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Using the convergence of the impact of globalization and political
turmoil in Ghana on Ghanaian women as a backdrop, this book
examines the migration of the women to the US and their decisions
to care for upper middle class white seniors who elected to stay in
their homes to be cared for by private caregivers. The book
explores the attraction of domestic care work, the women's
perceptions of their job, their relationships with their clients,
and the dynamics of their relationships with their immediate
families and families left behind in Ghana. It also analyzes the
women's interactions with the immigrant community from their remote
work sites. The book examines widely-held beliefs about domestic
work as undervalued, under-remunerated, and relegated to
marginalized immigrant women of color. While admitting that these
problems exist, the women whose stories are told in the book did
not believe that their brand of care work, which they called
private practice, was undervalued or underpaid. They also did not
think that racism played a role in the concentration of immigrant
women of color in domestic care work as widely believed, although,
again, the women admitted that there was racism in American
society. By doing so, the women symbolically placed themselves
beyond the institutional barriers that constrain the lives of women
of color in American society. And while it addresses common themes
like exploitation, abuse, restriction of movement, etc. that other
studies of immigrant live-in caregiving address, this book stands
out in two major ways. First is its truly transnational character.
It links the women's background in Ghana to their immigration
history and how these two influenced their choice as well as
perceptions of care work and then loops their experience of care
work back to expectations in Ghana. Second, the book validates the
women's voices as a product of their cultural background, thus
making the case that the women's choices and experiences were
informed by conditions in the US and the cultural baggage the women
brought with them. The book argues that private care work satisfied
women's financial expectations, and with that, leverage in their
families.
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural
dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and
power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the
sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of
gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses
that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at
the intersection of traditional gender expectations of
heteronormativity and women's perceptions of how heteronormativity
should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's
agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier,
Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special
brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men.
Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian
women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the
diverse cultures in which they live.
This book analyzes the etiology of child rape in Ghana within the
framework of rape culture. By applying feminist perspectives and
psychological theories to laws in Ghana to protect children against
sexual abuse, this book creates room for both victims and
perpetrators to tell their stories while also incorporating the
views of the public through a textual analysis of reader comments
on child rape in the nation’s newspapers. The presentation of
both victims’ and perpetrators’ perspectives is done with the
goal of drawing attention to the pervasiveness of child rape in
Ghanaian society and to provide a lens through which we can detect
potentially dangerous situations that can lead to child molestation
in our homes and communities, revealing lapses in social
organization and interactions that make child rape possible.
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