ISBN:
9781793638571
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Patriarchy and gender in Africa
DDC:
305.3096
Keywords:
Women--Africa--Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Frau
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Diskriminierung
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Sexualität
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Gewalt
Abstract:
Patriarchy and Gender in Africa explores historical and contemporary issues of male dominance and control over women in legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors examine patriarchy and inequality across the continent, female resistance, and women's contributions to Africa's growth and development.
Abstract:
Cover -- Patriarchy and Gender in Africa -- Patriarchy and Gender in Africa -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Overview -- HerStory: Respecting Our Trailblazers -- Overview of Volume Contents -- References -- Chapter 1 -- The Past Before Us -- Illustrative Gender Audit -- Liberia's Experience: Expository Overview -- Engendering Power -- Discourses of Patriarchy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Intersectionality, Women's Rights in Africa, and the Maputo Protocol -- The Evolution of Intersectionality in Human Rights Discourse -- Intersectionality within the Discourse of Gender and Human Rights in Africa: The Example of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict -- Intersectionality within the African Regional System -- Intersectional Insights Reflected in the Maputo Protocol -- Where the AU Falls Short of a Commitment to Intersectionality: LGBTQI Rights -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Building the Patriarchy Index for Sub-Saharan Africa -- Literature Survey -- Conceptualizing Patriarchy in SSA -- Data Source and Analysis -- The Patriarchy Index for SSA -- Conclusion and Policy Options -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Patriarchy and Gender Challenges in Africa -- The Problem Situation -- Methodology -- Gender Expression in the Mbu Community -- The Issue of Wedlock Children in Cameroon -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Widow Inheritance in Northern Uganda -- The Institution of Marriage among the Acholi -- Widow Inheritance in Traditional Acholi Religion -- Widow Inheritance and Childcare -- The Clan System and Widow Inheritance -- Misconceptions about Widow Inheritance -- The Acholi Traditional Process of Widow Inheritance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Patriarchal and Traditional Gender Roles in Pre- and Post-Independent Eritrea.
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