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Negotiating power and privilege : Igbo career women in contemporary Nigeria / Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika

Athens [Ohio] : Center for International Studies, Ohio University, c2004

Online-Ressource (xiv, 230 p)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index

Print version: Negotiating Power and Privilege : Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria

0-89680-241-8 ; 0-89680-438-0

978-0-89680-241-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

DT515.45.I33

305.48/8963320669     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Women, Igbo -- Social conditions ; Nigeria -- Economic conditions ; Nigeria -- Social conditions ; Working mothers -- Nigeria ; Women, Igbo -- Economic conditions ; Women, Igbo -- Employment ; Women employees -- Nigeria ; Women -- Government policy -- Nigeria ; Sex role -- Government policy -- Nigeria ; Sexual division of labor -- Nigeria

Sex role ; Government policy ; Nigeria ; Women ; Government policy ; Nigeria ; Women employees ; Nigeria ; Women, Igbo ; Economic conditions ; Women, Igbo ; Employment ; Women, Igbo ; Social conditions ; Working mothers ; Nigeria ; Electronic books ; Nigeria ; Social conditions ; Nigeria ; Economic conditions ; Sexual division of labor ; Nigeria

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Placing Igbo Women within an African Context -- 2 Gender Relations in Family and Society -- 3 From Housewives to Career Women -- 4 Your Life Is Not Entirely Your Business -- 5 Gendered Lives, Gendered Aspirations -- 6 Making It in Paid Employment -- 7 Balancing Act -- 8 Ours Is Ours but My Own Is My Own -- 9 Looking to the Future -- Appendix: Interview Format -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.