• Part I: Introduction.-
• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part II: Climate Change and Gender.-
• Chapter 2: Climate Change, Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment.-
• Chapter 3: Weather Shocks and Women empowerment.-
• Chapter 4: Gender and Climate Change: Towards Comprehensive Policy Options.- Part III: Women's Land Rights and Agricultural Productivity in East Africa.-
• Chapter 5: Women's Land Rights and Agricultural Productivity in Uganda.-
• Chapter 6: Land Tenure, Gender, and Productivity in Ethiopia and Tanzania.- Part IV: Maternal Health and Education.-
• Chapter 7: Towards Achieving Equity in Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries: Progress and Remaining Challenges in Priority Countries.-
• Chapter 8: Barriers to and Facilitators of Contraceptive Use among Married Adolescent Girls in six Sub-Saharan African Countries.-
• Chapter 9: Achieving Gender Equality in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Challenges in Moving from the MDGs to the SDGs.-
• Chapter 10: Gender Disparities in Access to and Use of ICT in Senegal.- Part V: Labor Market Participation and Unpaid Care Work.-
• Chapter 11: Gender Gaps in Employment and Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review.-
• Chapter 12: Child Health and Relatives' Employment in South Africa: The Gendered Effect beyond Parents.-
• Chapter 13: Unpaid Care Work Inequality and Women's Employment Outcomes in Senegal.-
• Chapter 14: When Women go to the City: African Women's Rural-Urban Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals.- Part VI: Women's Bargaining Power and their Households' Well-being.-
• Chapter 15: Women's Empowerment and Child Obesity: Evidence in Comoros, Malawi, and Mozambique.-
• Chapter 16: Women, Inclusive Finance and the Quality of Life: Evidence from Zambia.-
• Chapter 17: Women's Bargaining Power and Households Living Standards in West Africa: Evidence from Benin, Togo and Mali.- Part VII: Women in Politics and Society.-
• Chapter 18: Female Policy Makers and Women's Wellbeing in Africa.-
• Chapter 19: Pathways to Political Empowerment: An Examination of Factors that Enable Women to Access Political Leadership Positions in Kenya.-
• Chapter 20: It is all about Power: Corruption, Patriarchy and the Political Participation of Women.-
• Chapter 21: Facts, Narrative and Action on Gender Equality in Modern Africa: A Sociological Approach to Priorities And Omissions.- Part VIII: Conclusion.-
• Chapter 22: Conclusion.
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This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and environmental degradation, agriculture and land rights, access to - and quality of - education, maternal and reproductive health, unpaid care and women's labor market participation, financial inclusion and women's political participation. Cross cutting issues such as migration, masculinities and social norms are also addressed in this volume, which is aimed at policy makers, academics, and indeed anyone else interested in the UN Sustainable Development Goal of the empowerment of women and girls.
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• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Acronyms
• Foreword
• Introduction: In the Traditions of Professor Victor C. Uchendu and Professor Ifi Amadiume: African Women and the Challenge of Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
• 1. The Mobile Ecosystem and Internet Access on the African Content: Asymmetry and the Gender Digital Divide
• 2. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Zimbabwe
• 3. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Tanzania, 2010 and 2015-2016
• 4. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Malawi, 2010 and 2015-2016
• 5. ICT, Diffusion of Knowledge to Women, Gender Inclusive Governance, and Impacts on Women's Lives in Three African Nations
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• References
• Biography.
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How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control, regulation quality, government effectiveness, political stability/no violence, and voice and accountability. However, these indicators fall short: they do note emphasize gender equity or pro-poor policies. Writing from an African feminist scholar-activist perspective, Assata Zerai emphasizes the voices of women in two ways: (1) she examines how women's access to ICT makes a difference to the success of people-centered governance structures; and (2) she demonstrates how African women's scholarship, too often marginalized, must be used to expand and redefine the goals and indicators of democratice governance in African countries. Challenging the status quo that praises the contributions of cell phones to the diffusion of knowledge and resultant better governance in Africa, this book is an important read for scholars of politics and technology, gender and politics, and African Studies.
