Gender, Economies and Entitlements in Africa

Authors

Elizabeth Annan-Yao
Zenebe N. Bashaw
Christine G. Ishengoma
Godisang Mookodi
Grace Ongile holds
Charmaine Pereira
Manthiba Phalane
Richard Ssewakiryanga
Sylvia Tamale
Chris Okechukwu Uroh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.281

Keywords:

Globalization , Gender-Justice, Nigerian Experience, Gender, Economies, Entitlements , Africa

Synopsis

This theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded book draws extensively on feminist methodologies to discuss gender, economies and entitlements in Africa. It deals critically with a broad range of themes that highlight the structural insensitivities, stereotypes, injustices and inequalities that women are often victims of, despite their significant contributions to household and national economies throughout Africa. Among the issues covered are: gender relations in the family, formal education and health; gender and accessibility to resources; women’s experiences of citizenship; sex identities and sex work; and globalisation, trade and gender. The book captures how, despite phenomenal structural constraints, women as economic agents have refused to celebrate victimhood. The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African social science research with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for the emergence of new talents to flower.

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Author Biographies

Elizabeth Annan-Yao

is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Cocody-Abidjan, Deputy Director of Research at the Institute of Ethno-Sociology of the same university, and co-edits the African Sociological Review. She is specialized in Population and Development with emphasis on Migrations, Reproductive
Health and Education.

Zenebe N. Bashaw

 is at the Institute of Development Research (IDR) in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

Christine G. Ishengoma

is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Education and Extension in the Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. She is also the Director of a Tanzanian NGO, the Women Poverty alleviation. Her areas of interest for research are Gender Issues, Food Security, Community
Nutrition, Processing and Adding value Crops, Poverty Reduction Issues, Economic and Marketing.

Godisang Mookodi

is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology in the University of Botswana. Her areas of research, teaching and publication include: gender relations and identities, development and economic change, domestic units (households and family structure). Her contribution to gender discourse in African
Social Sciences, policy and practice is aimed at fostering a recognition of the important interface between macro-societal processes and individual agency within different societal contexts.

Grace Ongile holds

a PhD Degree in Economics. Currently she is a Senior Programme Officer at the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), Harare, Zimbabwe. She has been a coordinator of a research program, International
Trade and Gender in East Africa.

Charmaine Pereira

is an independent scholar based in Abuja, Nigeria. Her research interests include feminism and women’s struggles, the state and civil society, and sexual harassment in Nigerian universities. She has taught at universities in Britain and Nigeria, and is currently the National Coordinator of the Network for Women’s Studies in Nigeria.

Manthiba Phalane

teaches at the University of Venda for Science and Technology, Northern Provence, South Africa.

Richard Ssewakiryanga

currently works as a Government Consultant with the Government of Uganda. He is a social scientist with postgraduate training in gender studies and social anthropology from Makerere University in Uganda. He has also pursued a number of research fellowships at Northwestern University
(USA), University of Sussex (UK), and Legon University (Ghana). His research work has focused mainly on gender and development issues, poverty and policy processes and cultural studies.

Sylvia Tamale

is a feminist activist and senior lecturer at Makerere University's Law Faculty in Uganda. She has published widely on a variety of topics, including her groundbreaking book, When Hens Begin to Crow: Gender and Parliamentary Politics in Uganda (Westview Press, 1999).

Chris Okechukwu Uroh

was a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Before his sudden death in 2003, he published widely and edited a book with Samir Amin entitled Africa and the Challenge of
Development.

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July 23, 2004

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