Beyond women's empowerment in Africa
Subtitle: exploring dislocation and agency
By: Elinami Veraeli Swai.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230102484
Subjects: Women -- Tanzania -- Social conditions; Women in development -- Tanzania; Women -- Africa -- Social conditions; Women in development -- Africa
Description: "This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge. Using case studies, it historicizes the experiences of ordinary women in Tanzania and looks at how empowerment is used to, paradoxically, eviscerate women's knowledge systems"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.