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• Introduction - Mariana P. Candido and Adam Jones PROPERTY Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery: Women, Trade and Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790-1812 - Suzanne Schwarz Women, Land and Power in the Lower Gambia River Region - Assan Sarr Women and Food Production: Agriculture, Demography and Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-century Catumbela - Esteban A. Salas Women's Material World in Nineteenth-Century Benguela - Mariana P. Candido VULNERABILITY Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660-1860 - Adam Jones Parrying Palavers: Coastal Akan Women and the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century - Natalie Everts To be Female and Free: Mapping Mobility and Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry and Abeokuta 1853-1865 - Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence: Household and Identity in the Life and Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos - Kristin Mann MOBILITY From Child Slave to Madam Esperance: One Woman's Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675-1707 - Colleen E Kriger Writing the History of the Trans-African Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic - Lorelle Semley Spouses and Commercial Partners: Immigrant Men and Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831-1859 - Vanessa S. Oliveira Women, Family and Daily Life in Senegal's Nineteenth-century Atlantic Towns - Hilary Jones.
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While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the first time, the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its curtailment. Mariana P. Candido is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame; Adam Jones recently retired as Professor of African History and Culture History at the University of Leipzig. In association with The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
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• Part I. Representations of and by African women. Front and center on the global stage: representations of and by African women in contemporary novels / Elizabeth M. Perego
• Contrasting visions: filmic representations of African women / Cajetan Iheka
• Part II. Religion and politics. Politico-religious systems and African women's power / Nwando Achebe
• Colonialism and resistance: protests and national liberation movements / Kathleen Sheldon
• Religious fundamentalisms and women in contemporary Africa / Ousseina Alidou
• African women organize / Alicia Decker and Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois
• Women's political activism in contemporary Africa / Aili Mari Tripp
• Part III. Economy and society. African women in the real economy: prehistoric, precolonial, colonial, and contemporary transitions / Gracia Clark
• Women and slavery: continuities and changes / Claire Robertson
• Education for African girls: still striving for equality / Josephine Beoku-Betts
• Urbanizing women: merging the personal, political, and spatial / Teresa Barnes
• Women and the new African diaspora / Cassandra Veney
• Part IV. Love, marriage, and women's bodies, past and present. Love, marriage and families in Africa / Rachel Jean-Baptiste and Emily Burrill
• Gender and sexuality: gradations, contestations / Signe Arnfred
• Violence against women: households, wars, refugees, and resistance / Henrietta Ballah and December Green
• African women and health: evolving challenges / Karen Flint.

Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease.
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• Introduction
• Part 1: Cameroon
• 1. Indomitable Lions
• 2. Do No Harm
• 3. More Fear Than Joy
• 4. Human Rights Feeds on Horror
• 5. Love Falls On Us
• Part 2: Cote d'Ivoire
• 6. Here in the Realm of Art
• 7. L'Affaire pedophilie
• 8. A Life for Two
• 9. Winners and Losers
• 10. Brahima du jardin
• Part 3: Liberia
• 11. Everybody Will Carry Their Own Burden
• 12. Anti-Liberian, Anti-God
• 13. Let That Awareness Be Created
• 14. Grown Woman
• 15. Finding Our Own Champions.
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In 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared "Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights, " but still today there is little consensus on how to advance those rights beyond the U.S. and Europe. The fact is that international LGBT activism and allies have created winners and losers. In Africa those who easily identify with the identities of the global movement find support, funding and care. Those whose sexualities don't align so neatly don't. In this faithful and moving investigation, award winning journalist Robbie Corey-Boulet shows that LGBT liberation does not look the same in Africa as it does in the United States or Europe. At a time when there is a groundswell of interest in LGBT life in Africa and attempts at reversing LGBT rights across much of the `developed' world Corey-Boulet lays bare past failures. To the extent that there exists a right way to engage on LGBT issues in Africa-and, indeed, worldwide-Love Falls on Us is for those looking to learn what it is.
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• Un amour tyrannique
• La jeunesse africaine est un prétexte
• Entre terrorisme et immigration : un désespoir criminel
• Smarts, accusés, levez-vous,
• Pour un éloge du politique
• Sur la route du futur.

