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Much of our understanding of the world, our societies, and
ourselves rests on theories and knowledge generated predominantly
by men of certain nationalities and economic classes. This
male-dominated and culturally specific theorizing and knowledge
have generally resulted in the exclusion of women and other groups
from the process of formal theorizing and knowledge building.
Feminism argues that the male-dominated knowledge represents a
skewed perception of reality and is only partial knowledge.
Feminism is a generalized, wide-ranging system of ideas about
social life and human experience developed from a woman-centered
perspective. It treats women as the central subjects in the
investigative process and seeks to see the world from the
distinctive vantage points of women in the social world. The best
way to empower women and better the situation for women is to take
women's daily experiences and their informal theorizing into
account and, on this basis, adopt feminist approaches to building
theory and knowledge. Philosophising Experiences and Vision of the
Female Body, Mind, and Soul: Historical Context and Contemporary
Theory provides an overview and introduction to the study of
feminist theory and practice in the social sciences. This book
provides a starting point for further and more advanced study of
the nexus of feminism, gender, and development and translates
feminist theory and concepts into practice. The chapters
investigate, in a historical context, mainstream and contemporary
theories of feminism and gender studies. This book is ideal for
post-graduate students of social science; researchers of
development management, business management, public governance, and
gender and development; activists; feminists; and practitioners,
stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in
feminist theory and knowledge building.
This study sought to investigate the challenges faced by the
informal cross border traders (ICBTs) plying the Harare
-Johannesburg route from 2006 to 2010. The study shows that
informal cross border traders encounter a lot of challenges during
the conduct of their business. Some of these challenges, in terms
of severity include border formalities, lack of government support
and high transport costs. Informal traders are not organized and do
not join associations. This study recommends that informal cross
border traders' associations embark on recruitment campaigns to
educate the informal cross border traders about the benefits they
get by belonging to an association. It also encourages associations
to come up with savings clubs to mobilize funds from members for
loaning to those members in need at an interest. Finally it also
recommends that the government come up with a set of relaxed
regulations that would create a non-formal board to oversee the
informal trade activities. It would then make it mandatory for
informal traders to register with the board, making it easier to
monitor, regulate and intervene.
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