Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

Egodi Uchendu; Ngozi Edeagu

doi:10.5771/9781793642059

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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 regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the 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.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4204-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4205-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 336
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Gender Discourse and Domination No access
2. Women, Work and Exploitation No access
3. Women in Power and Male Dominance No access
4. Policy Implementation No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. The Black Peril Narrative in South Africa No access
  2. Early Twentieth-Century Commissions and the Black Peril No access
  3. Criticism and Alternatives No access
  4. Dissecting the Black Peril No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Methodology No access
  2. Art and the Society No access
  3. Critical Discourse Analysis of Isoken No access
  4. Critical Discourse Analysis of Hope Dances No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. African Feminist Scholarship and Patriarchy No access
  2. Historical Sites of Leadership No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Methodology and Theoretical Framework No access
  2. An Overview of VAW No access
  3. Facts about VAW in Epworth No access
  4. Attitudes toward Domestic Violence No access
  5. Participants’ Knowledge, Experiences, and Views on Domestic Violence No access
  6. Women’s Understanding of Domestic Violence No access
  7. Factors that Sustain Abusive Marriages No access
  8. The Most Pervasive Form of Violence Women are Exposed to in Marriages No access
  9. Perceptions Regarding Bride Wealth Payment and Domestic Violence No access
  10. Reflections on the Study Findings No access
  11. Conclusion No access
  12. Notes No access
  13. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Literature Review No access
  2. Methodology No access
  3. The Findings No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
6. 1. Structuration and Human-Induced Slavery in the Social System No access
  2. Pre- and Post-Colonial African Women: Potential Opportunity for Gender Equality/Patriarchy No access
  3. Women as the Rejuvenating Force to Patriarchy System in Africa No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Practice of Pawning in Ghana after 1874 No access
  2. Colonial Government Response to End Pawning in the Gold Coast No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Marxist Feminism: A Theoretical Discourse No access
  2. Women and Housework in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good will Come No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. An Overview of the Nollywood Film Music Industry No access
  2. Chimere Emejuobi and the Zone of Possible Agreement No access
  3. Discussion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Literature Review No access
  2. Methodology No access
  3. Discussion of Gender Roles in WASH: Causes and Impacts No access
  4. Recommendations for Researchers and Practitioners No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Background No access
  2. A Theoretical Review of the Literature No access
  3. Methodology No access
  4. Patriarchal Manifestations and Participant’s Voices No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Women and Internal Party Politics No access
  2. Second-Generation Discrimination against Women in Power No access
  3. Representation of Women in Elective Positions in Nigeria No access
  4. Women’s Political Participation in the 2015 Election in Nigeria No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. The Poetics of Poststructuralism No access
  2. Conclusion No access
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  4. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Masculinity, Liminality, and Death No access
  2. Becoming Man, Becoming Kola Nut No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Sexual Violence against Women in Conflict No access
  2. Women’s Citizenship and Human Rights in Conflict and Peace No access
  3. The Principles and Practices of TJ in Addressing Women’s Citizenship Status No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. A Brief Note on the Traditional Role of Nigerian Women No access
  2. Recognizing Rights of Women: From CEDAW to UN Women No access
  3. Political Representation in the Midst of Glass Ceilings No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Aggressive with Disease, Meek with Abductors No access
  2. Context: An Aggressive Virus and Gender-Based Violence No access
  3. Addressing Gendered Violence Requires Empowering Women and Communities No access
  4. Local Action is Integral to Realizing International Rights and Goals No access
  5. Local Communities Play an Important Role in Building Political Will No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Efforts to End Early Marriage No access
  2. Situation in Kenya No access
  3. Survey of Three Villages No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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5. 1. Gender No access
  2. Education No access
  3. Girl Child No access
  4. Overview of Girl Child Education in Nigeria No access
  5. Barriers to Girl Child Education in Niger State No access
  6. Girl Child Education as a Panacea for Human and Societal Development No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 319 - 324
About the Contributors No access Pages 325 - 336