Patriarchy And Gender In Africa

Author : Veronica Fynn Bruey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793638571

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Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by Veronica Fynn Bruey Pdf

This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies, expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.

Author : Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793642059

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Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu Pdf

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa.

Author : Sharon B Stichter,Jane Parpart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000313154

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Patriarchy And Class by Sharon B Stichter,Jane Parpart Pdf

This book argues for the applicability of a materialist mode of production analysis to the situation of women in Africa. It briefly reviews some of the intellectual background and current theoretical dilemmas of marxism-feminism.

Author : April A. Gordon
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555876293

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Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy by April A. Gordon Pdf

Gordon analyzes the interplay between capitalism, development and the status of African women. Drawing on the work of both African and Western researchers, she shows that capitalist development projects have mainly benefited a small stratum of African elites and proposes concrete strategies for making it more equitable for women.

Author : Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793642060

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Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu Pdf

This book examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. Using both historical and modern examples, contributors analyze the ways women have been systematically marginalized in African societies...

Author : James Etim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Gwendolyn Mikell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812200775

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African Feminism by Gwendolyn Mikell Pdf

African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with "bread, butter, and power" issues. Contributors present case studies of ten African states, demonstrating that—as they fight for access to land, for the right to own property, for control of food distribution, for living wages and safe working conditions, for health care, and for election reform—African women are creating a powerful and specifically African feminism.

Author : Fariba Solati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319515779

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Women, Work, and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa by Fariba Solati Pdf

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book explains that the primary reason for the low rate of female labor force participation is the strong institutions of patriarchy in the region. Using multiple proxies for patriarchy, this book quantifies the multi-dimensional concept of patriarchy in order to measure it across sixty developing countries over thirty years. The findings show that Middle Eastern and North African countries have higher levels of patriarchy with regards to women’s participation in public spheres compared with the rest of the world. Although the rate of formal female labor force participation is low, women across the region contribute greatly to the financial wellbeing of their families and communities. By defining a woman’s place as in the home, patriarchy has made women’s economic activities invisible to official labor statistics since it has caused many women to work in the informal sector of the economy or work as unpaid workers, thus creating an illusion that women in the region are not economically active. While religion has often legitimized patriarchy, oil income has made it affordable for many countries in the region.

Author : Toyin Falola,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351711210

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Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora by Toyin Falola,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso Pdf

Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together compelling narratives about women, men and gender relations in Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives, with a view to advancing original ways of understanding these subjects. The chapters achieve three things: first, they deliberately target long-held but erroneous notions about patriarchy, power, gender, migration and masculinity in Africa and of the African Diaspora, vigorously contesting these, and debunking them; second, they unearth previously marginalized and little known his/herstories, depicting the dynamics of gender and power in places ranging from Angola to Arabia to America, and in different time periods, decidedly gendering the previously male-dominated discourse; and third, they ultimately aim to re-write the stories of women and gender relations in Africa and in the African Diaspora. As such, this work is an important read for scholars of African history, gender and the African Diaspora. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies, Diaspora Studies, Gender and History.

Author : Ruth E. Meena
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114693976

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Globalization, Feminism, and Power by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome Pdf

Author : Martha Donkor,Amoaba Gooden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793628459

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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies by Martha Donkor,Amoaba Gooden Pdf

Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women’s perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier, Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men. Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the diverse cultures in which they live.

Author : Christine Saidi
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580463270

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Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa by Christine Saidi Pdf

A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period.

Author : Marsha R. Robinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739168554

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Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa by Marsha R. Robinson Pdf

Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa will appeal to professionals and students of imperial and world history, international security and conflict resolution, development, globalization, and gender studies. The author argues that terrorism, piracy, acts of sabotage, and austerity budget mass protests will continue in Africa, Asia and the West until ordinary people around the world have positive answers to the Primordial Question: Will my family eat today and sleep peacefully through the night?

Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Patriarchy
ISBN : OCLC:253007927

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Patriarchy and Economic Development by Valentine M. Moghadam Pdf