Author: Amadu SesayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Nigerian Women in Society and Development
Author: Amadu SesayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Nigerian Women in Social Change
Author: Simi AfonjaThe Contribution of Women to National Development in Nigeria
Author: Jadesola Olayinka Debo AkandePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Women and National Development
Author: Hajo SaniGender and Development in Nigeria
Author: Funmi SoetanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498564763
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In this edited volume, Nigerian scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the relationship between gender and Nigeria’s pathways of development in the last 100 years of its nationhood. This analysis is set against the background of unequal power dynamics between women and men, and specifically the ways in which social, cultural, political, and economic construction of gender has influenced Nigeria’s course of development through her colonial and post-colonial history. The influence of the nature of economic governance, policy, and institutional frameworks, the nature of resource availability and (re)distribution between women and men in terms of goods and services, knowledge and skills, policies and budgets, and the outcomes and impacts for women and men are seen in terms of women’s economic empowerment, equal participation and development benefits. This rich collection of empirical works therefore provides not just the rhetoric but the evidence to indict gender power relations in Nigeria, especially at the institutional level. This volume unpacks and explores this recurrent problem with a the goal of identifying new pathways for gender relations.
Through the Gender Lens
Author: Funmi SoetanPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498593259
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Sustainable development is now intricately linked not just to economic growth, but more importantly, to the quality of life of people in terms of their social status, political participation, cultural freedom, environmental justice and inclusive development. For previously colonized nations like Nigeria, these linkages are believed to have been influenced by the legacies of colonial rule, positively or otherwise. Through the Gender Lens: A Century of Social and Political Development in Nigeria looks at how colonialism has enabled or hindered the roles of the state in promoting inclusive development in general, and gender equality, in particular, in the process of nation building. In this edited volume, scholars analyze a host of policies, strategies and programs, as well as empirical evidence, to expose how types of governance — from direct colonial rule in the country from 1914, through her independence in 1960, a Republic in 1963, and to different post-independence governance periods — have influenced gender relations, and the impacts of these on Nigerian women. Diverse sectoral perspectives from education, health, culture, environment, and especially politics, are presented to explain the level of attainment (or otherwise) of gender equality and the implications for Nigeria’s road to sustainable development. The emphasis on the role of the state in development particularly indicts the social and political domains of governance. Hence, the main focus of inquiry in the volume. In its twelve chapters, the authors analyze available data and other information to draw relevant conclusions, identify lessons of experience, including from some cross-country comparisons, and make concrete recommendations for more gender-inclusive systems of governance in the next century of Nigeria’s nationhood.
Nigerian Women and Development
Author: Feminism and the State in Nigeria
Author: Amina MamaShaping Our Struggles
Author: Obioma NnaemekaPublisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN: 9781592217465
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In analysing a range of materials that testify to the wide spectrum of women's experiences in Nigeria, this groundbreaking collection seeks to draw attention to neglected aspects of women's lives in Nigerian society as a whole. Exploring the historical, developmental and socio-cultural experiences of women across Nigeria's cultures, it reappraises their role as historical actors and helps to facilitate a more encompassing view of their place in society and their still underestimated contribution to social development.
Shaping Our Struggles
Author: Obioma NnaemekaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781592217458
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This publication provides a critical reconsideration of women in Nigerian society by exploring their historical, developmental, and socio-cultural experiences across Nigeria's cultures. While focusing on still neglected aspects of women's experiences, a reappraisal of women's roles as historical actors facilitates a fuller understanding of their place in society and their contribution to societal development. Their changing roles, their marginalization at different historical times, and most importantly, their resilience and resistance to the classification of women as the lower class in society is reflected in the diverse and reflective essays presented in this volume. In analyzing a range of material that testifies to the wide spectrum of women's experiences in Nigeria, the essays in this collection consider women as a distinct category in society and reflect on ays women have navigated through the obstacles which have confronted them historically and their extraordinary abilities to assert their autonomy as individuals and as groups.