Women Empowerment And The Feminist Agenda In Africa

Author : Musingafi, Maxwell Constantine Chando,Hungwe, Chipo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668497234

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Women Empowerment and the Feminist Agenda in Africa by Musingafi, Maxwell Constantine Chando,Hungwe, Chipo Pdf

This book argues that African women's lived experiences are often spoken about authoritatively by people who are not included within this demographic, relegating these women to the role of spectators in their own stories. The dominant narratives of African womanhood, legitimized by intellectual discourse, are neither written by African women nor Africans in general. This book seeks to place feminism in Africa into its historical context by revisiting the experiences, practices, vision, and theories of feminism and gender in Africa. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive introduction to the field and provide a starting point for further and more advanced study of the nexus of feminism, gender, and development in Africa. Women Empowerment and the Feminist Agenda in Africa is designed to initiate post-graduate research and studies in the social sciences for directed and critical inquiry into the nature of feminist and gender politics and power relations in Africa. It is written for researchers, academics, and advanced tertiary studies, although professional gender and feminist organizations, especially those in Africa or focusing on Africa, will also find a wealth of information. The book is recommended for university libraries, post-graduate students and staff, the non-governmental community in Africa, women movement organizations in Africa, independent researchers and academics, and the African community at large.

Author : Musingafi, Maxwell Constantine Chando,Hungwe, Chipo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798369320006

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African Womanhood and the Feminist Agenda by Musingafi, Maxwell Constantine Chando,Hungwe, Chipo Pdf

Within academic circles, there is a longstanding issue concerning the portrayal and understanding of African womanhood. Frequently, these narratives are crafted by outsiders, predominantly Western scholars, often distorting the lived experiences and unique perspectives of African women. This has led to a skewed and sometimes negative perception of African women, reinforcing stereotypes, and sidelining their voices in critical discussions. Moreover, this misrepresentation has real-world consequences, as it impacts social justice initiatives and development projects that rely on misguided narratives rather than the authentic voices of African women. African Womanhood and the Feminist Agenda emerges as an essential solution to the misrepresentation of African women. This comprehensive and meticulously researched book offers an alternative narrative, one that is rooted in African perspectives and experiences. It addresses the historical, cultural, and political dimensions of African womanhood, providing a rich and nuanced understanding of this multifaceted topic.

Author : E. Swai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230106345

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Beyond Women’s Empowerment in Africa by E. Swai Pdf

This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge.

Author : F. Steady
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403979490

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Women and Collective Action in Africa by F. Steady Pdf

This book examines women's movements and women's collective action in Africa. Steady begins her examination in pre-colonial times, moving through the colonial period to the present. She looks at the various arenas which collective action has and can influence, comparing the impact on economic growth, education, democratizations, family formation, and women's rights. Steady uses Sierra Leone as the focus of her inquiry, in order for a detailed story to illustrate larger themes, but in every area makes comparisons to different parts of Africa; the case study here guides a larger inquiry. Written as a text, the book carefully explains the theoretical ideas (e.g., all key terms are defined, and then there is a discussion of how they relate to African issues specifically) and the historical knowledge (e.g., all historical events are described, there is no assumption of knowledge of African history) necessary to understand the meaning of current women's groups. What results is a clear and comprehensive treatment of an issue which is increasingly central to understanding changes taking place on the African continent today.

Author : Akosua Adomako Ampofo,Josephine Beoku-Betts
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800711723

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Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge by Akosua Adomako Ampofo,Josephine Beoku-Betts Pdf

In the global South there is potential for politics to marginalize the diverse perspectives of subaltern communities. Exploring ongoing and new feminist dialogues in the global South, this book examines the ways in which dominant epistemologies are challenged, unique identities formed, and the implications for the global feminist agenda.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp,Isabel Casimiro,Joy Kwesiga,Alice Mungwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521704901

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African Women's Movements by Aili Mari Tripp,Isabel Casimiro,Joy Kwesiga,Alice Mungwa Pdf

Women burst onto the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world. Women's movements lobbied for constitutional reforms and new legislation to expand women's rights. This book examines the convergence of factors behind these dramatic developments, including the emergence of autonomous women's movements, changes in international and regional norms regarding women's rights and representation, the availability of new resources to advance women's status, and the end of civil conflict. The book focuses on the cases of Cameroon, Uganda, and Mozambique, situating these countries in the broader African context. The authors provide a fascinating analysis of the way in which women are transforming the political landscape in Africa, by bringing to bear their unique perspectives as scholars who have also been parliamentarians, transnational activists, and leaders in these movements.

