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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings Congresses |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Power, gender, and social change in Africa. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 (DLC) 2009512065 (OCoLC)319584241 |
Material Type: | Conference publication, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Muna Ndulo; Margaret Grieco |
ISBN: | 1443805823 9781443805827 9781443806282 1443806285 |
OCLC Number: | 667002531 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) |
Contents: | Taking the fast track to Parliament: comparing electoral gender quotas in eastern and southern Africa /rGretchen Bauer -- Women's rights advocacy versus gender and development programming: complementary or alternative strategies? / Marcia Greenberg -- Radical citizenship: powerful mothers and equal rights / Judith Van Allen -- The economic roots of African women's political participation / Claire Robertson -- Mobilizing for change locally and globally: African women as scholar-activists in feminists and gender studies / Mary J. Osirim -- The anthropological collaborator: feminist scholarship and activism in Africa -- Maternal mortality and transport : Africa's burden / Margaret Grieco -- Women in Chinsapo, Malawi : vulnerability and risk of HIV/AIDS / Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni -- Islam and girl's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa : exploring the size and sources of the gender gap in education / Fatou Jah -- Gender equity in African tertiary education systems : a critical look at women's progress / Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika -- Imagine all the women : power, gender and the transformative possibilities of the South African Constitution / Penelope E. Andrews -- Women and inheritance under customary law : the response of the courts / Muna Ndulo -- Land reforms, land titling and gender dilemmas in Africa : an exploration of issues / Susie Jacobs -- Empowering women in the African entrepreneurial landscape : micro-entrepreneurs to business globalists in the formal and informal sectors / Anita Spring -- Armed conflict, displacement, gender-based violence in Africa and "anomie, " the case of Darfur / Kabahenda Nyakabwa. |
Responsibility: | edited by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco. |
Abstract:
Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community.
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