Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945
Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780864860903
Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780864860903
Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780852552049
Until recently our understanding of southern African society was impoverished by the lack of attention paid to the key part played by women in the unfolding of its history. The author shows how fundamental gender has been in shaping the experience of women in Southern Africa, but emphasises that gender cannot be studied in isolation from race or class. North America: Indiana U Press
Author : Ruth E. Meena
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This book is a result of concerns and views expressed by participants at a Gender Planning Workshop which was organised by the SAPES Gender Project in July 1991. The contributions in this collection are essentially posing issues and questions which have not been handled by mainstream scholarship. The authors are challenging women and men to liberate mainstream scholarship from its male biases which limit our understanding of socio-economic and political processes which have contributed to the underdevelopment of this region.
Author : Mary Hames
Publisher : Southern African Research and Documentation Centre
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Comprises a national gender profile describing progress in achieving women's empowerment and gender equality goals between 1994 and 2004. Measures government's achievements against its stated commitments and assesses the impact of the institutional mechanism for women's advancement.
Author : Patricia McFadden
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The premise of this book is that African societies cannot move beyond colonial domination in structural and ideological terms without first recognising the deep-seated injustices which they had already constructed as normal in the pre-colonial period. The realisation of this has opened up new possibilities in the formulation of a more inclusive, post-colonial dispensation, especially for women. Scholars from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia contribute papers examining this transition from the gender perspective: Towards an Epistemological and Methological Framework of Development; Violence Against Women in Southern Africa; Mozambique: Women in the Armed Struggle; The Plight of Young People in Souther Africa; and Perspectives on the Beijing Policy Process in SADC.
Author : James Etim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9463005587
Africa has witnessed massive changes in the last fifty years – from independence through structural adjustment, rule by military juntas in several countries and to a period now where the focus is on how best to prioritize their needs based on resources, national goals and human potential. There is general agreement that human capital is important in economic growth and development. There is always the need to ensure that resources and human capital are used appropriately to advance development. Gender disparities, whether in treatment, access to resources, resource utilization and the law, may in themselves retard or slow down development. Resources and human potential in all societies include how best to ensure there is no gender disparity and to fully tap the resources inherent in women for personal, social and national development. Beginning with the women’s suffrage movement, there has been the push to encourage gender equality worldwide. The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 embodies the commitment of the international community to implement policies that will enhance the political, social, economic, educational empowerment of women. This book highlights the issues affecting women in Eastern and Southern Africa – what role does custom and patriarchy play in gender disparities in education, access to health, problems in the workplace and family relationships? How have women writers in the last twenty years presented the issues of patriarchy, women’s rights, globalism and women’s holistic development? What are recent developments that have helped improve the situation for some women? These are some of the issues that are covered in this book. The thesis of this book is that there have been policies and strategies developed that have worked to empower women. However, vestiges of sexism, gender disparities in several fields still remain and traditions/customs and patriarchy have aided in still keeping women down.div“/div>
Author : Emily Bridger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1847012639
Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.
Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253363237
Author : Colleen Lowe Morna
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780864861702