"L'auteur de cet essai est d'avis que la jeunesse doit se politiser et prendre toute sa part dans le combat qui sied au continent en vue de l'émanciper, de le libérer et de le faire figurer pleinement dans la modernité. Se politiser commence par l'indignation, puis l'engagement pour les causes justes dont nos pays ne peuvent plus se soustraire. Il existe un capital culturel et symbolique, et des motifs d'indignation pour vouloir transformer le réel et proposer des pistes d'un futur de progrès."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1. The African Female Body: From Colonial Inscription to Postcolonial Conscription
• 2. Haunted Silences: African Feminist Criticism and the Specter of Sarah Baartman
• 3. Spectral Female Sexualities: The Politics of Sexual Pleasure in Women's Literatures
• 4. Subversive and Pedagogical Hauntologies: The Unclothed Female Body in Visual and Performance Arts
• 5. Laying Specters to Rest? On Bringing Sarah Baartman Home
• Conclusion Notes References Index.
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Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women's sexuality "haunt" contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which-by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women's sexuality-generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how "ghosts" from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women's sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women's power and autonomy.
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Anthropain is pain inflicted by human beings on other human beings. Women experience anthropain in the negotiation of their everyday lives. This book tells the stories of eight women and their reactions to anthropain encountered as they engage in their respective socio-economic and political struggles. The eight women are drawn from a village in Africa. They express their feminine utu (humanness) through what is termed here "sweet sobs." They weep in pain, but turn their tears into creative energy that generates resilience, hope, productivity, inspiration, positive change, and sustainable development. This book is about shunning the ostrich mentality, avoiding living in denial, turning lemons into lemonade, and acknowledging that, while life will not always be fair, one has to negotiate in life to achieve desired outcomes. It is a celebration of women's resilience, creativity, and bouncing back amidst adversity. While the issue of class, privilege, race, ethnicity, and stereotyping has divided the global women's movement, the book represents a handy common denominator to rally women to stop violence, gender stereotypes, and exploitative economic relations and leave a positive legacy that inspire others. The analysis is illuminated by Gikuyu orature, womanism, and feminism. It contributes to the understanding of the feminist crisis in the public domain, in corporate and government boardrooms, and at the grassroots level in peasant and economic informal activities and in rural households and informal settlements. It calls for the re-evaluation of current gender methodologies, which portray women as victims of patriarchy, exploitative economic relations, and climate change. It demonstrates the power of the story as a tool of gendered research and women's empowerment.
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• 1 Introduction: Feminizing Empire.- 2 Soft Power: Uplifting "Native Women".- 3 Violence: Authoritarian Transformations.- 4 "African Skin and a Hispanic Heart"? Racism, Ethnic Relations, Class, and Gender.- 5 The "Bargains" of African Women's Cooperation.- 6 Staging Iberian Domesticity in Africa.- 7 Empire and Nation States: Competing Projects.- 8 Epilog: The Presence of Imperial Pasts.-.
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This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of benevolent Iberian colonialism, gendered Westernization, and development for African women as well as actual imperial practices - from forced resettlement to sexual exploitation to promoting domestic skills. Focusing on Angola, Mozambique, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, the author mines newly available and neglected documents, including sources from Portuguese and Spanish women's organizations overseas. They offer insights into how African women perceived and responded to their assigned roles within an elite that was meant to preserve the empires and stabilize Afro-Iberian ties. The book also retraces parallels and differences between imperial strategies regarding women and the notions of African anticolonial movements about what women should contribute to the struggle for independence and the creation of new nation-states.
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This book explores the issues of promiscuity and carelessness and their effect on the prevalence of STIs and HIV/AIDS in Africa from a perspective focusing on African cultural constructs. As such, it puts African sexual habits and cultural beliefs vis-a-vis the STI and HIV/AIDS debate in an understandable context. It will appeal to both the general public, as well as people in the private and public health spheres concerned with this scourge, as the book will assist in dealing with the associational and causative factors of the STI and HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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• Mise en couple et stratégies matrimoniales
• La bénédiction nuptiale au Congo
• Une alliance avec Dieu ou avec Mammon ?
