New gender studies : from Cameroon and the Caribbean / editors Joyce B. Endeley ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Endeley, Joyce Bayande Mbongo, 1956-

Goodridge, Richard A.

Barriteau, Eudine.

Series:

Issues in gender and development ; 1.

Issues in gender and development ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Barbados--Case studies.

Women.

Women's studies.

Women in development.

Women and religion.

Barbados.

Africa.

Cameroon.

Women--Cameroon--Case studies.

Women and religion--Cameroon.

Women in development--Barbados.

Women--Social conditions.

Women's studies--Africa.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xv, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buea, Cameroon : Dept. of Women and Gender Studies, University of Buea, 2004.

Summary:

This collection of studies is the first title published by the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Buea, Cameroon. The volume provides examples of research undertaken in different parts of Cameroon on poverty reduction, women plantation workers, gender relations within the University, and on masculinity in the city of Douala. It includes contributions on the efforts of local faith communities to women; the quality of life and empowerment of women; the voices representing a wide range of men and women of the faith communities. The study further considers the role of international NGOs and work done by the church, and concludes with two papers on labor relations in Barbados.

Contents:

Religious bodies, women and gender studies in poverty alleviation : denominational approaches and the way forward / Richard Goodridge, Joyce Endeley, Charles Fonchingong and Victor Cheo

Women in public sector unionism in Barbados, 1944-1975 / Richard Goodridge

Gendered relations in a post-colonial/modernizing Caribbean state / V. Eudine Barriteau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0954538463

OCLC:

54883683