Author : Esi Sutherland-Addy
Publisher : Feminist Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781558615007
A major literary and scholarly work that transforms perceptions of West African women's history and culture.
Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 1997-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452903255
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
Author : Tricia Martineau Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1461748429
The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. The ten remarkable women in African American Women of the Old West were all born before 1900, some were slaves, some were free, and some lived both ways during their lifetime. Among them were laundresses, freedom advocates, journalists, educators, midwives, business proprietors, religious converts, philanthropists, mail and freight haulers, and civil and social activists.
Author : J. Arthur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0230623913
This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration.
Author : Aissata G. Sidikou
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253356709
Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.
Author : Mariana P. Candido
Publisher : Western Africa
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847012159
FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
Author : World Bank;World Trade Organization
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464815569
Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance opportunities for all. Research on gender equality and trade has been constrained by limited data and a lack of understanding of the connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.
Author : Marilyn Halter
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0814789250
'African & American' tells the story of the experience of West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. It highlights the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the evolving global ties with Africa and Europe, and the trans-local connections among the West African enclaves in the United States.
Author : Madhu Krishnan
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : 9781847013231
Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship Examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.
Author : Sandra E. Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253026024
In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.
