Assata Zerai isprofessor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Brenda N. Sanya is A. Lindsay O'Connor visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Colgate University.

Too often, the debates on development and gender are either too abstract or too technical. This book strikes the right balance to deliver practical and transformational knowledge. Assata Zerai and Brenda Sanya, along with a diverse group of scholars, offer a rich analysis of everyday development challenges (safe water, sanitation, and health) through an African feminist lens. In this book, they simultaneously examine the common challenges in achieving core development goals and provide a powerful critique of the gendered development knowledge system. By simply asking 'Where are the women?', they provide a catalytic perspective for weaving Africanist, feminist, and social justice discourses into a compelling analysis of everyday development challenges and structural inequality in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and a liberating critique of gendered knowledge in development studies. In the end, they not only expand our understanding of how the exclusion of women from policy design and implementation happens, but also elucidate the consequences of women’s exclusion on households and communities. More importantly, they remind us that a crucial source of social change is the efforts of mothers, health professionals, and activists to advocate for clean water, safe sanitation, and health resources.

• Introduction: Assata Zerai and Brenda N. SanyaChapter 1: The Lives of Women and Children in East AfricaAssata ZeraiChapter 2: Structural and Economic Analysis of Declines in Water and Sanitation in East AfricaShorma Bianca Bailey and Assata ZeraiChapter 3. Public Goods, Citizenship Rights: How Lingering Structural Inequalities Define Social Services and Government PoliciesBrenda N. SanyaChapter 4: Access to Safe Water, Women’s Empowerment, and Decentralization Systems in TanzaniaTeresia R. OlemakoChapter 5: Gender as Social Structure and its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An African Feminist AnalysisAssata Zerai and Rebecca MorrowChapter 6: Environmental Contamination and Early Childhood Morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and UgandaAssata Zerai, Rebecca Morrow, and Courtney CuthbertsonConclusion: Paying Serious Attention to Women’s Scholarship to Influence Policy in East AfricaAssata Zerai and Joanna PerezAppendix 1: River Ba

Assata Zerai isprofessor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Brenda N. Sanya is A. Lindsay O'Connor visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Colgate University.

Too often, the debates on development and gender are either too abstract or too technical. This book strikes the right balance to deliver practical and transformational knowledge. Assata Zerai and Brenda Sanya, along with a diverse group of scholars, offer a rich analysis of everyday development challenges (safe water, sanitation, and health) through an African feminist lens. In this book, they simultaneously examine the common challenges in achieving core development goals and provide a powerful critique of the gendered development knowledge system. By simply asking 'Where are the women?', they provide a catalytic perspective for weaving Africanist, feminist, and social justice discourses into a compelling analysis of everyday development challenges and structural inequality in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and a liberating critique of gendered knowledge in development studies. In the end, they not only expand our understanding of how the exclusion of women from policy design and implementation happens, but also elucidate the consequences of women’s exclusion on households and communities. More importantly, they remind us that a crucial source of social change is the efforts of mothers, health professionals, and activists to advocate for clean water, safe sanitation, and health resources.

• Introduction: Assata Zerai and Brenda N. SanyaChapter 1: The Lives of Women and Children in East AfricaAssata ZeraiChapter 2: Structural and Economic Analysis of Declines in Water and Sanitation in East AfricaShorma Bianca Bailey and Assata ZeraiChapter 3. Public Goods, Citizenship Rights: How Lingering Structural Inequalities Define Social Services and Government PoliciesBrenda N. SanyaChapter 4: Access to Safe Water, Women’s Empowerment, and Decentralization Systems in TanzaniaTeresia R. OlemakoChapter 5: Gender as Social Structure and its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An African Feminist AnalysisAssata Zerai and Rebecca MorrowChapter 6: Environmental Contamination and Early Childhood Morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and UgandaAssata Zerai, Rebecca Morrow, and Courtney CuthbertsonConclusion: Paying Serious Attention to Women’s Scholarship to Influence Policy in East AfricaAssata Zerai and Joanna PerezAppendix 1: River Ba

Assata Zerai isprofessor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Brenda N. Sanya is A. Lindsay O'Connor visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Colgate University.

Too often, the debates on development and gender are either too abstract or too technical. This book strikes the right balance to deliver practical and transformational knowledge. Assata Zerai and Brenda Sanya, along with a diverse group of scholars, offer a rich analysis of everyday development challenges (safe water, sanitation, and health) through an African feminist lens. In this book, they simultaneously examine the common challenges in achieving core development goals and provide a powerful critique of the gendered development knowledge system. By simply asking 'Where are the women?', they provide a catalytic perspective for weaving Africanist, feminist, and social justice discourses into a compelling analysis of everyday development challenges and structural inequality in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and a liberating critique of gendered knowledge in development studies. In the end, they not only expand our understanding of how the exclusion of women from policy design and implementation happens, but also elucidate the consequences of women’s exclusion on households and communities. More importantly, they remind us that a crucial source of social change is the efforts of mothers, health professionals, and activists to advocate for clean water, safe sanitation, and health resources.

• Introduction: Assata Zerai and Brenda N. SanyaChapter 1: The Lives of Women and Children in East AfricaAssata ZeraiChapter 2: Structural and Economic Analysis of Declines in Water and Sanitation in East AfricaShorma Bianca Bailey and Assata ZeraiChapter 3. Public Goods, Citizenship Rights: How Lingering Structural Inequalities Define Social Services and Government PoliciesBrenda N. SanyaChapter 4: Access to Safe Water, Women’s Empowerment, and Decentralization Systems in TanzaniaTeresia R. OlemakoChapter 5: Gender as Social Structure and its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An African Feminist AnalysisAssata Zerai and Rebecca MorrowChapter 6: Environmental Contamination and Early Childhood Morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and UgandaAssata Zerai, Rebecca Morrow, and Courtney CuthbertsonConclusion: Paying Serious Attention to Women’s Scholarship to Influence Policy in East AfricaAssata Zerai and Joanna PerezAppendix 1: River Ba