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African Women and Children - Crisis and Response (Hardcover)
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African Women and Children - Crisis and Response (Hardcover)
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Although research on the roles and status of women and children in
Africa has expanded over the past two decades, there is still a
lack of comprehensive, reality-based and sophisticated analyses and
documentation of the important issues and debates in this area.
This collection of original and thought-provoking essays remedies
these shortcomings by providing an eclectic, informed, and
contextualized account of the nature and consequences of the
oppression and abuse of women and children in Africa. In addition,
it provides a critical review of a broad range of policies and
interventions that are being pursued by statutory and
non-governmental organizations to improve the quality of life of
these two groups. Based on survey data, case studies, literature
reviews, and firsthand accounts, this collection brings together
some of the most significant new contributions to our understanding
of how and why African women and children are oppressed by society.
The contributors to this volume consist of a well-known team of
scholars from the social sciences and humanities who are mostly
citizens of several sub-Saharan countries. Together, their lively
contributions cover a wide range of topics including a comparative
critique of females and gender status, traditional institutions and
violation of women's human rights, and unequal access to power. In
addition, the contributors examine constraints upon women's
participation in politics, the feminization of poverty,
prostitution, patriarchy and marriage, the inadequacy of gender
neutral policies in housing delivery systems, the impact of
parental separation and divorce on children, child abuse, and child
streetism.
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