Women and the State in Africa /

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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Chazan, Naomi,
Fatton, Robert,
Grundfest Schoepf, Brooke,
Jacobs, Susan,
Lovett, Margot,
Mba, Nina,
Mbilinyi, Marjorie,
Munachonga, Monica L.,
Newbury, Catharine,
Parpart, Jane L.,
Staudt, Kathleen A.,
Tranberg Hansen, Karen,
HerausgeberIn:
Parpart, Jane L.,
Staudt, Kathleen A. ,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1989
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (229 p.)
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Table of 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

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