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Author: Maitseo Bolaane Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press ISBN: 9781869144272 Category : Botswana Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Botswana Women Write is the first anthology to cover a broad spectrum of writing by and about Batswana women. It provides a record of their lives both now and in the past, and of their thoughts about the joyful and difficult issues they face. At the same time, it reflects the richness and challenges of their particular social, political, and cultural context. The fictional worlds created in the anthology echo those documented in the non-fiction selections, and they speak to the lived experiences of women in Botswana and around the world: family tensions, sexual conflict, domestic abuse, poverty, and single motherhood are explored alongside descriptions of sexual pleasure, intellectual engagement, expressions of joy, and assertions of a political presence. The writers include women with international reputations (such as Bessie Head, Unity Dow, Lauri Kubuitsile, and Tjawangwa Dema), women being published for the first time, and women who probably never expected to find their words reproduced in print. This book also covers a wide range of genres, from archival letters, court statements and speeches to journalism, drama, stories, and poems. It reflects the oral traditions that are at the root of Tswana culture as well as experimental and more conventional forms of literary style."--Back cover.
Author: Maitseo Bolaane Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press ISBN: 9781869144272 Category : Botswana Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Botswana Women Write is the first anthology to cover a broad spectrum of writing by and about Batswana women. It provides a record of their lives both now and in the past, and of their thoughts about the joyful and difficult issues they face. At the same time, it reflects the richness and challenges of their particular social, political, and cultural context. The fictional worlds created in the anthology echo those documented in the non-fiction selections, and they speak to the lived experiences of women in Botswana and around the world: family tensions, sexual conflict, domestic abuse, poverty, and single motherhood are explored alongside descriptions of sexual pleasure, intellectual engagement, expressions of joy, and assertions of a political presence. The writers include women with international reputations (such as Bessie Head, Unity Dow, Lauri Kubuitsile, and Tjawangwa Dema), women being published for the first time, and women who probably never expected to find their words reproduced in print. This book also covers a wide range of genres, from archival letters, court statements and speeches to journalism, drama, stories, and poems. It reflects the oral traditions that are at the root of Tswana culture as well as experimental and more conventional forms of literary style."--Back cover.
Author: Mercy Machisa Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 0986988030 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 140
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Over two thirds of women in Botswana (67%) have experienced some form of gender violence in their lifetime including partner and non-partner violence. A smaller, but still high, proportion of men admit to perpetrating violence against women. Inspired by the Commonwealth Plan of Action on Gender and Development (2005-2015) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development target of halving GBV by 2015, this research project provides the first comprehensive and comparative baseline assessment of the extent, effects and response to GBV in Botswana. A representative sample of 639 women and 590 men across Botswana completed questionnaires in their preferred local language on behaviour and experiences related to GBV. Researchers asked women about their experience of violence perpetrated by men while men were asked about their perpetration of violence against women.
Author: Roma Harris Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 200
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Ordinary citizens face a frustrating and increasingly complex maze of human service agencies when they seek help for everyday problems, even though one stop information and referral centers have been established to facilitate information seeking in many communities. This book explores the relationship between the information needs of battered women and the information response provided through social networks in six communities of varying size. The book is based on an award-winning study, in which 543 women described their knowledge of the problem of woman abuse and what kinds of information resources would be helpful to an abused woman. In the second phase of the study, 179 interviews were conducted with service providers identified by these women as likely sources of help. A comparison of the interviews demonstrates that the response of information delivery systems does not adequately meet the needs and expectations of those women who would seek such services. The final chapters of the volume focus on the implications of this study for the design of social service systems.
Author: Elfreda A. Chatman Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 178
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Using the profiles of women living in a retirement community, the author explores the information and social worlds of aging women. The focus of the study is the effects of aging on help-seeking behaviors. The author examines ways in which older women search for information; she found several areas of need, including failing health, financial concerns, and loneliness. For many of the women, death was not a problematic area. The author also discovered that the most critical areas of need were not shared with others. In fact, the residents chose to conceal the most dire needs for assistance. Surprisingly, the retirement community played a major role in this process. The relationships between help-seeking behaviors and information policy is extensively discussed. The role that information professionals can play in bringing information to populations such as the one examined here adds insight to the studies of information use and user needs.
Author: Anne M. O. Griffiths Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226308739 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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Anne Griffiths originally went to Botswana to establish a university course in family law. But independent fieldwork in Botswana convinced her of the central role of the traditional customary legal system that stands alongside the colonial common law of courts and magistrates she was examining in her course. In the first comparative work on these two systems, Griffiths shows how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations that heavily favor males. Griffiths's analysis is based on careful observation of how people actually experience the law as well as the more standard tools of statutes and cases familiar to Western legal scholars. She explains how women's access to law is determined by social relations over which they have little control. In this powerful feminist critique of law and anthropology, Griffiths shows how law and custom are inseparable for Kwena women. Both colonial common law and customary law pose comparable and constant challenges to Kwena women's attempts to improve their positions in society.
Author: Caroline Kline Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252053354 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 335
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Winner of the Mormon History Association Best International Book Award The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with longstanding tensions surrounding gender and race. Yet women of color in the United States and across the Global South adopt and adapt the faith to their contexts, many sharing the high level of satisfaction expressed by Latter-day Saints in general. Caroline Kline explores the ways Latter-day Saint women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the United States navigate gender norms, but also how their moral priorities and actions challenge Western feminist assumptions. Kline analyzes these traditional religious women through non-oppressive connectedness, a worldview that blends elements of female empowerment and liberation with a broader focus on fostering positive and productive relationships in different realms. Even as members of a patriarchal institution, the women feel a sense of liberation that empowers them to work against oppression and against alienation from both God and other human beings. Vivid and groundbreaking, Mormon Women at the Crossroads merges interviews with theory to offer a rare discussion of Latter-day Saint women from a global perspective.
Author: Gisela G. Geisler Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute ISBN: 9789171065155 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 248
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This study looks at womens stuggle in Southern Africa where the last ten years have seen the most pervasive success stories on the African continent.Tracing the history of womens involvement in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, the book analyses post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies employed by womens movements to gain a foothold in politics.
Author: Emily Bridger Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1847012639 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 267
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Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.
Author: Maitseo Bolaane
Author: Maitseo Bolaane
Author: Mercy Machisa
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Author: Roma Harris
Author: Elfreda A. Chatman
Author: Eva Procek
Author: Anne M. O. Griffiths
Author: Caroline Kline
Author: Gisela G. Geisler
Author: Emily Bridger