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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One Nineteenth-Century Women -- 1 Peasant Women -- Women, Family, and Household -- Daily Life -- Beasts of Burden: The Tswana Example -- Gender and the Hierarchy of Work -- From Production to Reproduction: The Role of Marriage -- 2 Slave Women -- Slaves, Marriage, and Social Hierarchy -- Slave Women in Central Africa -- Was Every Woman a Slave? -- Women and Slavery in South Africa -- 3 Women and Trade at the Dawn of Colonialism -- Trade: A Tradition Rooted in West Africa -- Trade: A Forgotten Tradition in East Africa? -- 4 Powerful Women -- Women Chiefs -- Queen Mothers and Female Regents -- Eminent Women of Ancient Times -- 5 Female Identity and Culture -- Women and Religion -- Women in the City -- Part Two From the Country to the City -- 6 Rural Women and Colonialism -- The Twentieth-Century Trend: Cash-Cropping for Men, Subsistence for Women -- Access to Land -- The Future: Women's Revenge? -- 7 Women and Urban Migration -- In the Beginning: Colonial Migration -- Migration After World War II -- City Women Today -- Part Three Women in the City from Colonization to Independence -- 8 The Urban Condition -- Deterioration or Progress? -- Between Value Judgments and Reality: Independent Women and Free Women -- 9 Women and Trade -- West African Market Women -- Businesswomen in Central Africa -- The Special Case of the Cloistered Hausa Wives -- 10 Domestic Service -- Domestic Service in South Africa: A New Kind of Bondage? -- Domestic Service in Tropical Africa: Competition from Men -- 11 Prostitution: From "Free" Women to Women with AIDS -- Origins -- Miners and Prostitutes: South Africa -- Nairobi's Female "Entrepreneurs -- Prostitution in Islamic Milieus -- Free Women in the Cities of Central Africa

Foreword by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO ; Electronic version ; Incl. bibl.

During the last decades, changing intra-state and inter-state immigrant profiles in Spain has generated an interesting landscape for sociolinguistics research. There has been a shift from temporary migration to permanent settlement, which means that there is an increasing number of individuals who need to speak the locally legitimate forms of language for different reasons. Apart from this, recent statistics indicate that female immigrants' profiles are also changing, and they are becoming more and more forerunners and active participants in the formal Spanish labour market (Aja et al. 2011). Therefore, this dynamic, ever changing profile of female immigrants suggests that they move across existing boundaries, acquiring and developing their linguistic knowledge to access other forms of symbolic capitals in Spain. Building on my ethnography of two sites in Madrid and Barcelona between 2011 and 2014, I shall explain how African immigrant women become new speakers and how their language learning process intersects with socially constructed boundaries such as political, economic, and linguistic hierarchies and ascribed gender roles.

<p class="Pa7">The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is increasing in African populations, and is particularly high in Black South African women (42%) vs women in the United Kingdom (23%) and the United States of America (36%). This population group is also known to have the highest prevalence of obesity in the sub-Saharan African region (42%), and consequently, a high risk of non-communicable diseases. In this article, we discuss factors (abdominal subcutane­ous fat, visceral fat, lean mass, adiponectin, leptin, vitamin D, smoking and menopausal status) that have been investigated for their possible association with metabolic syn­drome in African women, and discuss some recommendations for management of the syndrome. In particular, the infrastructural development of HIV/AIDS clinics in South Africa provides an ideal integrated platform to cater to the treatment needs of patients with multiple chronic morbidities. <em></em></p><p class="Pa7"><em>Ethn Dis. </em>2017(27):189-200; doi:10.18865/ed.27.2.189</p><p><br /><strong> </strong></p>

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Holding the World Together - Abena P. A. Busia -- Introduction - Claire Robertson and Nwando Achebe -- Part I. Representations of and by African Women -- 1. Front and Center on the Global Stage: African Women in Contemporary Novels - Elizabeth M. Perego -- 2. Contrasting Visions: Filmic Representations of African Women - Cajetan Iheka -- Part II. Religion and Politics -- 3. Politico-Religious Systems and African Women's Power - Nwando Achebe -- 4. Colonialism and Resistance: Protests and National Liberation Movements - Kathleen Sheldon -- 5. Religious Fundamentalisms and Women in Contemporary Africa - Ousseina Alidou -- 6. African Women Organize - Alicia C. Decker and Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois -- 7. Women and Politics in Africa - Aili Mari Tripp -- Part III. Economy and Society -- 8. African Women in the Real Economy: Prehistoric, Precolonial, Colonial, and Contemporary Transitions - Gracia Clark -- 9. Women and Slavery: Changes and Continuities - Claire Robertson -- 10. Education for African Girls: Still Striving for Equality - Josephine Beoku-Betts -- 11. Urbanizing Women: Merging the Personal, Political, and Spatial - Teresa Barnes -- 12. Women and the New African Diaspora - Cassandra Veney -- Part IV. Love, Marriage, and Women's Bodies, Past and Present -- 13. Love, Marriage, and Families in Africa - Rachel Jean-Baptiste and Emily Burrill -- 14. Gender and Sexuality: Gradations, Contestations - Signe Arnfred -- 15. Violence against Women: Households, Wars, Refugees, and Resistance - Henryatta Ballah and December Green -- 16. African Women and Health: Evolving Challenges - Karen Flint -- Coda: Transforming Visions - Abena P. A. Busia -- Contributors -- Index.

