Law, Gender Relations and Social Change in Nigeria
Author: L. Amede Obiora
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780599931480
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Women & Social Change in Nigeria
Author: ʼLai Olurode
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNigerian Women in Social Change
Author: Simi Afonja
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender and Power Relations in Nigeria
Author: Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0739177788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobally, women are oppressed and this book introduces the perspective of African women and especially that of Nigerian women. This book looks at the major themes that drive the women's empowerment programs in Nigeria. Feminists in Nigeria are shaped by the institutions, values, ideologies, and since the 1970s, the UN and its agencies have added an international dimension. The chapters, while taking us through a theoretical overview of Nigerian women's empowerment, also shows how institutions, values, religion, and culture can challenge feminist political philosophy-- a philosophy that tends to universalize women's problems and their solutions.
Understanding Modern Nigeria
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 1108837972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Gender, Power and Politics in Nigeria
Author: Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh (Jr.)
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Logics of Gender Justice
Author: Mala Htun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 110828096X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist movements leverage international norms to contest women's subordination. Family law, abortion, and contraception, which challenge the historical claim of religious groups to regulate kinship and reproduction, conform to a logic of doctrinal politics, which turns on relations between religious groups and the state. Publicly-paid parental leave and child care follow a logic of class politics, in which the strength of Left parties and overall economic conditions are more salient. The book reveals the multiple and complex pathways to gender justice, illuminating the opportunities and obstacles to social change for policymakers, advocates, and others seeking to advance women's rights.
Through the Gender Lens
Author: Funmi Soetan
Publisher: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781498564724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cross-sectoral overview of social and political development policies and practices and their gender outcomes in Nigeria, this volume describes the status of women and men under the colonial and post-colonial policy regimes, unearthing the gender relations and gender (in)equality outcomes.
Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development
Author: Jane L. Parpart
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0889369100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.
Recognition and Power
Author: Bert van den Brink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-09
Total Pages: 21
ISBN-13: 113946275X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in debates in social and political theory. Developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given expression in the program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition. Honneth's research program offers an empirically insightful way of reflecting on emancipatory struggles for greater justice and a powerful theoretical tool for generating a conception of justice and the good that enables the normative evaluation of such struggles. This 2007 volume offers a critical clarification and evaluation of this research program, particularly its relationship to the other major development in critical social and political theory; namely, the focus on power as formative of practical identities (or forms of subjectivity) proposed by Michel Foucault and developed by theorists such as Judith Butler, James Tully, and Iris Marion Young.
