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Africana womanism in the global age : old challenges, recurrent struggles and new solidarities / Pauline Mateveke, Eventhough Ndlovu, Zifikile Makwavarara, Ezra Chitando, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Africa--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Womanism--Africa.
- Womanism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 319 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Why Africana Womanism? Authenticity and collectivity for Social Justice
- Chapter 2. Africana Womanism: Re-thinking Gender(ed) Relations from a Multi-disciplinary Perspective
- Chapter 3. The Eurocentric gender-phobic neurosis: Potential theoretical threats to African male-female relations
- Chapter 4. The Quest for Sustainable Bases to Anchor Women's Struggles: A Study of the Matrilineal/Matriarchal Tonga Society in Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Chapter 5. The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Recurrent Interface between Disability and Gender: Exploring the Gendered Dimensions Characterising the Impact of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe through an Africana womanist lens
- Chapter 6. The dimension of gender equality in educational institutions: Female teachers and the glass ceiling phenomenon
- Chapter 7. Chikwamboism: Complementing African(a) Womanist/Feminist Thought in Understanding Women's Oppression in Africa
- Chapter 8. Africana Womanist Perspective in the Works of African Francophone Women Writers: The Example of La Tâche de Sang
- Chapter 9. African womanism and gender advocacy: A Critical Analysis of current practices
- Chapter 10. Marriage and Inheritance: An Africana Womanist Rendition of Precolonial and Postcolonial Shona Societies'. Chapter 11. Gender and the media: An exploratory study of sexual harassment of students in the newsroom
- Chapter 12. Transforming gender identities through legal reforms: a critique of the representation of gender reforms in selected post-independence Shona writings in Zimbabwe
- Chapter 13. Home-grown Communicative Competences in Domestic Violence Mitigation: Harnessing Cultural heritage for development.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 16, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9783031998980
- 3031998987
- Publisher Number:
- 90103473188
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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