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; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Carolina Academic Press African world series

Uniform Title

Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Gendering African social spaces / Toyin Falola & Wanjala S. Nasong'o -- Gendering the political space in Nigeria : the contradictions between theory and practice / Folasade Olayinka Ifamose -- The Nwanne paradigm as a liberative panacea to the patriarchal Nigerian Igbo society / Nkea Ifeoma Ofoma 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 Olufemi Adeniyi & Olubola C. 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 T. Asojo & Abimbola O. Asojo -- Traditions and politics in the making of an annual Olojo Festival in ile-ife, Nigeria / Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin -- The okra principle : [re]constructing 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 pentecostal 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 leadership in pentecostal churches in southwestern Nigeria / Rotimi Williams Omotoye.

ISBN

• 9781611637410
• 1611637414

LCCN

^^2015032391

OCLC

• 936010468
• SCSB-11081334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library