Research Catalog

Title

Gendering African social spaces : women, power, and cultural expressions / edited by Toyin Falola, Wanjala S. Nasong'o.

Publication

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Falola, Toyin
• Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala

Description

xxv, 304 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Series Statement

Carolina Academic Press African world series

Uniform Title

Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Subjects

• Women's rights > Africa
• Women > Africa > Social conditions
• Women > Africa > Economic conditions
• Sex role > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Gendering African social spaces: Introduction / Toyin Falola & Wanjala S. Nasong'o -- Gendering the political space in Nigeria: the contradictions between theory and reality / Folasade O. Ifamose -- The Nwanne paradigm as liberative panacea to the patriarchal Nigerian Igbo society / Nkea Ifeoma Okafor & Felix Munyaradzi Murove -- The politics of gender mainstreaming and affirmative action in Nigeria / Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai -- Challenges of Bakassi women in the post-ICJ verdict on the Bakassi peninsula / Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai -- Women's political empowerment in Nigeria: a reading of Akachi Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong Ones / Itang Ede Egbung -- The three bodies: theoretical insights into the albino body in Tanzania / Jane Saffitz -- Disabilities, violence and abuse in Nigeria / Emmanuel O. Adeniyi & Christianah O. Dada -- Violence and victimization of people with mental disabilities in the northwest region of Cameroon / Consoler Teboh -- Marginalization of women in John Pepper Clark's The Wives Revolt / Gloria Eme Worugji -- Crisis of safe motherhood: information awareness, use, and social neglect among rural women in Ogun State, Nigeria / Rachael Folashade Aina -- Whiteness on blackness: European gazes on black male bodies / Mona Hamedani -- Gender and architecture: contributions of Nigerian female architects to the built environment / Abimbola O. Asojo -- Influence of indigenous forms and symbols on religious architecture: a case study of the Catholic Church in Nigeria / Theresa Asojo & Abimbola O. Asojo -- Traditions and politics in the making of an annual Olójó Festival in ilé-ifè, Nigeria / Enoch Olújídé Gbádégesin -- The okra principle: [re]constructing ethnic identities among Nigerians in the U.S. / Veronica Savory McComb -- The ever-evolving Hatshepsut problem: an African queen and the construction, interpretation, and expression of identity / Jay Carriker -- Religious movements and expression in Nigerian churches / Ezekiel K. Akano -- Female power and authority in selected indigenous pentecostal churches in Badagry Township, Lagos, Nigeria / Hannah Titilayo Kehinde Ishola -- The history and challenges of women's leadership in pentecostal churches in southwestern Nigeria / Rotimi Williams Omotoye.

Call Number

Sc E 16-196

ISBN

• 9781611637410
• 1611637414

LCCN

2015032391

OCLC

936010468

Title

Gendering African social spaces : women, power, and cultural expressions / edited by Toyin Falola, Wanjala S. Nasong'o.

Publisher

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Carolina Academic Press African world series

Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Falola, Toyin, editor.

Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-196