African Women And Their Networks Of Support

Author : Elene Cloete
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793607400
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women and Their Networks of Support written by Elene Cloete and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bridget Turner Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000549984
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Mentorship Networks to Support Black Women written by Bridget Turner Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book in the Diverse Faculty in the Academy series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher education, provides advice for navigating unwelcoming campus environments, and explores avenues for institutions to support and foster minoritized women’s success in the academy. Chapter authors present critical approaches to advance equity and to achieve trust and transparency in the academy. Drawing on examples of mentoring between Black women students, faculty, and administrators in and outside of the academy from diverse institutional contexts, exploring the use of digital technologies, and framed by theoretical concepts from a range of disciplines, this important volume provides insights on mentoring that can be employed across all of higher education to support the success of Black women faculty. Full of actionable steps that institutional leaders can take to support the network of mentors it takes to be successful in the academy, this book is a must read for department and university leaders, faculty, and graduate students in Higher Education interested in supporting and fostering mentoring for those most vulnerable in the academic pathway for success.

Author : J. Arthur
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230623913
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women Immigrants in the United States written by J. Arthur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264683356
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West African Studies Women and Trade Networks in West Africa written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report proposes the development of innovative public policies based on the reinforcement of the social capital of women and policy approaches that promote better integration of the initiatives undertaken by governments, international and non-governmental organisations to empower women and strengthen their resilience.

Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029932110X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding the World Together written by Nwando Achebe and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney

Author : Roksana Bahramitash
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137481420
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa written by Roksana Bahramitash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa examines the shortcomings of the economic development policies in the region before and after the Arab uprisings. Many MENA countries tried to pursue neoliberal policies to boost economic growth. However, the outcome was associated with rising and disproportionate unemployment among the youth and women. The focal point of the book is the role of gender and the ways in which policies translate into economic outcomes. Particular attention is paid to women's entrepreneurship, especially as owners of small and medium enterprises, which, as the authors argue, can potentially reduce unemployment and poverty for the population as a whole. The book offers perspectives on wholesome policies that take account of issues concerning gender and youth and, thus, contribute to lower unemployment and reduced poverty and inequity.

Author : Rita Jackson Apaloo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998866123
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Discussion Guide and Journal written by Rita Jackson Apaloo and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Discussion Guide and Journal was created as an extension to African Women Connect: How I started and grew a networking group of African immigrant women for friendship, business, and community, in hopes that more people will join in the conversation to further the intentional relationship-building movement started by AWC. The purpose of this book is to get many more people talking about how we can truly connect for success. African Women Connect (AWC) was created for African immigrant women to come together, get to know each other, build valuable relationships, share experiences and resources, and find solutions to issues affecting them and their community. The book African Women Connect(AWC): How I started and grew a networking group of African immigrant women for friendship, business, and community is about the author's experiences starting and growing a social and professional networking group, over a period of six years. This was accomplished through events involving over 400 attendees from 20 different African Countries and the United States. Through experimentation, observation, and gut feeling, she was able to generate interests by building on what was most common. Ms. Apaloo relied on social norms in African immigrant communities in the United States in general and Minnesota in particular. Her story includes successes, missteps, and the discoveries along the way. African Women Connect: How I started and grew a networking group of African immigrant women for friendship, business, and community is community-focused. The author has always believed strongly that we (the members of our community) are the change that we are seeking.

Author : Gillian Laura Creese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442611596
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New African Diaspora in Vancouver written by Gillian Laura Creese and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New African Diaspora in Vancouver documents the experiences of immigrants from countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Canada's west coast. Despite their individual national origins, many adopt new identities as 'African' and are actively engaged in creating a new, place-based 'African community.' In this study, Gillian Creese analyzes interviews with sixty-one women and men from twenty-one African countries to document the gendered and racialized processes of community-building that occur in the contexts of marginalization and exclusion as they exist in Vancouver. Creese reveals that the routine discounting of previous education by potential employers, the demeaning of African accents and bodies by society at large, cultural pressures to reshape gender relations and parenting practices, and the absence of extended families often contribute to downward mobility for immigrants. The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity.

Author : Lizelle Bisschoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351854704
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in African Cinema written by Lizelle Bisschoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This book provides the first in-depth and sustained examination of women in African cinema. Films by women from different geographical regions are discussed in case studies that are framed by feminist theoretical and historical themes, and seen through an anti-colonial, philosophical, political and socio-cultural cinematic lens. A historical and theoretical introduction provides the context for thematic chapters exploring topics ranging from female identities, female friendships, women in revolutionary cinema, motherhood and daughterhood, women’s bodies, sexuality, and spirituality. Each chapter serves up a theoretical-historical discussion of the chosen theme, followed by two in-depth case studies that provide contextual and transnational readings of the films as well as outlining production, distribution and exhibition contexts. This book contributes to the feminist anti-racist revision of the canon by placing African women filmmakers squarely at the centre of African film culture. Demonstrating the depth and diversity of the feminine or female aesthetic in African cinema, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of African cinema, media studies and African studies.

Author : Serbin, Sylvia
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231001302
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African women, Pan-Africanism and African renaissance written by Serbin, Sylvia and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: