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Beyond women's empowerment in Africa : exploring dislocation and agency

Title
Beyond women's empowerment in Africa : exploring dislocation and agency / Elinami Veraeli Swai.
Author
Swai, Elinami Veraeli.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Description
xv, 220 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge. Using case studies, it historicizes the experiences of ordinary women in Tanzania and looks at how empowerment is used to, paradoxically, eviscerate women's knowledge systems"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Women > Tanzania > Social conditions
  • Women in development > Tanzania
  • Women > Africa > Social conditions
  • Women in development > Africa
  • Women in development
  • Women > Social conditions
  • Frau
  • Soziale Situation
  • Soziale Stellung
  • Regionalentwicklung
  • Empowerment
  • Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Tansania
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mary Nyangweso-Warwila -- 1. Understanding Disempowerment: Concepts and Claims -- 2. Women's Knowledge Systems: Toward Ambivalence and Silences -- 3. Speaking through Fashion: Khanga as Women's Knowledge System -- 4. Inside Society: The Role of Women's Knowledge Systems in Africa's Development -- 5. The Genesis of Women Disempowerment: The Case of Kilimanjaro -- 6. Knowledge Is Power and Power Is Knowledge: The Politics of Women's Empowerment -- 7. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780230102484
  • 0230102484
LCCN
2009041840
OCLC
  • ocn435419659
  • 435419659
  • SCSB-14697044
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library