Lanterna Rally
eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Women's Studies and Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990s
Author: Amina Mama
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Nigerian woman scholar addresses three main areas of literature in gender and women's studies, a discipline which has become a vast field of research, teaching and activism in Africa and beyond. She situates African women's studies in the context ofinternational feminism, regional political and institutional conditions. The study addresses recent publications in the general field of state and politics, from precolonial times to the present; reviews a range of material grouped under the heading of cultural studies; and considers the historical and contempoary literature on all aspects of women's involvement in various sphers of work and the economy. Finally, the author questions the relationship between women's studies and the women's movement in Africa.
The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies
Author: Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2021-10-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783030280987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.
Readings in Gender in Africa
Author: Andrea Cornwall
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780253345172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a comprehensive overview on the existing literature on gender in Africa. It covers areas such as Western perceptions, colonial morality, religion and politics.
Africa After Gender?
Author: Catherine M. Cole
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007-02-07
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 0253218772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. This volume looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed.
Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
Author: Iris Berger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0521517079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.
African Women
Author: M. Turshen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010-11-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230106758
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the current debates, to encourage new thinking on these issues, and to indicate areas for needed research.
Transatlantic Feminisms
Author: Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-03-18
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1498507174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Transatlantic Feminisms is an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women’s lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this unique collection of fifteen essays addresses the need for global perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race and class. Examining diverse topics and questions in contemporary feminist research, the authors describe and analyze women’s lives in a host of vibrant, compelling locations. There are essays exploring women’s political activism in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Santo Domingo, Jamaica and Tanzania. Other essays explore representation and creativity in Brazil, Nigeria, and Miami. While one essay examines African women as conflicted immigrants in France, another recounts the experiences of Haitian women trying to survive in the Dominican Republic. Core themes of the book include the evolution of black feminism; black feminist political leadership; the politics of identity and representation; and struggles for agency and survival. These themes are interwoven throughout the volume and illuminate different geographic and cultural experiences, yet very similar oppressive forces and forms of resistance.
Women’s Sport in Africa
Author: John Bale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1317637666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent decades Africa has emerged as a sporting giant. The African sporting phenomenon has been addressed in the popular press and it has also attracted scholarly interest; however, this interest is almost entirely focussed on men. Yet women’s participation in recreational and elite sport is worthy of exploration and research. This path-breaking collection of essays provides an introduction to a variety of dimensions of women’s participation in African sports. Several key concepts are addressed in the book: women and media, women and sport-migration, sport and empowerment, sporting and social development, women’s sport and postcolonial Africa, and professional sport and economic development. This collection, authored by established scholars, will attract readership from students from Sports Studies to African Studies and from undergraduate students to university teachers. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
African Women
Author: Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0429971044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the last century, the social and economic roles played by African women have evolved dramatically. Long confined to home and field, overlooked by their menfolk and missionaries alike, African women worked, thought, dreamed, and struggled. They migrated to the cities, invented new jobs, and activated the so-called informal economy to become Africa's economic and social focal point. As a result, despite their lack of education and relatively low status, women are now Africa's best hope for the future. This sweeping and innovative book is the first to reconstruct the full history of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the lot of African women from the eve of the colonial period to the present, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch explores the stages and forms of women's collective roles as well as their individual emancipation through revolts, urban migrations, economic impacts, social claims, political strength, and creativity. Comparing case studies drawn from throughout the region, she sheds light on issues ranging from gender to economy, politics, society, and culture. Utilizing an impressive array of sources, she highlights broad general patterns without overlooking crucial local variations. With its breadth of coverage and clear analysis of complex questions, this book is destined to become a standard text for scholars and students alike.
