Gendering African social spaces
Subtitle: women, power, and cultural expressions
By: edited by Toyin Falola, Wanjala S. Nasong'o
Series: Carolina Academic Press African world series; Carolina Academic Press African world series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781611637410
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Women; Sex role; Women's rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gendering African social spaces / Toyin Falola & Wanjala S. Nasong'o; title: Gendering the political space in Nigeria : the contradictions between theory and practice / Folasade Olayinka Ifamose; title: The Nwanne paradigm as a liberative panacea to the patriarchal Nigerian Igbo society / Nkea Ifeoma Ofoma Okafor & Felix Munyaradzi Murove; title: The politics of gender mainstreaming and affirmative action in Nigeria / Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai; title: Challenges of Bakassi women in the post-ICJ verdict on the Bakassi peninsula / Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai; title: Women's political empowerment in Nigeria : a reading of Akachi Ezeigbo's The last of the strong ones / Itang Ede Egbung; title: The three bodies : theoretical insights into the albino body in Tanzania / Jane Saffitz; title: Disabilities, violence, and abuse in Nigeria / Emmanuel Olufemi Adeniyi & Olubola C. Dada; title: Violence and victimization of people with mental disabilities in the northwest region of Cameroon / Consoler Teboh; title: Marginalization of women in John Pepper Clark's The wives revolt / Gloria Eme Worugji; title: Crisis of safe motherhood : information awareness, use, and social neglect among rural women in Ogun State, Nigeria / Rachael Folashade Aina; title: Whiteness on blackness : European gazes on black male bodies / Mona Hamedani; title: Gender and architecture : contributions of Nigerian female architects to the built environment / Abimbola O. Asojo; title: Influence of indigenous forms and symbols on religious architecture : a case study of the Catholic Church in Nigeria / Theresa T. Asojo & Abimbola O. Asojo; title: Traditions and politics in the making of an annual Olojo Festival in ile-ife, Nigeria / Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin; title: The okra principle : [re]constructing identities among Nigerians in the U.S. / Veronica Savory McComb; title: The ever evolving Hatshepsut problem : an African queen and the construction, interpretation, and expression of identity / Jay Carriker; title: Religious movements and expression in Nigerian pentecostal churches / Ezekiel K. Akano; title: Female power and authority in selected indigenous pentecostal churches in Badagry Township, Lagos, Nigeria / Hannah Titilayo Kehinde Ishola; title: The history and challenges of women leadership in pentecostal churches in southwestern Nigeria / Rotimi Williams Omotoye.