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A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title
Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa.
Published | 29 Mar 2023 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 352 |
ISBN | 9781793642066 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Illustrations | 13 b/w illustrations; 9 tables; |
Dimensions | 223 x 154 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
This text is a major contribution to women’s studies in Africa and elsewhere.Scholars from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the US are among the authors that Uchendu and Edeagu have brought together in this illuminating, scholarly, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary work. Over four sections—"Gender Discourse and Domination"; "Women, Work, and Exploitation"; "Women in Power and Male Dominance"; and "Policy Implementation"—the contributing authors examine patriarchal structures of dominance and systemic hindrances to full equality. They find that institutionalized patriarchy has been the norm in various spheres, including everyday speech, and has been reflected in film, literature, and politics…. Projects such as the Kenyan Dads and Daughters and mechanisms such as the Maputo Protocol are among the harbingers of hope discussed in the collection. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.
Choice Reviews
An important contribution to the study of gender in Africa that bridges historical, literary, film studies, and social science approaches as well as policy implementation. Readers are able to explore the core themes of patriarchy and inequality through multiple case studies from across the continent not only to understand the past and present, but also to have an impact on the future.
Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross
Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies provides new and refreshing perspectives on contemporary thematic preoccupations in gender narratives. I unreservedly recommend it to scholars and students alike.
G.M.T Emezue, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.
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