African Women and Their Networks of Support (eBook, PDF)

Intervening Connections
Redaktion: Cloete, Elene; Stember, Mariah C.; Ndakalako-Bannikov, Martha

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978789012
• Artikelnr.: 74842427

Autorenporträt

Edited by Elene Cloete; Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov and Mariah C. Stember - Contributions by Shola Aromona; Irene Awino; Debra J. H. Bolton; Elene Cloete; Lafleur Cockburn; Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov; Jessica Ott; Emily Jenan Riley and Mariah C. Stember

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Intervening Connections: Below the Sightline
Elene Cloete, Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov and Mariah C. Stember
Chapter 1: Sama Jigéen: Women and Women-Led Associations in a New Era of
Politics in Dakar, Senegal
Emily Jenan Riley
Chapter 2: "Anything that Departs from Justice to Injustice is not Part of
the Shari'a:" Women's Rights Activism and Islamic Legal Reform in Zanzibar
Jessica Ott
Chapter 3: "Instant Interventioning": Digital Networks, Visibility, and
Support against Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
Elene Cloete
Chapter 4: "All This Drama": Intervening Narratives and Precarious
Performances in the Namibian Online Fictional Diary The Dream of a Kwanyama
Girl
Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov
Chapter 5: Caribbean Women Writers: Forging a New Frontier in the Regional
Literary Tradition
LaFleur Cockburn
Chapter 6: Networks of Collective Memory: Women's Narratives of Injustice
in Northern Kenya
Irene Awino
Chapter 7: Revisiting Token Resistance and its Effect on the Perpetuation
of Rape Culture
Olushola Aromona
Chapter 8: "The Revolution is in the Everyday": Women in the Namibian
Liberation Movement
Mariah C. Stember
Chapter 9: "Finding Home": Displaced African Women in Rural Southwest
Kansas
Debra J.H. Bolton
Conclusion: Future Interventions, Persistent Networks
About the Contributors