• Motivations et significations des formes matrimoniales en milieu urbain gabonais
• Choix du conjoint et stratégies de mise en couple chez les instituteurs à Libreville
• Cyberstratégies matrimoniales des femmes camerounaises : un enjeu pour la mobilité féminine et le soutien des familles restées au pays
• Les familles au coeur de l'invention sociale
• Le vocabulaire de la famille comme connaissance émergente et partagée au Congo Brazzaville
• De la socialisation de l'enfant déviant à l'éducation par sa famille
• Représentation de la gouvernance familiale des adolescents : quelles perspectives pour la famille gabonaise ?
• Famille et socialisation politique. Influence des parents dans les choix politiques des étudiants au Gabon
• Les familles face aux politiques publiques
• Les déterminants de la thésaurisation des familles au Congo-Brazzaville
• Mutations de l'école et familles au Gabon
• Maîtrise de la fécondité et familles : les déterminants microsociaux de la contraception en milieu urbain africain
• L'exemple du Congo-Brazzaville
• Les lignages face aux enjeux des biens patrimoniaux au Gabon
• Liens familiaux sous pression de l'individualisme
• "Coeur de chien"
• Processus de déparentélisation au Gabon
• Le syndrome de l'oncle sorcier
• Etude d'un avatar de la sorcellerie familiale dans le Bassin du Congo
• Face à "la part maudite"
• Discorde et accord familial autour de la dévolution successorale au Gabon
• Recomposition des appartenances villageoises et accomplissement personnel : compétition et coopération dans les familles Fang-Beti de Yaoundé (Cameroun)
• Vers de nouveaux modèles familiaux ?
• De l'influence de la famille traditionnelle africaine dans la crise de la famille africaine contemporaine
• Maltraitance et structures de l'autorité dans les familles polygamiques au Gabon
• WhatsApp Village : A `Mediated' Family in Niger Republic
• Économie morale des ménages connectés en Afrique urbaine populaire.

"Partout la famille est le lieu de divers bouleversements. Certainement encore plus en Afrique où elle se trouve au coeur de multiples influences aussi bien internes qu'externes. Étudier la famille en Afrique consiste donc à interroger les diverses mutations qu'y a connu, ces dernières années, cette structure en tant que réalité sociale, anthropologique, politique, économique... Cet ouvrage se propose de répondre au questionnement suivant : Qu'en est-il de la famille en Afrique aujourd'hui ? Comment fonctionne-t-elle ? Quels sont ses principaux traits ? Quels sont les changements et les permanences ? Pour ce faire, de nombreux terrains sont explorés (Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Sénégal, Cameroun, Niger, Congo-démocratique), aussi bien les zones rurales que les milieux urbains. "Les modalités de mise en couple et les stratégies matrimoniales", "La famille comme lieu d'invention sociale", "Les liens entre famille et politiques publiques", "L'incidence de l'individualisme sur les liens familiaux", enfin "La transformation des modèles familiaux" sont les différents thèmes travaillés par les auteurs selon des approches multiples et variées. Cet ouvrage est composé d'une vingtaine de contributions dont celles de spécialistes (sociologues, anthropologues, linguistes, psychologues, économistes, etc.) intervenant dans diverses institutions d'enseignement et/ou de recherche en Afrique et en France."--Page 4 of cover.

