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Beyond women's empowerment in Africa : exploring dislocation and agency / Elinami Veraeli Swai.
Van Pelt Library HQ1798.5 .S89 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swai, Elinami Veraeli.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Tanzania--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women in development.
- Tanzania.
- Social conditions.
- Women in development--Tanzania.
- Women--Africa--Social conditions.
- Africa.
- Women in development--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 220 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Understanding Dislocation: Concepts and Claims
- Women's Knowledge Systems: toward Ambivalence and Silences
- Speaking through Fashion: Khanga as Women's Knowledge System
- Inside Society: The Role of Women's Knowledge Systems in Africa's Development
- The Genesis of Women Disempowerment: the Case of Kilimanjaro
- Knowledge is Power and Power is Knowledge: The Politics of Women's Empowerment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230102484
- 0230102484
- OCLC:
- 435419659
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