Author: An-Magritt JensenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Women's Position and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: An-Magritt JensenWomen's Roles and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Christine OppongPublisher:
ISBN: 9782871080367
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Iris BergerPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"These four volumes in this major series... provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded.... A basic set for all academic libraries." -- Library Journal Academic NewswireBerger and White focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, tracing women's history from earliest times to the present. By exploring their place in social, economic, political, and religious life, the authors highlight the changing societal position of women through shifts over time in ideas about gender and the connections between women's public and private spheres.
Women and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Gender, Work & Population in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Aderanti AdepojuPublisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Women's Position and Demographic Change
Author: Nora FedericiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Derived from a conference held by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations, these papers are extremely wide-ranging and explore a variety of ways in which the position of women in a culture affects, or is itself affected by, demographic patterns of population change. Many of the papers are concerned with the links between the changing position of women in many cultures and the demographic transition to a situation of low birth and death rates.
African Women in Towns
Author: Kenneth LittlePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521202374
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This 1973 book analyses the changing position of women in an urban context in sub-Saharan Africa. In spite of the fact that women, at the time of publication, were often important leaders of opinion and in these countries the proportion of women in professional work was at least as large as in Britain, few researchers and even fewer television and newspaper reporters paid them sufficient attention. As the new role of women in Africa was peculiarly a phenomenon of the city, Professor Little's book uses the concept of urbanization in order to analyse the radical changes taking place. He shows how certain women's movements were growing out of the African woman's desire for a new relationship with the man. This leads him to consider the part played by women in the political arena, and women's position not only in monogamous marriage, but also in extra-marital and sexual relationships.
Women and Sustainable Human Development
Author: Maty KontePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030149358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and environmental degradation, agriculture and land rights, access to – and quality of – education, maternal and reproductive health, unpaid care and women’s labor market participation, financial inclusion and women’s political participation. Cross cutting issues such as migration, masculinities and social norms are also addressed in this volume, which is aimed at policy makers, academics, and indeed anyone else interested in the UN Sustainable Development Goal of the empowerment of women and girls.
Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan African Demography
Author: Clifford O. OdimegwuPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317999711
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comprehensive analysis of sub-Saharan African censuses, profiling demographic changes, trends, patterns and consequences in the region. Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, accessible, simple and topical, this volume is perfectly suited to researchers, students and lecturers who are interested in understanding sub-Saharan African population dynamics and issues.
Insights Into Gender Equity, Equality and Power Relations in Sub-saharan Africa
Author: Mansah PrahPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9970252348
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Since gender entered the development discourse in the Seventies, African countries have increasingly taken the concept on board in policy and practice. This concern may be due to either one or a combination of the following factors: the ideological positioning of African countries, demands by their donors and development partners, and demands by organised local groups and NGOs. Gender in the development discourse ought to transform power relations between men and women and shift them to social relations that reflect their equal access to productive resources, opportunities and social and material benefits. The result of such actions should be an achievement of comparable status of women and men. This volume, initiated by OSSREA, seeks to examine in more depth, issues regarding the gender-power imbalance in sub-Saharan African countries, with a specific focus on the eastern and southern African regions. The chapters in this book present research that examines and analyses the effectiveness and efficiency of gender mainstreaming policies, strategies and projects developed and implemented by national and international actors. The themes inter-weave with each other although they address gender issues in specific countries and specific contexts. This can be explained by the shared colonial and post-colonial heritage of African countries. It is useful, therefore, to view the structure of the book as a spiral of inter-connected issues that address similar themes, approaching them from different levels. Purely for ease of reading, the contributions have been organised into three parts, with over arching themes that at first glance may seem not to fit well together. A theme that runs through all the chapters is the persistence of patriarchal values and attitudes in Africa and its constraining effect on the achievement of gender equity and equality.