• Chapter 1: Key issues affecting infant and child development in Africa - Mark Tomlinson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Charlotte Hanlon (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and King's College, UK), and Anne Petersen (Harvard University, USA)--
• Chapter 2: Mental health policy in Africa: Gaps, needs and priorities for infants and children - Crick Lund (University of Cape Town, South Africa)--
• Chapter 3: Applying a mixed-methods model to planning and evaluating child mental health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa - Theresa Betancourt, Sarah Meyers-Ohki, Anne Stevenson (Harvard School of Public Health, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, USA)-- Christina Mushashi (Partners In Health, Rwanda)--
• Chapter 4: Culture and Attachment in Africa - Hiltrud Otto and Heidi Keller (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)--
• Chapter 5: The Nigerian adolescent: Perspectives on physical, mental, social growth and development - Olayinka O. Omigbodun, Tolulope T. Bella-Awusah (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)--
• Chapter 6: Infant and child development: Key considerations for a broad vision of health research - Jane Chege (World Vision International, Zambia), Jennifer Franz-Vasdeki (Independent Research Consultant, Geneva), Stefan Germann (World Vision International, Geneva and Nelson Mandela Metro University, South Africa), Mesfin Loha (World Vision East Africa Regional Office, Nairobi) and Thiago Luchesi (World Vision International, Geneva and Geneva Graduate Institute for International Development)--
• Chapter 7: Child development and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Identifying challenges and planning solutions - Lucie Cluver, Mark Orkin, Mark Boyes (Oxford University, UK)-- Roshan Baban, Lebo Madisha--
• Chapter 8: Maternal depression and child development: Existing sub-Saharan Africa evidence and an Ethiopian example - Charlotte Hanlon (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and King's College, UK)--
• Chapter 9: Childhood cognitive development and its correlates in sub-Saharan Africa: What should we be measuring in the context of urban poverty? - Penny Holding (International Centre for Behavioural Studies, Kenya)-- Jean Christophe Fotso, Patricia A. Elung'ata (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya)--
• Chapter 10: The birth to twenty study - Linda Richter, Sara Naicker, Shane A Norris (HSRC and MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit)--
• Chapter 11: Malawi: Cultural conceptualisations of child development - Melissa Gladstone (University of Liverpool, UK), Mary Phiri (Sub-Saharan Africa Family Enrichment, Zambia)--
• Chapter 12: Infant Mental Health Research in Africa: Call for Action for Research in the Next Ten Years - Mark Tomlinson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Barak Morgan (University of Cape Town)--
• Chapter 13: Conclusions and the way forward - Anne Petersen (University of Michigan, USA), Peter Baguma (Uganda), Noel Malanda (Kenya).
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While 90% of the 135 million infants born in the world each year live in low-income or developing countries, in a recent survey only 4% of the articles in 12 major international infancy and developmental journals were found to address the experience of infants living in the developing world. Yet, in conditions of extreme poverty and instability, conditions characteristic of Africa, the pressures on parents differ markedly from those facing parents in communities that are typically the focus of research in child development. This timely book addresses the dearth of literature in this area. There is an increasing awareness of the need for a broader knowledge base regarding infant and child development. One of the consequences of this awareness is a burgeoning interest in research in the field in Africa. The recent World Health Organization report `Social Determinants of Health' has focused the interest of the academy on factors outside traditional medicine, on the social determinants of later problems and the profound inequities that exist as a result of poverty and how these impact on infant and child development. This volume will sit squarely within this context and will offer a broad contextualised understanding of the factors that impact upon infant and child development in Africa. Unlike other works on the subject it is Africa-wide in its scope, with case studies in Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi and South Africa. Recommended for: Academics, students and practitioners in psychology, including developmental psychology, child clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology, psychiatry, human ecology, and those in schools of education. It will also be of interest to nurses and paediatricians, health workers and for those interested in early childhood development.
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• 1. Is Homosexuality an African or unAfrican Human Rights Issue?.-
• 2. Contesting the Sexual: Sexuality in an African Context.-
• 3. Contesting Religion: African Religious Leaders in Sexual Politics .-
• 4. Contesting Global Culture: Globalization and Sexual Politics in sub-Saharan Africa.-
• 5. Contesting Identity: Democratic Human Rights and Sexual Politics.-
• 6. Contesting Sovereignty: Protective homophobia and International Relations.-
• 7. Contesting the Biblical Adam and Eve Narrative: Jesus on Sexual Diversity.-
• 8. A Dance of Many Tunes.
