Body politics and women citizens
Subtitle: African experiences
By: Ann Schlyter, editor ; Lucy Kondwani Chipeta ... [et al.]
Contributors: Research Conference on "Body Politics and Gender Justice" (2009 : Cape Town, South Africa)
Series: Sida studies -- no. 24; Sida studies -- no. 24.
Publisher: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9789158641006
Subjects: Social conditions; Employment; Women's rights; Sex role; Women
Notes: "This volume is based on papers originally presented at the research conference "Body Politics and Gender Justice", held in Cape Town in February 2009."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ann Schlyter; title: Contesting illegality: women in the informal copper business on the Zambian copperbelt / Patience Mususa; title: Women coping with change: urban poverty and everyday politics in northern Mozambique / Margareta Espling; title: Bodies at work in Volvo plants in Sweden and South Africa / Paula Mählck; title: Polygamous families in urban Malawi: sharing housing and resources / Lucy Kondwani Chipeta; title: Essential motherhood: implications for law and population policy / Mulela Margaret Munalula; title: Teenage pregnancy and HIV in South Africa / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi; title: From pain to virtue: clitoridectomy and other ordeals in the creation of a female person / Lisen Dellenborg; title: Bearing the pain: changing views of the meaning and morality of suffering / Maria Malmström; title: Women in the back seat in Malian citizenship / Assitan Diallo; title: Gendered spectacle: new terrains of struggle in South Africa / Desiree Lewis; title: Postscript: challenges to rights-based approaches in support of women citizens / Ann Schlyter.