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| Title: | Beyond our imaginations: African women's realities |
| Editor: | Afonja, Simi |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 194 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Ibadan |
| Publisher: | Spectrum Books in association with Safari Books |
| ISBN: | 9780297952; 9789780297954 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Nigeria |
| Subjects: | feminism social conditions empowerment gender roles community development |
| Abstract: | This book on gender and feminism provides an overview of Western and African ideas regarding gender and of participatory methodologies paying particular attention to the exclusion of grassroots feminism from the growing body of knowledge and action. Contents: Introduction: our imagination, their realities - Simi Afonja; Chapter one: Gender and feminism in African development discourse - Simi Afonja; Chapter two: Gender images: the deification of motherhood in Igbo society - Solomon C. Madubuike and Valerie A. Solomon; Chapter three: Enhancing the capacity of women leaders of community organizations towards peace building in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria: the role of women's groups in conflict resolution - Yomi Oruwari; Chapter four: Classical and contemporary categories of participatory learning approaches - A.O. Olutayo and E.A. Fayankinu; Chapter five: Gender and leadership in market associations: a study of Bodija Market, Ibadan, Nigeria - Ifeanyi P. Onyeonoru, Taiwo Eneji and Cordelia Chiagozie; Chapter six: The praxis of gender and community development in Nigeria - Okunola, R.A. and Aluko, Yetunde; Chapter seven: Renaissance of women's interest in the monarchy - F.A. Olasupo. [ASC Leiden abstract] |