Aili Mari Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga

African Women's Movements

Changing Political Landscapes

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the causes of women's unprecedented success in African politics after the 1990s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521704908
• ISBN-10: 0521704901
• Artikelnr.: 23882553

Autorenporträt

Isabel Casimiro is the coordinator of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. She also coordinates the Woman's Program at the university's Center of African Studies and was formerly a member of parliament in Mozambique. She is author of Paz na Terra, Guerra em Casa: Feminismo e Organizações de Mulheres em Moçambique (2004) and other works related to the women's movement in Mozambique.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Historic influences on contemporary women's movements
3. The rise of the new women's movements
4. The challenge of new women's movements
5. Women's movements and constitutional and legislative challenges
6. In pursuit of equal political representation
7. Engendering the state bureaucracy
8. Women's movements negotiating peace
9. Conclusions.