Women in Africa and the Diaspora – serie
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23 produkter
Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Häftad, 2011
331 kr
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Provides a rich and compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confront the challenges and opportunities of the twentieth century. Contrary to Western stereotypes of passive subordination, these women are taking control of their own lives and resisting domination from indigenous …
Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa
Contesting Authority
Av Shireen Hassim, Madeleine M. Henry
Häftad, 2006
275 kr
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The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of …
Gossip, Markets, and Gender
How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-socialist Kilimanjaro
Inbunden, 2007
514 kr
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All traders are thieves, especially women traders, people often assured social anthropologist Tuulikki Pietila during her field work in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in the mid-1990s. Equally common were stories about businessmen who had ""bought a spirit"" for their enrichment. Pietila places these and …
Embodying Honor
Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan
Inbunden, 2007
621 kr
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In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood through bearing and raising healthy children, especially sons. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. Amidst struggle for …
Rising Anthills
African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960-2000
Häftad, 2010
445 kr
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Female genital excision, or the ritual of cutting the external genitals of girls and women, is undoubtedly one of the most heavily and widely debated cultural traditions of our time. By looking at how writers of African descent have presented the practice in their literary work, Elisabeth Bekers …
Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya
Leadership, Representation, and Social Change
Häftad, 2013
297 kr
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In education, journalism, legislative politics, social justice, health, law, and other arenas, Muslim women across Kenya are emerging as leaders in local, national, and international contexts, advancing reforms through their activism. Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya draws on extensive interviews …
Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives
Häftad, 2015
599 kr
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Do African men and women think about and act out their ethnicity in different ways? Most studies of ethnicity in Africa consider men’s experiences, but rarely have scholars examined whether women have the same idea of what it means to be, for example, Igbo or Tswana or Kikuyu. Or, studies have …
I Am Evelyn Amony
Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army
Häftad, 2015
306 kr
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More than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army and its notorious commander Joseph Kony. Evelyn Amony was one of them.I Am Evelyn Amony tells a harrowing story of heartbreaking loss, unrelenting horror, and …
Silenced Resistance
Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Av Joanna Allan
Inbunden, 2019
908 kr
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Spain’s former African colonies—Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara—share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial regimes, and are known by human rights organizations as being among the worst places in the world with regard to oppression and lack of civil …
Silenced Resistance
Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Av Joanna Allan
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Spain's former African colonies—Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara—share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial regimes, and are known by human rights organizations as being among the worst places in the world with regard to oppression and lack of civil …
Holding the World Together
African Women in Changing Perspective
Av Nwando Achebe, Claire Robertson
Inbunden, 2019
428 kr
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Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present.Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive …
Holding the World Together
African Women in Changing Perspective
Av Nwando Achebe, Claire Robertson
Häftad, 2021
251 kr
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Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive …
Claiming Civic Virtue
Gendered Network Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania
Inbunden, 2019
935 kr
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Among communities in the Mara region of Tanzania, it is considered men’s responsibility to maintain “history.” But when Jan Bender Shetler’s questions turned to specific familial connections within the village, she discovered her male informants had to occasionally leave the room—to ask their wives …
Slave Trade and Abolition
Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda
Inbunden, 2021
935 kr
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Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the history of this …
Slave Trade and Abolition
Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda
Häftad, 2022
297 kr
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Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the history of this …
Bold Profession
African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa
Inbunden, 2021
935 kr
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In rural South African clinics, Black nurses played critical roles. Charged with administering valuable and life-saving health care measures despite a lack of equipment and personnel, these nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations, …
Bold Profession
African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa
Häftad, 2023
312 kr
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In rural South African clinics, Black nurses played critical roles. Charged with administering valuable and life-saving health care measures despite a lack of equipment and personnel, these nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations, …
Shaping Tradition
Women's Roles in Ceremonial Rituals of the Agwagune
Inbunden, 2021
935 kr
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Agwagune women in southeastern Nigeria contribute to the cultural construction of their societies in deep and systematic ways. This reality is often concealed, misrepresented, or unexamined in studies that do not consciously set out to address female agency and authority. Most recently women have …
Equals in Learning and Piety
Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America
Av Beverly Mack
Inbunden, 2023
935 kr
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Equals in Learning and Piety is an intellectual history of the ‘Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that continues to this day in both northern Nigeria and in the United States. Drawing on extensive scholarship across disciplines including history, Islamic …
Spirit Wives and Church Mothers
Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique
Inbunden, 2023
935 kr
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Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Pentecostal churches have proliferated around the world. Expanding at astonishing rates in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Pentecostalism has shifted Christianity’s global center of gravity from the West to the global South. In Spirit Wives …
Tired of Weeping
Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Häftad, 2004
272 kr
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In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jonina Einarsdottir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy. …
Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Inbunden, 2005
509 kr
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Engaging Modernity is Ousseina Alidou's rich and compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confront the challenges and opportunities of the twentieth century. Contrary to Western stereotypes of passive subordination, these women are taking control of their own lives and resisting …
Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa
Contesting Authority
Inbunden, 2006
732 kr
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The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of …
