African Women and Their Networks of Support
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African Women and Their Networks of Support

Intervening Connections

  1. 251 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

African Women and Their Networks of Support

Intervening Connections

About this book

African Women and their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections is an interdisciplinary analysis of how African women, in their different cultural, social, and political spaces, find innovative strategies to address the challenge they face and voice their often-underrepresented perspectives. These actions are often molded in either formal or informal networks of support that provide women with the necessary peer-based foundation to deal with gender discrimination, violence, and subjugation. On other occasions, women's strategies toward change are driven by specific individuals who set the transformative agenda and trajectory toward social change. Contributors label these efforts as intervening connections, representing women's intentional actions to circumvent, disrupt, question, and ultimately rearrange structures of gender discrimination. Respective chapters capture networks that are historic and current; real, virtual, and imagined; local and transnational, and managed by women on the continent as well as in the diaspora. Considering these diverse spaces in which networking happens, contributors underscore not only how African women aim at deconstructing current systemic gender inequalities, but also how they are developing futures of gender equity and equality.

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Yes, you can access African Women and Their Networks of Support by Elene Cloete,Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov,Mariah C. Stember in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & African Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. African Women and Their Networks of Support
  3. African Women and Their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1
  8. Sama Jigéen
  9. Chapter 2
  10. “Anything That Departs from Justice to Injustice Is Not Part of the Shari’a”
  11. Chapter 3
  12. “Instant Interventioning”
  13. Chapter 4
  14. “All This Drama”
  15. Chapter 5
  16. Caribbean Women Writers
  17. Chapter 6
  18. Networks of Collective Memory
  19. Chapter 7
  20. Revisiting Token Resistance and Its Effect on the Perpetuation of Rape Culture
  21. Chapter 8
  22. “The Revolution Is in the Everyday”
  23. Chapter 9
  24. Finding Home
  25. Conclusion
  26. Index
  27. About the Contributors