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The making of elite women : revolution and nation building in Eritrea / by Tanja R. Müller

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

Online-Ressource (299 p) : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Englisch

List of appendices; Acknowledgements; Glossary of foreign words; List of acronyms; INTRODUCTION; 1 SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN A REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETY - THE CONTEXT; 2 WITHIN THE ERITREAN REVOLUTION: NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND WOMEN'S LIBERATION - CONFLICTING OBJECTIVES OR COMPLEMENTARY AGENDA?; 3 METHODOLOGY; 4 OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND UNIVERSITY GRADUATES: THE STRUGGLE AS WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY - SOME HISTORIES; 5 THE JOURNEY THROUGH SCHOOLING - SUCCESSES AND TRIBULATIONS OF YOUNG WOMEN IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

6 WOMEN IN THE ELITE I: CHALLENGES OF THE PRESENT, EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE7 WOMEN IN THE ELITE II: AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE - THE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL EMANCIPATION; 8 THE STORY SO FAR - CONCLUSION; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-296) and index

Print version: The Making of Elite Women : Revolution and Nation Building in Eritrea

90-04-14287-8

978-90-04-14287-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

HQ1391.E65

305.48/9621/09635     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Women -- Education -- Eritrea ; Women in politics -- Eritrea ; Women in the professions -- Eritrea ; Eritrea -- Politics and government -- 1993- ; Women in public life -- Eritrea

Eritrea ; Politics and government ; 1993- ; Women ; Education ; Eritrea ; Women ; Political activity ; Eritrea ; Women in public life ; Eritrea ; Women in the professions ; Eritrea ; Electronic books

This book captures the intriguing stories of different generations of women within the Eritrean nation building process. Theoretical analyses of political and social change are combined with extensive field research to provide a comprehensive picture of modernisation processes in Eritrea