African Women A Political Economy

by Turshen, Meredeth

• ISBN13: 9780230106758
• ISBN10: 0230106757
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the current debates, to encourage new thinking on these issues, and to indicate areas for needed research. By gaining a theoretical understanding of African women from the perspective of political economy, this text will encourage scholars to evaluate the political and economic aspects of this field of African women's studies critically.

Author Biography

Meredeth Turshen is Professor of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Permissions	p. xi
The Political Economy of Women in Africa	p. 1
Exceptionalism Is a Feminist Issue in Southern Africa	p. 23
Domestic Workers in South Africa: Class, Race, and Gender	p. 35
The Proletarianization of Women in Tanzania	p. 53
Gender and Contract Farming: Growing Tea in Kenya	p. 71
Capitalist Development and Women's Work: A Nigerian Case Study	p. 85
Structural Adjustment and Women in Zimbabwe	p. 97
Women in Mozambique: Gender Struggles and Gender Politics	p. 113
Angolan Women's Congress	p. 129
Strategies for Change: Women and Politics in Eritrea and South Africa	p. 137
The Nigerian Feminist Movement: Lessons from Women in Nigeria (WIN)	p. 155
Isis-WICCE Continues to Bring Women Together	p. 167
Sudanese Women Writing Their Status	p. 173
Tuareg Women, Gender Politics, and Rebellion in Niger Republic	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 195
Contributors	p. 209
Index	p. 213
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