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This book examines how socio-political assumptions inform and shape the contestation of sexuality on the African continent. Across Africa, the idea that homosexuality is un-African, un-Christian, un-natural, and un-cultural is now well established. This book analyzes politically- and religiously-inspired protective homophobia within the context of Africa's socioeconomic and political place in the global community. The author builds upon on-the-ground research and his groundbreaking previous studies on the cultural politics of globalization in Africa to present a wide, complex, and interdisciplinary understanding of Africa's sexual politics.
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• Heading south : an introduction
• Ethnography interruptus
• The concept of the fetish
• African origins
• The poverty of sexuality
• African sexual extraversion and getting in bed with Robert Mapplethorpe
• Para-ethnography, golf, and the internet
• White slavery
• Love and money, romance and scam
• Conclusion : towards an understanding of erotics.

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans' race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement.
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• Femmes et politique : militantisme et engagement au XXe siècle
• Femmes, images et pouvoir en contexte colonial. Le cas de l'Érythrée dans l'entre-deux-guerres / Silvia Bruzzi
• "La femme au pouvoir, ce n'est pas le monde à l'envers". Le militantisme au féminin en Guinée, des années 1950 à 1984 / Céline Pauthier
• Regard croisé sur deux générations de militantes maliennes (1954-1991). Entre engagements "féministes" et partisans / Ophélie Rillon
• Femmes et normes sociales : expériences, nouvelles voies revendicatrices et leurs limites
• Changing Dynamics of Gender Roles and Norms in Post-War Northern Uganda. A Question of Girls' Empowerment ? / Julia Vorhöter
• Femmes qui gouvernent les femmes : émancipation et féminité dans la campagne du post-génocide rwandais / Ilaria Buscaglia
• Devenir femmes de développement au Sénégal. Des carrières militantes associatives et professionnelles genrées / Emmanuelle Bouilly
• Femmes, rapports de genre et religions : vers une émancipation progressive?
• Modern Love in Lagos: Dating the Halal Way in Lagos / Marloes Janson
• Politiques du genre et féminisme islamique au Burkina Faso / Maud Saint-Lary
• Schooling, Spirit Possession, and the 'Modern Girl' in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
• Itinéraires et expériences de femmes dans les réseaux transnationaux et migratoires
• Migrations féminines et développement en Afrique subsaharienne occidentale et centrale / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
• Genre, génération et contrôle de la circulation des personnes entre le Mali et le Sénégal à l'heure de Modibo Keita (1959-1968) / Marie Rodet et Brandon County
• Migrantes sénégalaises : entre aspirations personnelles et logiques sociales du milieu d'origine / Nathalie Mondain
• Le long chemin vers la Chine : des commerçantes sénégalaises dans la mondialisation / Laurence Marfaing
• Si loin pour si peu. Voyages de commerçantes angolaises dans l'économie de survie globalisée / Léa Barreau.

"Face aux changements politiques (colonisation, décolonisation, autoritarismes et démocratisation), socioéconomiques (libéralisation, mondialisation des échanges, flexibilité et précarisation de l'emploi, bouleversements au sein de la famille) et religieux (montée de la piété, médiatisation du religieux, émergence de nouvelles autorités) en Afrique, les femmes ont inlassablement et profondément posé leur marque. En écho à ces différents contextes, ce livre s'inscrit dans plusieurs tendances de la recherche: faire état de l'hétérogénéité du militantisme politique féminin et des recompositions des rapports de genre au cours du XXe siècle; revisiter les concepts d'empowerment et de religious agency et démontrer leur efficience et leurs limites sur le terrain empirique; analyser les conditions dans lesquelles s'inscrivent les migrations internationales des femmes et leurs effets sur leur statut, leur vie de couple, leur vie familiale et leurs aspirations. La perspective de cet ouvrage est de faire état de processus émancipatoires distincts et ambivalents, voire contradictoires de femmes non seulement à travers leurs luttes et prises de position politiques ainsi qu'à travers leurs choix d'activités professionnelles, mais aussi en fonction du rapport au corps, des hiérarchies et normes sociales contraignantes, des référents culturels souvent normatifs et des nouvelles opportunités existantes et ce, à différentes échelles (couple, famille, sphère publique, scènes locale, nationale, sous régionale et internationale, zone urbaine/rurale). Aussi, il s'agit d'analyser les forces et limites de ces processus émancipatoires, leurs avancées et leurs reflux pour montrer en quoi ils sont en cours de construction, fragiles et lents. Cette lecture nuancée de ces dynamiques a été menée selon une optique pluridisciplinaire et un souci de mener des recherches empiriques dans plusieurs pays du continent."--Page 4 of cover.

