Working Paper

Working Paper
Author: Kathleen E. Sheldon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 1990
Genre: Women
ISBN:

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Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World

Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
Author: Mary Ann Tétreault
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781570030161

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The contributors use a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze how women as a class have experienced specific twentieth-century revolutions. They identify the issues that prompted women to participate in the struggles, the roles they played, the contributions they made, and their hopes for better lives for themselves as women in the post-revolutionary society.

Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique

Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique
Author: Jonna Katto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000701158

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This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation. Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through a study of the women ex-combatants’ lived landscapes, shows how their life trajectories unfold as nonlinear spatial histories. This brings into focus the women’s shifting and multilayered negotiations for personal space and belonging. This book explores the life memories of the now aging female ex-combatants in the province of Niassa in northern Mozambique, looking at how the female ex-combatants’ experiences of living in these northern landscapes have shaped their sense of socio-spatial belonging and attachment. It builds on the premise that individual embodied memory cannot be separated from social memory; personal lives are culturally shaped. Thus, the book does not only tell the history of a small and rather unique group of women but also speaks about wider cultural histories of body-landscape relations in northern Mozambique and especially changes in those relations. Enriching our understanding of the gendered history of the liberation struggle in Mozambique and informing broader discussions on gender and nationalism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African history, especially the colonial and postcolonial history of Lusophone Africa, as well as gender/women’s history and peace and conflict studies.

Women's Political Communication in Africa

Women's Political Communication in Africa
Author: Sharon Adetutu Omotoso
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030428273

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This book examines women’s political communication in Africa, capturing previously unheard women’s voices, and presenting detailed information on overlooked communication strategies and forms of power relations employed by African women and women of African descent. By examining the disputes, accomplishments and/or setbacks experienced by women in political spaces, it underscores feminist intersections of political communication in Africa. It also explores the glamor, humor, harmony and tact that women as state and non-state actors have contributed to Africa’s political landscape through the realities of female soft power. The book addresses issues concerning how and why women do and should participate in politics; at what level they have employed political communication strategies; and which types. It also questions ideas and ideals that have guided or continue to guide feminist political communication in Africa’s growing democracy. Lastly, it highlights African women’s conscious approach and rejuvenated interest in developing their communication skills and strategies given their vital role in state-building.

Working Papers

Working Papers
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1990
Genre: Women
ISBN:

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The Women And International Development Annual, Volume 2

The Women And International Development Annual, Volume 2
Author: Rita S Gallin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100061249X

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This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore women's experiences across a wide range of geographical areas, economic sectors, and societal institutions. The articles presented in each volume synthesize a growing body of literature on key issues, suggest priorities for research, and propose changes in development policy and programming. Each volume is divided into three major sections. In the first, contributors distill and interpret research in review articles; in the second - a trend report - they provide original analysis of existing data sets; and in the final section, they analyze a specific research concern from varying perspectives.

Women's Studies and Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990s

Women's Studies and Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990s
Author: Amina Mama
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

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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.