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| Title: | Transforming Female Identities: Women's Organizational Forms in West Africa |
| Editor: | Evers Rosander, Eva |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Issue: | 31 |
| Pages: | 243 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Seminar proceedings from the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (ISSN 0281-0018) |
| City of publisher: | Uppsala |
| Publisher: | Nordiska Afrikainstitutet |
| ISBN: | 9171064036 |
| Geographic terms: | West Africa Ghana Cameroon Nigeria Senegal Mali |
| Subjects: | 1993 women women's organizations conference papers (form) Cultural Roles organizations Labor and Employment Development and Technology Marital Relations and Nuptiality Religion and Witchcraft Sex Roles |
| Abstract: | This is a collection of papers both from a conference held in Cameroon in early 1993 on women and organization in West Africa and by a few researchers who were invited to the conference but were unable to attend. The papers deal with women's associations as platforms or spaces for a possible transformation of female identities. There are chapters on women in trade unions and national organizations in Ghana (Prudence Woodford-Berger), Kano, Nigeria (Hussaina Abdullah), and Lagos, Nigeria (Gunilla Andrœ); on women in development associations in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon (Anastasie Idole Mekounde), Senegal (Ndèye Coumba Fall Diop), and Mali (Jasmine Abel Jessen); and on women in religious associations in Nigeria (Esther Shebi), Jos, Nigeria (Ulrika Bamidele Erlandsson), and Senegal (Penda Mbow, Eva Evers Rosander). Other chapters explore the relationship between income and the nature of sexual relationships among women in Ghana (Akosua Adomako Ampofo), the role of magic and love among women on the road to higher education in Cameroon (Lisbet Holtedahl), and the transformation of female identities among the Fulbe in Cameroon (Mahmoudou Djingui). The articles by Mekounde, Diop, Jessen, Mbow, Rosander and Djingui are in French. |
