ISBN:
9780230102484
,
9781349286812
,
1349286818
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 220 Seiten in 1 Teil
,
21.6 cm x 14 cm, 0 g
Edition:
1st ed. 2010
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Swai, Elinami Veraeli Beyond women's empowerment in Africa
DDC:
305.4889678
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
;
Tanzania
;
Women in development Tanzania
;
Women Social conditions
;
Africa
;
Women in development Africa
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women in development
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women in development
;
Ländlicher Raum
;
Frau
;
Wissen
;
Erfahrungswissen
;
Empowerment
;
Traditionale Kultur
;
Lebensstil
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Partizipation
;
Gender studies: women
;
African history
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Society
;
Women in development
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Africa
;
Tanzania
;
Afrika
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Tansania
;
Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
Lebensbedingungen
;
Soziale Stellung
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Geschichte
;
Frauenforschung
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschlechterverhältnis
;
Forschung
;
Geschlechterforschung
Abstract:
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Understanding Disempowerment: Concepts and Claims; 2 Women's Knowledge Systems: Toward Ambivalence and Silences; 3 Speaking through Fashion: Khanga as Women's Knowledge System; 4 Inside Society: The Role of Women's Knowledge Systems in Africa's Development; 5 The Genesis of Women Disempowerment: The Case of Kilimanjaro; 6 Knowledge Is Power and Power Is Knowledge: The Politics of Women's Empowerment; 7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
Abstract:
"This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge. Using case studies, it historicizes the experiences of ordinary women in Tanzania and looks at how empowerment is used to, paradoxically, eviscerate women's knowledge systems"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
URL:
http://www.springer.com/
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