ISBN:
9780415597845
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (225 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Development Economics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa
DDC:
305.4096
Keywords:
Economic development ; Africa
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Human security ; Africa
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Poverty ; Africa
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Public health ; Africa
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Women ; Africa ; Economic conditions
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Women ; Africa ; Social conditions
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Women and human security ; Africa
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The concept of security has often narrowly focused on issues surrounding the protection of national borders from outside threats. However, a richer idea of human security has become increasingly important in the past decade or so. The aim is to incorporate various dimensions of the downside risks affecting the generalized well-being or dignity of people. Despite this rising prominence, the discourses surrounding human security have neglected to address the topic of gender, particularly how issues of poverty and underdevelopment impact women's and men's experiences and strategies differently.Si
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Gendered insecurities, health and development in Africa: An introduction; 1 The gender context of vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: The case of men and women in low income areas of the city of Lilongwe in Malawi; 2 Treating AIDS in Uganda and South Africa: Semi-authoritarian technologies in gendered contexts of insecurity; 3 Whose human security?: Gender, neoliberalism and the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
4 African poverty, gender and insecurity5 Food crises: The impact on African women and children; 6 Gender, environment and human security in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana; 7 Negotiating security: Gender, violence and the rule of law in post-war South Sudan; 8 Gender, agency and peace negotiations in Africa; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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