Author : Balghis Badri,Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783609109

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Women's Activism in Africa by Balghis Badri,Aili Mari Tripp Pdf

Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia women have been at the forefront of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. While some of these movements have been influenced by international feminism and external donors, increasingly it is African women who are shaping the global struggle for women's rights. Bringing together African authors who themselves are part of the activist groups, this collection represents the only comprehensive and up-to-date overview of women's movements in contemporary Africa. Drawing on case studies and fresh empirical material from across the continent, the authors challenge the prevailing assumption that notions of women's rights have trickled down from the global north to the south, showing instead that these movements have been shaped by above all the unique experiences and concerns of the local women involved.

Author : Gwendolyn Mikell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081221580X

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African Feminism by Gwendolyn Mikell Pdf

"This book is the best thing I've seen on the question--not only of 'feminism' in its African articulation but also, more generally, on the question of how feminism emerges and what it means to those who espouse it."--Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Author : Sohela Nazneen,Maheen Sultan
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780329703

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Voicing Demands by Sohela Nazneen,Maheen Sultan Pdf

Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women’s empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women’s political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women’s voice under different contexts. Bringing together the reflections and experiences of feminist researchers and activists in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, this unique volume explores how various global trends, such as the development of transnational linkages, the rise of conservative forces, the NGOization of feminist movements, and an increase in the power of donors, have created opportunities and challenges for feminist voice and activism.

Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UVA:X004222451

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Sisterhood, Feminisms, and Power by Obioma Nnaemeka Pdf

This volume, which gathers prominent scholars, feminists, womanists, and creative writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, engages with candor and vigor issues and conflicts in feminism and black women studies - feminism and womanism debates, sisterhood and power struggles, research and documentation questions, elite and grassroots women relationship, urban and rural dichotomy, African and the African Diaspora relationship. Focusing on the pluralism of feminisms, these essays address the conflict between indigenous African feminisms and the radicalism of variants of Western feminism with their emphasis on sexuality and seeming oppositions to motherhood. They collectively argue that the African environment specifically should provide the context for any meaningful analysis of feminisms on the continent. The volume weaves theoretical questions, personal and collective engagements into a complex tapestry that spans Africa and the African Diaspora - from women organizing for change in South Africa and women's insurgency against colonialism in Nigeria to the problems of doing research on women in Uganda and building of a sisterhood in Memphis, Tennessee.

Author : Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114693976

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Globalization, Feminism, and Power by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome Pdf

Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCSC:32106017915585

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African Women and Feminism by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí Pdf

Author : Jane Stein
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015040596168

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Empowerment and Women's Health by Jane Stein Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of the links between women's empowerment and health, this work looks at what determines success in the fight for better conditions, the redistribution of power, and control of resources. Linking international development policies with women's situations, the theories of women's health with the lives of individuals, the author reveals the complex connections, associations, and interactions in the web of factors relevant to health. This study should be of value to anyone interested in health care issues, and states the case for an international feminist agenda attentive to local cultural idioms.

Author : Marilyn Porter,Ellen R. Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X006118228

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Feminists Doing Development by Marilyn Porter,Ellen R. Judd Pdf

Has feminism transformed development studies? What happens to feminist theory and practice within the development industry? Each contributor to this volume seeks to answer these questions, by describing her project and its feminist rationale, and analyzing three fundamental challenges: how to make a feminist agenda work within development agencies, including the difficulties of finding funding and the constraints imposed by funders; the ethical and methodological issues raised by feminism - including the differences between women and the legitimacy of studying the Other; and how to find new ways to work together for global change without imposing Western feminism on Southern women.

Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015061435361

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Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge by Obioma Nnaemeka Pdf

Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way mitigate the ideological underpinnings of empire-building and the knowledge construction that subtends it. The mindset finds its articulation at points of coalescence. Female circumcision provided a point of coalescence and impetus for this articulation. Insisting that the hierarchy on which the imperialist project rests is not bipolar but multi-layered and more complex, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. Nnaemeka gives voice to the silenced and marginalized, and creates space for them to participate in knowledge construction and theory making. The authors in this volume trace the travels of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse, to modern configurations in films, literature, and popular culture. The contributors interrogate foreign, or Western, modus operandi and interventions in the so-called Third World and show how the resistance they generate can impede development work and undermine the true collaboration and partnership necessary to promote a transnational feminist agenda. With great clarity and in simple, accessible language, the contributors present complex ideas and arguments which hold significant implications for transnational feminism and development.