Research Catalog

Title

Negotiating patriarchy and gender in Africa : discourses, practices, and policies / edited by Egodi Uchendu and Ngozi Edeagu.

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Uchendu, Egodi
• Edeagu, Ngozi, 1977-

Description

xv, 332 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring areas such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the colonial Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa--back cover.

Subject

• Male domination (Social structure) > Africa
• Sex discrimination against women > Africa
• Patriarchy > Africa
• Women's rights > Africa
• Women > Africa > Social conditions
• Male domination (Social structure)
• Patriarchy
• Sex discrimination against women
• Women > Social conditions
• Women's rights
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Egodi Uchendu and Ngozi Edeagu -- "Black Peril, White Peril?" Challenging Racialized Gender Hierarchies in Early 20th Century South Africa / Claudia Berger -- Isoken: An Exploration of Differential Enjoyment of Rights and Dignity / Ezinne Ezepue -- Challenging Patriarchy: East African Women's Knowledge Systems / Catherine Cymone Fourshey and Marla L. Jaksch -- "l Paid Lobola!" The Interface between Bride Price and Domestic Violence: A Case Study of Epworth, 2007-2017 / Tasara Muguti and Nyasha Mlambo -- The Interconnection between Youth Gangs, Toxic Masculinity, and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa / G. Nokukhanya Ndhlovu and Pius T. Tanga -- Structuration Theory and Patriarchy System in Africa: The Silent and the Salient in a Lifeless Structure / Samuel O. Okafor -- Patriarchy and Cultural Values in 19th and 20th Century Ghana / Valerie Delali Adjoh-Davoh -- Patriarchy, Inequality, and Housework: An Assessment of Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come / Joyce Agofure -- Women as Composers in Nollywood: Evidence of Absence or Absence of Evidence? / Emaeyak Peter Slyvanus -- An Analysis of Gender Roles around Water and Sanitation in Rural Uganda / Christiana Smyrilli -- Patriarchy, Gender, and Deliberative Democracy: How Does it Play Out in the Ugandan Parliament? / Muzee Hannah and Joyce Bayande M. Endeley -- New Dimensions to Discrimination against Party Women and Women in Power / Victor Chidubem Iwuoha -- Silence and Power in Yejide Kilanko's Daughters Who Walk This Path / Nneoma Onwuegbuchi -- Becoming Man, Becoming Kola Nut: Rite of Passage in Abani's GraceLand / Ali Zamanpour -- Transitional Justice, Sexual Violence, and Women's Status in Africa / Elsabé Boshoff and Louise du Toit -- UN Women and the Pitfalls of Gender Equality and Representation in Nigeria / Raheem Oluwafunminiyi -- Rendered as Political Pawns: Chibok Girls, Ebola, and the Exercise of Political Will / April Petillo and Jane Eggers -- "To be Introduced by my Daughter is a Blessing": Building Rapport between Dads and Daughters to Reduce Early Marriage in Migori County, Kenya / Paula Tavrow, Sixtus Kennedy Otieno and Elias Muindi -- Gender Imbalance and Girl Child Education in Niger State, North-Central Nigeria / Olawale Isaac Yemisi.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-1376

ISBN

• 9781793642042
• 1793642044

LCCN

2021021712

OCLC

1251742188

Title

Negotiating patriarchy and gender in Africa : discourses, practices, and policies / edited by Egodi Uchendu and Ngozi Edeagu.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Uchendu, Egodi, editor.

Edeagu, Ngozi, 1977- editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-1376