In considering forced migration as a consequence of global conflict, women with refugee status are especially vulnerable. The influx of refugees into the United States, in this case, refugees from Africa, requires us to examine various aspects of what it means to be a refugee. Drawing upon current and extant literature, this article investigates the challenges faced by women refugees from Africa. A womanist framework is described and applied to four areas of resettlement experience including gendered expectations, trauma and mental health, economic self-sufficiency, and cultural integration. In addition, the policy assumptions of the Refugee Act of 1980 are contrasted with the realities and experiences of women refugees from Africa. Implications for social work practice, policy advocacy, and research are discussed.

The politics of culture, motherhood and mothering in some African communities highlight the tensions that exist in the broader feminist theology agenda. There are emerging politics between the able and disabled feminist theologians where the binary of ability or disability is ambiguously theologised. Written from a feminist theology of disability, this qualitative study sought to understand and describe the struggles women with visual impairment face to be accepted as being fit for motherhood. Emerging qualitative themes are used to develop towards an African women theology of disability that responds to the plight of women with disabilities. The findings indicate that women with disabilities are constantly challenging and protesting ableism perceptions of motherhood by falling pregnant, giving birth and nurturing their children. They argue that the binary perceptions of ability and disability are informed by patriarchal ideologies and able-bodied women's fears of being associated with the vulnerability of disability. ; http://www.indieskriflig.org.za ; am2019 ; Practical Theology

The article unwraps notions related to young African women's lifeworld experiences of physical disability. The study is positioned in the broad context of the theoretical frameworks of phenomenology, existential sociology, the social construction of reality, feminist disability theory, and intersectionality. Focus is given to the way social systems of cultural oppression and discrimination impact women with physical impairments and manifest in how they perceive and make meaning of their everyday life experiences. Women with physical impairments often experience a double measure of oppression—being both female and disabled. When these women try to engage in a normal life and interact with others, they experience barriers imposed on them by their social reality—particularly in the form of cultural norms and patriarchal ideals. There are also instances where participants demonstrate resilience in the face of negative social stereotyping, instances that clearly show that they are not different, and do not perceive themselves as being different to able-bodied women. Drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews with eight young Black women who are living with physical disabilities in Lesotho, the objective of this article is to examine their everyday life experiences within a predominantly able-bodied society.

Female, victim, agent: African women in war and conflict. Introduction: exploring African women and the war experience: a critical update / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- At the center, taking charge: disruptive discourse and female agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a yellow sun / by Jessie Sagawa -- An attempt at inclusion: reading the war theme in black Zimbabwean women texts / by Tendai Mangena -- The female body as locus for national trauma in the fiction of Yvonne Vera / by Melissa R. Root -- Fanta Nacro's Night of truth: the journey to the end of the night / by P. Julie Papaioannou -- Resilient strategies and reconstruction in Leonora Miano's literary writing / by Paul N. Touré -- Trauma, reintegration, healing: transcending the aftermath of wars and conflicts. Memoir versus fiction: narrating trauma in Girl soldier: a story of hope for Northern Uganda's children and thirty girls / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- "I just wanted to forget it all. but it was impossible:" Umutesi and the politics of testimony in surviving the slaughter: the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / by Emilie Diouf -- Victims' narratives versus perpetrators testimonies: understanding violence against women in armed conflicts in Africa / by Moussa Issifou -- Testimony as text: "performative vulnerability" and the limits of legalistic approaches to refugee protection / by Nanjala Nyabola

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study some of Lauren Beukes' feminine characters and to draw a parallel between them and some famous South African personalities presented in her non-fiction work Maverick: Extraordinary Women from South Africa's Past. To this end, I will analyse three of her novels, Moxyland (2008), Zoo City (2010) and The Shining Girls (2012), in order to draw attention to the part played by South African women in Apartheid and post-Apartheid society.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Women and Gender in Africa before 1700; 2 Market Traders, Queens, and Slaves in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 3 Religion and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century; 4 Colonial Era, 1850s to 1945: Work and Family; 5 Politics, Leadership, and Resistance to Colonialism until 1945; 6 Liberation Struggles and Politics from the 1950s to the 1970s; 7 Work, Family, and Urbanization from the 1970s to the 1990s; 8 Women and Politics after Independence; 9 Women at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G

Foreword -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Contextual and Conceptual Framework -- The Geographical Location -- Sociocultural Context -- Defining Leadership -- Conceptual Framework -- African Spirituality -- Resilience -- Servant Leadership -- Transformational Leadership -- Research Questions -- Rationale -- Significance of Study -- Delimitations and Limitation -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: African Women in Leadership: The Missing Link -- Leadership in Africa -- Leadership Theories -- Women in Leadership

The African liberation struggle fought against two intertwined forces, colonization and colonialism. The former implied physical occupation and dispossession of Africans' land, while the latter implied destruction of their culture. While "political independence" succeeded in an artificial and superficial sense in granting space for African cultural reclamation, this success presented little or no joy in restoring the dignified space that African women enjoyed in pre-colonial Africa. African women — in spite of the granting of "independence" and "freedom"— continue to be denied their freedom in African communities, and relegated to a second-class citizen status. I argue that if freedom is to have any significant meaning for Africans, it must prioritize the African cultural reclamation that puts African women in the center. This can and will be possible when Africans interrogate African philosophical assumptions about women's "place" in traditional Africa. A thorough exercise in this regard will assist in giving meaning to an African renaissance that will secure liberation not only for African men but also for women.