The authors focus on women’s activism throughout Africa within a transnational and cross-cultural context. This edition expands traditional concepts of activism and adds to a broader awareness of how gender is articulated within social movements, governments and other social institutions.
This Volume is a joint production with the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS), Vo. 10(1), 2008:
http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol10/iss1/
Table of Contents
Special Issue |
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| Editorial | |
| Kathryn Russell, Colleen Kattau | |
| Women and Leadership Positions: Social and Cultural Barriers to Success | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Josephine Kiamba | |
| Drawing from the Wells of Culture: Grace Onyango and the Kenyan Political Scene (1964-1983) | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Phoebe Musandu | |
| The Autonomy of Ugandan Women’s Organizations: How it Matters in Creating and Maintaining a Dependable Democracy | ABSTRACT PDF HTML |
| Caroline Tushabe | |
| A Puppet on a String: The Manipulation and Nationalization of the Female Body in the “Female Circumcision Crisis” of Colonial Kenya | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Sara Boulanger | |
| Accessing Housing Finance in South Africa: The Role of Women Activism | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke Uzodike | |
| Acceptance: Living With HIV/AIDS: An Interview with Video Producer Paul van der Veur | |
| Jean Young | |
General Issue |
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| Still Seeking for Something”: The Unspeakable (Loss) in “Passing” by Nella Larsen | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Agnieszka Mrozik | |
| Gender and Ethnicity in Banda’s Malawi | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Edwin Segal | |
Book Reviews |
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| From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua by Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Duke University Press, 2005 | |
| Brett Troyan | |
| Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin Group, New York, 2006 | |
| Elizabeth Boze | |
| Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria by Lisa A. Lindsay, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 2003 | |
| Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo | |
| Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway, Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL, 2007. | |
| Tim Gerhard |