the politics of survival in sub-Saharan Africa
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mikell, Gwendolyn > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Schoepf, Brooke Grundfest
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- B1428 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwart feminisme, familierecht, textielindustrie, sociale klasse, alcohol, steden, kolonialisme, migratie, plattelandsvrouwen, politieke participatie, crisissen, vrouwennetwerken, technologie, traditionele geneeswijzen, aids, Afrika, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- De bundel bevat case studies waarin een beeld wordt geschetst van de politieke en economische situatie in tien Afrikaanse landen. Tevens wordt aangetoond dat Afrikaans feminisme zich sterk onderscheidt van westers feminisme. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Part I. Legal interactions in the domestic realm : 1) Changing the meaning of marriage : women and family law in Côte d'Ivoire/ door Jeanne Maddox Toungara: 2) Wives, children, and Intestate Succession in Ghana/ door Takyiwaa Manuh: 3)Pleas for domestic relief : Akan women and family courts/ door Gwendolyn Mikell. Part II. Economic change, political economy and womens's lives : 4) Swazi women workers in cottage industries and factories/ door Betty J.Harris: 5) Alcohol and politics in urban Zambia : the intersection of gender and class/ door Ilsa M.Glazer: 6) Women's roles in settlement and resettlement in Mali/ door Dolores Koenig: 7) Ethiopian rural women and the state/ door Tsehai Berhane-Selassie: 8)Women and grassroots politics in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire/ door Carlene H.Dei: 9) Kenyan women in politics and public decision making/ door Maria Nzomo: Part III Surviving crisis in the community 10)'Our women keep our skies from falling' : women's networks and survival imperatives in Tshunyane, South Africa/ door Shawn Riva Donaldson 11) Technology and the fuel crisis : adjustment among women in Northern Nigeria/ door D.J. Shehu 12) Swazi traditional healers, role transformation, and gender/ door Enid Gort 13) AIDS, gender and sexuality during Africa's economic crisis/ door Brooke Grundfest Schoepf.