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Women and the State in Africa / ed. by Kathleen A. Staudt, Jane L. Parpart.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (229 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781555870829
  • 9781685853037
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Women and the State m Africa -- PART 1 Theoretical Debates -- 2 Gender Relations, Class Formation, and the Colonial State in Africa -- 3 Gender, Class, and State in Africa -- PART 2 Case Studies -- 4 Kaba and Khaki: Women and the Militarized State in Nigeria -- 5 State, Peasantry, and Agrarian Crisis in Zaire: Does Gender Make a Difference? -- 6 "This Is an Unforgettable Business": Colonial State Intervention in Urban Tanzania -- 7 Women and the State: Zambia's Development Policies and Their Impact on Women -- 8 The Black Market and Women Traders in Lusaka, Zambia -- 9 Zimbabwe: State, Class, and Gendered Models of Land Resettlement -- 10 Gender Perspectives on African States -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Explores women's access to the apparatus of the state in Africa, the consequences of their underrepresentation, and the mechanisms they have evolved to cope with their slim hold on the levers of power.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781685853037

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Women and the State m Africa -- PART 1 Theoretical Debates -- 2 Gender Relations, Class Formation, and the Colonial State in Africa -- 3 Gender, Class, and State in Africa -- PART 2 Case Studies -- 4 Kaba and Khaki: Women and the Militarized State in Nigeria -- 5 State, Peasantry, and Agrarian Crisis in Zaire: Does Gender Make a Difference? -- 6 "This Is an Unforgettable Business": Colonial State Intervention in Urban Tanzania -- 7 Women and the State: Zambia's Development Policies and Their Impact on Women -- 8 The Black Market and Women Traders in Lusaka, Zambia -- 9 Zimbabwe: State, Class, and Gendered Models of Land Resettlement -- 10 Gender Perspectives on African States -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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Explores women's access to the apparatus of the state in Africa, the consequences of their underrepresentation, and the mechanisms they have evolved to cope with their slim hold on the levers of power.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)