Author: Moni NagPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110822164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality
Author: Ali A. MazruiPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761864032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality outlines theories of gender within the intellectual paradigm of the triple heritage: Islam, Africanity, and the West. This book describes the impact of individual contexts and politics on meanings attributed to the human body. The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality explores how men and women relate to each other in monogamous and polygamous marriage, race rivalries, slavery, miscegenation, cultures of procreation, family planning, and the Islamic view of women’s dignity vis-à-vis the Western view of women’s liberty. In doing so, the author and editor present a multifaceted and dynamic theoretical discourse of gender.
Population and Social Organization
Author: Moni NagPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110822164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Gender, Family and Work in Tanzania
Author: Colin CreightonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040289754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzania. Particular attention is paid to the social construction of marriage and to the interplay of family life and gender relations with economic processes and forms of work. Many of the papers are based upon recent ethnographic and survey research; others provide a much needed historical perspective upon the change in family patterns and upon the ways in which gender and family relations are shaped by, and in turn help to shape, wider social institutions and processes.
Custodians of the Land
Author: Gregory H. MaddoxPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821440055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history. In his conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo, a founding father of Tanzanian history, reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance between external causes of change and local initiative in their interpretations of Tanzanian history. He shows that nationalist and Marxist historians of Tanzanian history, understandably preoccupied through the first quarter-century of the country’s post-colonial history with the impact of imperialism and capitalism on East Africa, tended to overlook the initiatives taken by rural societies to transform themselves. Yet there is good reason for historians to think about the causes of change and innovation in the rural communities of Tanzania, because farming and pastoral people have constantly changed as they adjusted to shifting environmental conditions.
All Our People
Author: Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781610913980
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Offers pragmatic solutions to the problems associated with reducing birth rates in developing countries
Population and Development
Author: Geoffrey HawthornPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136882995
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and income distributions in poor societies; the question of whether or not neo-classical macro-economics are sufficient to understand and to try to engineer relations between economies and populations; and the specifics of the relations between fertility and a variety of socio-economic factors in both South Asia and West Africa. The point of the collection is to explain how very far general models can be taken, and to suggest that they cannot be taken as far as those who have tended to ignore the structural complexities of, and differences between, various societies have implied.
Cultural Source Materials for Population Planning in East Africa
Author: The Eastern Africa Journal of Humanities & Sciences
Author: African Abstracts
Author: Anthropology of Breast-Feeding
Author: Vanessa MaherPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040289037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues. The significance of breast-feeding reaches far beyond its biological function; in fact, the authors of this volume argue, there is nothing `natural' about breast-feeding itself. On the contrary, attitudes and practices are socially determined, and breast-feeding has to be seen as an essential element in the cultural construction of sexuality.This volume offers an `ethnography' of breast-feeding by examining cultural norms and practices in a number of European and non-European societies, thus presenting valuable and often astonishing empirical material that is not otherwise readily available. The highly original focus of this volume therefore throws new light on gender and on social relationships in general.