Gender relations in Cameroon : multidisciplinary perspectives / editor, Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yenshu, Emmanuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Cameroon.

Sex role.

Gender identity--Cameroon.

Gender identity.

Women--Cameroon--Economic conditions.

Women.

Women--Cameroon--Social conditions.

Women--Education--Cameroon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines some facets of gender relations in Cameroon symmetry in male-female relationships, womens access to land in traditional society, socialization into gender roles through language textbooks in schools, the association life of women, widowhood and inheritance, social capital and entrepreneurship, husband-wife relations in early German colonial encounters as socially and historically constructed realities from a multidisciplinary perspective, bringing together some social sciences and humanities. The studies point to the fact that these relations are as much rooted in traditions and customs fashioned in several benchmark epochs in African history arming women with formidable social and cultural capitals or making of them victims of social structures over which they have little control as they are constantly evolving in contemporary times and transforming women into agents in their own affairs as well as those of the new societies in the making.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Contents ""; ""General Introduction""; ""1. Pour une socio-anthropologie des rapports sociaux de sexe: propos d'un modele symetrique ""; ""2. Le monde du langage et le langage du monde : se construire; partir d'une faille""; ""3. Associations d'entraide « pouakone » et developpement communautaire dans le Noun""; ""4. Gender and Rural Economy in the Wimbum Society, Cameroon: Perceptions, Practices and the Land Question""; ""5. Female Inheritance between Customary Law and Modern Jurisprudence: the Case of Cameroon""

""6. Gender, Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Cameroon""""7. Ã criture coloniale et situation de la femme: Une lecture analytique de Durchs unbekannte Kamerun. Beitrege zur deutschen Kulturarbeit in Afrika de Lene Haase""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Back cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789956728275

9956728276

9789956728145

9956728144

9781283638098

1283638096

9789956728749

9956728748

OCLC:

905997565