The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa: Current and Future Perspectives

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Table of Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgments xv
• I - Introduction 1
• 1 - Trends and Conundrums in the Feminization of Development Processes in Africa 3
• II - Sociopolitical Development Processes 15
• 2 - Women and Politics in Nigeria: An Appraisal 17
• REFERENCES 29
• 3 - Women's Empowerment and the Anthropology of Participatory Development 31
• REFERENCES 49
• 4 - Looking at African Women: Media Representations of Feminism, Human Rights, and Development 51
• NOTES 64
• 5 - The State and Feminization of Developmental Processes in West Africa 67
• NOTES 90
• 6 - Historical Women in the Fight for Liberation 95
• NOTES 110
• 7 - Gender-Based Discrimination in Housing and Urban Development Policies in Cameroon 113
• NOTES 128
• 8 - The State and Integration of Women in Ibo: Patriarchy and Gender Advancement 131
• NOTES 142
• III - Educational, Economic, and Institutional Development 145
• 9 - Women's Education in Nigeria: Improving Trends 147
• REFERENCES 164
• 10 - African Women in the Development Process: Business and Computer Technology Issues 167
• REFERENCES 178
• 11 - Women in the Mobilization and Allocation of Household Savings in Developing Countries: Promoting Interlinks between Women's Indigenous Savings Groups and Community Banks in Nigeria 181
• REFERENCES 197
• 12 - Women and Development in West Africa: Traditional Views in Contemporary Literature 199
• NOTES 212
• 13 - Development and Women's Writings from Southern and Northern Africa 215
• NOTES 225
• Index 229
• About the Contributors 239

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