New Women of Lusaka
New Women of Lusaka

Author: Ilsa M. Glazer

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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New Women of Lusakaexamines how educated young women in Zambia’s capital city are adapting to their new social and occupational status in society. The challenges that result from rapid social change appear through vivid descriptions of family, school, and social life in modern Lusaka.The author clearly shows how difficult and painful the process of culture change can be for individuals who become caught up in it through circumstances largely beyond their control.

Home economics
Home economics

Author: Sacha Hepburn

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1526162032

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Domestic service has long been one of the largest forms of urban employment across southern Africa. Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of this essential sector in the decades following independence and the end of apartheid. Focusing on Lusaka and drawing wider comparisons, the book traces how Black workers and employers adapted existing models of domestic service as part of broader responses to changing gendered employment patterns, economic decline, and endemic poverty. It reveals how kin-based domestic service gradually displaced wage labour and how women and girl workers came to dominate kin-based and waged domestic service, with profound consequences for labour regulation and worker organising. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book provides essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africa’s post-colonial and post-apartheid history.

Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa
Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa

Author: Gisela G. Geisler

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9789171065155

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This study looks at womens stuggle in Southern Africa where the last ten years have seen the most pervasive success stories on the African continent.Tracing the history of womens involvement in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, the book analyses post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies employed by womens movements to gain a foothold in politics.

Gender, Agency and Change
Gender, Agency and Change

Author: Victoria Goddard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1134585721

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In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be reflected in strategies of accommodation and adaption that can nevertheless produce new institutional arrangements. Alternatively, they may be directed towards the outright rejection of these processes. The cases examined in this volume explore the ways in which different subjects engage in the reformulation of spaces, roles and identities, redefining the boundaries between, and the content of, the 'public' and the 'private'. The examples also provide an account of how gendered discourses are deployed to convey new meanings, a new sense of place and time, confirming or challenging ideas of 'tradition' and 'modernity'. This collection will be of particular interest to students of anthropology and gender studies.

Women in Zambia
Women in Zambia

Author: Nakatiwa G. Mulikita

Publisher: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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African Feminism
African Feminism

Author: Gwendolyn Mikell

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0812200772

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African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with "bread, butter, and power" issues. Contributors present case studies of ten African states, demonstrating that—as they fight for access to land, for the right to own property, for control of food distribution, for living wages and safe working conditions, for health care, and for election reform—African women are creating a powerful and specifically African feminism.

Second World, Second Sex
Second World, Second Sex

Author: Kristen Ghodsee

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1478003278

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Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe—what used to be called the Second World—once dominated women’s activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In Second World, Second Sex Kristen Ghodsee rescues some of this lost history by tracing the activism of Eastern European and African women during the 1975 United Nations International Year of Women and the subsequent Decade for Women (1976-1985). Focusing on case studies of state socialist Bulgaria and nonaligned but socialist-leaning Zambia, Ghodsee examines the feminist networks that developed between the Second and Third Worlds and shows how alliances between socialist women challenged American women’s leadership of the global women’s movement. Drawing on interviews and archival research across three continents, Ghodsee argues that international ideological competition between capitalism and socialism profoundly shaped the world women inhabit today.

Verandahs of Power
Verandahs of Power

Author: Garth Andrew Myers

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780815629979

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Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities, tracing the legacies of colonialism in different and divergent postcolonial settings—a revolutionary left-wing socialist state (Zanzibar) and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship (Malawi). In addition to the examination of urban plans and the African urban majority's responses to them, the book traces the experience of the urban planning process through three different "verandahs of power," or levels of class depiction: the colonial power, the colonized middle, and the urban majority. Interspersed with personal stories, this book illuminates our understanding of the workings of power in African cities by addressing human experiences of that power.

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Iris Berger

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780253334763

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"These four volumes in this major series... provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded.... A basic set for all academic libraries." -- Library Journal Academic NewswireBerger and White focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, tracing women's history from earliest times to the present. By exploring their place in social, economic, political, and religious life, the authors highlight the changing societal position of women through shifts over time in ideas about gender and the connections between women's public and private spheres.