African women in the development process
By: edited by Nici Nelson.
Contributors: Nelson, Nici.
Publisher: F. Cass
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London, England; Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Women -- Africa -- Social conditions.; Women -- Africa -- Economic conditions.; Women in rural development -- Africa.
Other titles: Journal of development studies.
Description: Nici Nelson has brought together an excellent, if slim, volume of essays, very useful to policymakers, programmers, and development researchers. The collection affirms a new stage in the Women and Development literature, one beyond that of documenting disadvantages of development for women to another which provides means to alleviate such disadvantages. (Nelson's article on organisational and management considera- tions in recruiting and training women staff and in mobilising village women is a prime example of the second approach.) Most selections in the volume are new, applied field- research studies, never before published. They range in method from survey research to ethnographic case studies and project evaluations. The selections are refreshingly speci- fic about both contexts and alternative project management structures and their implications for sound and equitable development approaches. -- Review from http://www.jstor.org (Sep. 14, 2016).
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"This group of studies first appeared in a special issue on African Women in the Development Process of Journal of Development Studies, vol. 17, no. 3."