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Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa A Reader
Edited by James Etim Winston Salem State University, USA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introductionvii James Etim Section 1: Theory and Research 1. Quo Vadis Women’s and Gender Studies in Africa? Assessing the Activism/Academy Association Gertrude Fester
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2. Women and Society in Female Authored Short Stories and Poems from Namibia: The Dimensions of Oppression and Violence James Etim
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3. Local Contexts, Local Theory: Revisiting Standpoint Theory through Situated Ethnographic Vignettes Maheshvari Naidu
41
4. Reinforcement or Transformation: A Feminist Critique of the Representation of Women in Two Popular South African Television Dramas 65 Claudine Hingston Section 2: Gender, Culture and Power 5. Women as Mediators in South Africa Connie M. Anderson
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6. African Marriages in Transformation: Anthropological Insights Julia Pauli
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7. LGBTI Rights and Experiences in Three Southern African Nations Suzanne LaFont
115
Section 3: Gender and Education 8. Women, Education and Sustainable Development in Sudan James Etim and Randa Gindeel
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9. Women in Teaching and Educational Administration in Kenya Victor F. O. Ombati
157
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Section 4: Gender, Law, Business and Economic Development and Politics 10. Women and Entrepreneurship Development – The Case of South Africa Ravinder Rena
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11. Women and Small Scale Entrepreneurship: Perspective from the SADC Region197 Mamorena Lucia Matsoso and Chux Gervase Iwu 12. Women, Land Use, Property Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe Average Chigwenya and Pardon Ndhlovu
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13. The Role of Women in Political Decision Making in East and Southern Africa: A Case Study of Kenya and South Africa Michael Wabomba Masinde
233
Section 5: Gender, Health and Violence 14. Gender and HIV in Namibia: The Contribution of Social and Economic Factors in Women’s HIV Prevalence Shelene Gentz and Mónica Ruiz-Casares
247
15. Women and State Violence in Zimbabwe, 2000–2008 Darlington Mutanda, Howard Rukondo and Elizabeth Matendera
257
About the Contributors
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Index281
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JAMES ETIM
INTRODUCTION
In the last thirty years, the research and discus
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