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Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class Kenya
Disrupting Patri-centered Frameworks
Inbunden, 2017
1134 kr
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This study of twenty first century girlhoods and womanhoods charts a new area of scholarship on Kenya. The chapters investigate questions related to how new rituals of girlhood and womanhood that materialize when religious, indigenous, and foreign worlds encounter each other are re-structuring …
Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy
States of Violence
Av Lyn Ossome
Inbunden, 2018
1275 kr
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Critiquing the valorization of democracy as a means of containing violence and stabilizing political contestation, this book draws links between the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya. The book shows the contradictory …
Through the Gender Lens
A Century of Social and Political Development in Nigeria
Inbunden, 2018
1556 kr
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Sustainable development is now intricately linked not just to economic growth, but more importantly, to the quality of life of people in terms of their social status, political participation, cultural freedom, environmental justice and inclusive development. For previously colonized nations like …
Gender and Development in Nigeria
One Hundred Years of Nationhood
Inbunden, 2018
1240 kr
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In this edited volume, Nigerian scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the relationship between gender and Nigeria’s pathways of development in the last 100 years of its nationhood. This analysis is set against the background of unequal power dynamics between women and men, and specifically …
Child Rape in Ghana
Lifting the Veil
Inbunden, 2019
1204 kr
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This book analyzes the etiology of child rape in Ghana within the framework of rape culture. By applying feminist perspectives and psychological theories to laws in Ghana to protect children against sexual abuse, this book creates room for both victims and perpetrators to tell their stories while …
Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies
Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies
Av Besi Brillian Muhonja, Babacar M’Baye
Inbunden, 2022
1204 kr
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In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye, contributors explore the application of ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies. Through the lens of ubuntu/utu, the …
Postcolonial Imbusa
Bemba Women’s Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems
Inbunden, 2023
1063 kr
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Imbusa, a rite of passage for marriage among the Bemba people of Zambia, is one of the most salient and resilient rituals that shapes and informs the private and public life. It is one of the most formidable cultural forces that defines behaviors and determines everyday relations between women and …
Social Media and Gender in Africa
Discourses on Power and Politics of Everyday Life
Av Shepherd Mpofu, Kealeboga Aiseng
Inbunden, 2024
1415 kr
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The images of men, women, and individuals across the gender spectrum on African social media platforms are socially, culturally, and politically embedded with ideologies that continue to shape our understandings of gender. Social Media and Gender in Africa: Discourses on Power and Politics of …
Mediating Gender in African Social Media
Representation, Commodification, and Sexuality
Av Shepherd Mpofu, Kealeboga Aiseng
Inbunden, 2025
1275 kr
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Through African case studies, this book explores how gender and sexuality are articulated on social media. While the representation of gender in mainstream media has been studied for many decades, this book fills a gap by focusing on social media platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, and Tik Tok, …
Mediating Gender in African Social Media
Representation, Commodification, and Sexuality
Av Shepherd Mpofu, Kealeboga Aiseng
E-bok, 2025
1403 kr
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Through African case studies, this book explores how gender and sexuality are articulated on social media. While the representation of gender in mainstream media has been studied for many decades, this book fills a gap by focusing on social media platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, and Tik Tok, …
Mediating Gender in African Social Media
Representation, Commodification, and Sexuality
Av Shepherd Mpofu, Kealeboga Aiseng
Häftad, 2027
412 kr
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Through African case studies, this book explores how gender and sexuality are articulated on social media. While the representation of gender in mainstream media has been studied for many decades, this book fills a gap by focusing on social media platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, and Tik Tok, …
Southern African Queer and Trans Narratives in Digital Landscapes
Av Princess A. Sibanda, Gibson Ncube m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1275 kr
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Focusing on Southern African perspectives, this groundbreaking book explores how digital spaces offer alternative avenues for queer and trans visual cultures in Africa as manifested and shared through popular social media platforms. In its analysis of the dynamic intersection of …
Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies
Critical Perspectives and Methods
Av Babacar M'Baye, Besi Brillian Muhonja
Inbunden, 2019
1275 kr
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Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, and development studies, among others, Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the urgency and necessity of new research in gender …
Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War
Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa
Av Gloria Chuku, Sussie U. Aham-Okoro
Inbunden, 2020
1603 kr
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This first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who …
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies
Av Martha Donkor, Amoaba Gooden
Inbunden, 2022
1204 kr
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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, …
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies
Av Martha Donkor, Amoaba Gooden
Häftad, 2024
458 kr
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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, …
Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa
Inbunden, 2022
1432 kr
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Intersectionality and Women's Access to Justice, edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni, propounds layered intersectionality as a paradigm for examining how gendered factors affect women's access to justice, whether as judges or litigants. Through intersectional and decolonial frameworks, the contributors …
Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution
Kriolas Poderozas
Av Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves, Aminah N. Pilgrim
Inbunden, 2021
1466 kr
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Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo Verdean women and their experiences. The contributors examine their own experiences, the history of Cabo …
Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution
Kriolas Poderozas
Av Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves, Aminah N. Pilgrim
Häftad, 2023
526 kr
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Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo Verdean women and their experiences. The contributors examine their own experiences, the history of Cabo …
Gender and Education in Kenya
Inbunden, 2021
1170 kr
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Gender and Education in Kenya explores the intersections of curriculum, pedagogy, policy, and gender. The contributors study depictions of gender in textbooks, the presence and roles of girls and women within classrooms in Kenya, and female leadership in education, arguing that, despite recent …
Southern African Queer and Trans Narratives in Digital Landscapes
Av Princess A. Sibanda, Gibson Ncube
E-bok, 2026
1373 kr
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Focusing on Southern African perspectives, this groundbreaking book explores how digital spaces offer alternative avenues for queer and trans visual cultures in Africa as manifested and shared through popular social media platforms. In its analysis of the dynamic intersection of …
