Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Falola, Toyin.
2. Teboh, Bridget, 1961-

Description

1. x, 801 p. : ill..; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Male domination (Social structure) > Africa
2. Women's rights > Africa
3. Women > Africa > Social conditions > 19th century
4. Women > Africa > Social conditions > 20th century

Contents

1. 1. Introduction: the power of gender, the gender of power: women's labor, rights, and responsibilities in Africa / Bridget A. Teboh and Toyin Falola -- Part One. Gender and Contesting Professionalisms: 2. The marginalization of women in the south African mining and construction industry / Tanya Le Roux and W.J. Greeff; 3. Hindrances to the career development of female academics in Nigerian universities: a case study of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife / Adesunkanmi Sherifat Omolola; 4. Entrepreneurship in textile design: self-actualization/economic sustenance for women in "purdah" in Ondo State, Nigeria / Bridget Itunu Awosika; 5. Farming African women: the Swynnerton Plan and African women farmers / Muey Saeteurn -- Part II. Engendering Knowledge: Empowering Women: 6. Designing research, emerging herstories and the politics of biographical production on Cameroon / Bridget A. Teboh; 7 "Math hurts the delicate female frame": an analysis of the challenges of sixth graders in Cape Coast, Ghana / Francis E. Godwyll & Mary Naana Essiaw; 8. Feminism as prowess: Margaret Ekpo, a Nigerian nationalist and an icon of women politics / Donald O. Omagu; 9. Gender issues in African studies since 1945 / Flora Okpeh and Okpeh O. Okpeh, Jr.; 10. On District 9 and mobility rights in Africa / Olivier J. Tchouaffe -- Part tIII. Trafficking, Entrepreneurship and Conflict: 11. Women entrepreneurship in Nigeria: cultural perspectives and assessment of basic competence / Abimbola Olugbenga Fayomi; 12. Renovation while rebuilding: Muslim and Christian women's associations in the D.R. Congo / Ashley Leinweber; 13. Trafficking for sex work and social rehabilitation of commercial sex workers in Edo and Lagos States, Nigeria / Richard A. Aborisade & Adeyinka A. Aderinto; 14. Women and land conflict in the Cameroon grasslands of Bamenda / Emmanuel M. Mbah; 15. Eliminating feminization of poverty in the African development process / Mike O. Odey -- Part IV. Deconstructing Black Feminism and Gendered Politics: 16. Women leadership and constitutional rights in Africa: a myth or reality? / Ololade Kazeem Shonubi; 17. "Of hens and cocks": masculinity and democratic change in Kenya / Hannington Ochwada; 18. Politics of development: interrogating phallocentric space, renegotiating the gender of modern Nigerian politics / Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva; 19. Literary encounters with intimacy in Cape Verde / Isabel P.B. Fêo Rodrigues; 20. Response to a radical African feminist interpretation of patriarchy / Jonathan Zilberg -- Part V. Women's Labor, Women's Right and Gendered Violence: 21. Violence against women in post-conflict Liberia: challenges of peace building / Chris Agoha; 22. Interrogating policies on human trafficking in Nigeria / Mfon Umoren Ekpootu; 23. Gender-based violence and the quest for sustainable development in Nigeria / Solomon Akinboye and Damilola Agbalajobi; 24. Migrating into servitude: Akwa Ibom (Nigeria), women and neo-slavery / Eno Blankson Ikpe; 26. "That child has the eyes of a rebel soldier": the complex roles of female abductees in the Lord's Resistance Army / Megan Dale Lee ; 26. Diverse expressions of sexuality in tertiary institutions in Nigeria: the University of Lagos example / Lai Olurode and John Lekan Oyefara -- Part VI. Female Power, Cultural (Mis) Representations, Diasporic Linkages: 27. Sainted and wicked: women in Cape Verdean music / Juliana Braz Dias; 28. Womanhood in African worldview and religion / Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe; 29. Kicking against the pricks: the Nigerian constitution as an impediment to women's rights in Nigeria / Kevwe Mary Omoragbon; 30. Phat girlz: identifying with Yoruba culture from the diaspora / Olufadekemi Adagbada; 31. Continental and diasporic African women in the academy: a case for scholarly collaboration / Allyson A. Sesay.

Call number

1. Sc E 13-967

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The power of gender, the gender of power : women's labor, rights and responsibilities in Africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Bridget Teboh.

Imprint

1. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2013.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Falola, Toyin.
2. Teboh, Bridget, 1961-

LCCN

1. 2013012322

Other standard identifier

1. 40022523913

ISBN

1. 9781592219117 (hardcover)
2. 159221911X (hardcover)
3. 9781592219124 (pbk.)
4. 1592219128 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc E 13-967