• Genre et fondamentalismes en Afrique: une introduction / Fatou Sow
• Religion, culture et politique : relire les fondamentalismes / Fatou Sow
• Fundamentalism and the challenge to women's human rights / Karima Bennoune
• Genre et défis des fondamentalismes en Afrique / Fatou Sow
• Genre et fondamentalismes culturels et religieux en Afrique / Albertine Tshibilondi Ngoyi
• Évolution des rôles sans évolution du statut : souffrance et stratégies insoupçonnées des femmes de la banlieue dakaroise / Rosalie Macchia-Samba
• "Femmes soyez soumises" : perception et limite de l'application des mesures de lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes en milieu conjugal en République démocratique du Congo / Francine Shako Obonga
• Des figures féminines "scandaleuses" au Sénégal : une tension entre subjectivation transgressive et conformisme aux valeurs culturelles fondamentales / Awa Diop
• Sexualité et procréation des femmes atteintes du VIH/SIDA à Yaoundé : entre fondamentalismes et discours médical / Moustapha Moncher Nsangou Mbouemboue
• L'impasse sur les droits sexuels dans la lutte des féministes sénégalaises pour la pénalisation des mutilations génitales féminines au Sénégal : autocensure ou césure stratégique ? / Maïmouna Ndoye
• Homosexuality and religious fundamentalism in the Ghanaian Mediascape: clashes between an "un-Godly'' concept and lived practices / Karine Geoffrion
• Les femmes au sein de l'Église kimbanguiste / Camille Welepele Elatre
• Émergence des femmes dans "les Églises dites de réveil" à Yaoundé (Cameroun) / Érick Zackarie Endémé Tsamenyé
• Cultural fundamentalism and gender disparity / Chidiebere Onwutuebe
• Understanding women's participation in politics and decision-making: the case of Namibia's 2009 elections / Michael Conteh
• Women and politics in postcolonial Swaziland through the prism of the Kwetfula-Marula ceremony / Hellen Promise Mhlanga
• Terrorism and counterterrorism in eastern Africa: concerns for Muslim women in Kenya / Alfred Anangwe.

When, why and how can religion and culture be both sources and places of expression for fundamentalisms, particularly in relation to politics? Those are the central questions asked throughout this book alongside a discussion on the result when religion, strenthened by culture, is used as a political tool to access moral and social power. Cultural and religious messages often form the basis of decisions, laws and programs made in politics, and have a direct effect on society in general, and on women and gender relations in particular. The various forms taken by fundamentalisms in some African countries and the contexts under which they have emerged, the ways in which they (re)shape identities and relationships between men and women are also analysed in this book. These fundamentalisms are frequently sources of concern in social debates, in feminist and feminine organizations as well as in academia and politics. The manipulation of cultures and religions are becoming progressively political, and consequently can cause social discrimination, or even physical, moral, and symbolic violence.

Her Story/Umlando Wakhe is the first in a planned children's book series for 7- to 12-year-old girls that features 30 South African women whose lives inspire. The first title in this series, Daughters of Modjadji/Amadodakazi endlovukazi uModjadji, features women in the book from diverse settings, sectors and spheres of life. Their stories reflect not only the multiple roles that women play in society, but also the obstacles they face as a result of race, class and most importantly; their gender. The book is centered on themes of affirmation, identity and gender. The stories are accompanied by vivid illustrations and interactive comic strips. The empowerment of girls is a fundamental building block of the publication, as seen by most of the writers and illustrators in the book being female. The book will be published as a reversible English and isiZulu book in the first year with other languages in the next three years. Her Story/Umlando Wakhe will be available in both print and e-book formats in selected stores from February 2018. -- Publisher's description.