective is at times lacking. Both agenda setting as an instrument of change management and reorganisation procedures are not used enough in the fields of economy, organisation and health. These three areas are crucial partly due to their interconnectivity and also because of their vital importance to the successful sustainable development of SADC nation. This volume results from the findings of a conference hosted by the Institute of Women and Gender Studies, Kiel, and the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, Pretoria.

Author : Mechthild Reh,Gudrun Ludwar-Ene
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 3825821994

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Gender and Identity in Africa by Mechthild Reh,Gudrun Ludwar-Ene Pdf

Author : Gisela G. Geisler
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9171065156

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Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa by Gisela G. Geisler Pdf

This study looks at womens stuggle in Southern Africa where the last ten years have seen the most pervasive success stories on the African continent.Tracing the history of womens involvement in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, the book analyses post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies employed by womens movements to gain a foothold in politics.

Author : R. Sooryamoorthy,Nene Ernest Khalema
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197608494

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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa by R. Sooryamoorthy,Nene Ernest Khalema Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa presents to a broad readership an accessible, comprehensive, up to date, and topical comparative analysis of sociological thinking in Africa. Sociological discourse about African societies has been challenging and difficult, due to a lack of both comprehensive analyses and holistic sociological evidence that covers Africa from past to present times. This Handbook brings together latest analyses of sociological phenomena from the best scholars working on numerous thematic areas. It provides contributions that locates African sociological thinking in historical context and takes a critical look at its current manifestations across the continent. This collection builds upon an existing body of literature which has demonstrated that while the analysis of African societies has long been an item on the agenda of sociologists worldwide, advances of the decolonial critique made notably by African scholars in Africa enhances the scholarship of the sociology of Africa. Thus, the collection is premised upon the understanding that in order to understand the sociology of Africa as significant intervention, the participation and representation of African ways of knowing and doing is a critical starting point. This Handbook comprises a series of scholarly and interdisciplinary perspectives on current debates over how best to unpack sociological imaginations in African context. The scholarly contributions, therefore, are based on both perspectives illustrating the importance of specificity in sociological phenomenon. The Handbook is arranged in seven parts: Context and Perspectives; Race, Ethnicity, and Religion; Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality; Medical Sociology: Political Economy and Development; Crime and Violence; and The Family and Education. Premised on the importance of African ways of knowing and doing, these chapters offer sociologists, researchers, and students an invaluable starting point for a fuller understanding of African sociology.

Author : Keshia Nicole Abraham
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029442204

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Reflections on Gender Issues in Africa by Keshia Nicole Abraham Pdf

Comprises a collection of five articles on gender in Africa. Provides a continental and regional view of some of the key challenges as they relate to human rights and the law, culture, the arts, identity, politics and everyday living for women in particular but also for all Africans in general, perceived through a gendered lens.

Author : Lyn Wadley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 1868143201

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Our Gendered Past by Lyn Wadley Pdf

Awareness of gender issues in southern African archaeology is relatively new and few publications have attempted to engender the past. This research reveals that changes in gender roles and ideologies have been, and will continue to be, a natural part of the southern African historical process.

Author : H.B. Holmarsdottir,V. Nomlomo,A.I. Farag,Z. Desai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462091375

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Gendered Voices by H.B. Holmarsdottir,V. Nomlomo,A.I. Farag,Z. Desai Pdf

Internationally, there is growing awareness that the target of Education for All by 2015 will not be met unless more strident efforts are made to improve access for marginalized, hard-to-reach children (most often girls). For almost four decades gender equality in education has been one of the key global concerns and as a result various organizations at national and international levels along with governments have initiated programs focusing on achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment and improving girls’ access to education. By focusing on access alone (i.e. gender parity) we may not understand how education can be used to achieve empowerment and influence cultural practices that are gender insensitive. In this volume we attempt to call into question the content of gender equality as simple parity and in doing so we reflect upon the following questions: • Do the global (macro) discourses on gender equality in education lead to a focus on numbers only or to more profound sustainable changes at the national (meso) level and the school (micro) level? • To what extent have national policies been adjusted to reflect the global discourses on gender equality? • Are schools/classrooms (micro) expected to adjust to these global discourses and if so in what ways has this happened? • What are the challenges of providing access to good quality education for girls in both countries? • Is there a dichotomy between the schools/classrooms on the one hand and the community on the other in terms of gender equality/equity? • To what extent is gender equality/equity imposed upon schools and communities and does it take into account the cultural practices in traditional communities? Key words: Gender equality, education, Global vs. local concerns 3 selling points: • The volume highlights that although research has shown how global educational policies homogenize national educational policies and are therefore playing what can be termed a neo-colonial role in identifying pivotal themes and topics in education across the world such as gender equality, literacy and quality education in local contexts, they are often steeped in a Western logic which is not always culturally relevant or conducive. Making global recommendations for education across cultures and places is thus not always unproblematic. • The volume highlights that a push for girls’ schooling must navigate wisely in sensitive terrain where complex contextual aspects must be understood and taken into account. Girls’ attendance and retention in school are important first steps in the struggle for epistemic access, but must be followed by serious deliberations about what kind of school and what kind of knowledge in the schools is appropriate, and about equality and equity. • The volume attempts to understand how the global gender goals in education affect both local policies and local practice and in doing so it attempts to question the simple focus on access only.