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Der Artikel thematisiert das Problem der Gewalt gegen Frauen in der ghanaischen Gesellschaft und die öffentliche Auseinandersetzung darüber und benennt anhand von Fallbeispielen einige Formen dieser Gewalt. Die Rechtsstellung von Frauen in der Öffentlichkeit wird durch die Rechtspraxis bei Vergewaltigungen und das Verhalten öffentlicher Stellen gegenüber Prostituierten dargelegt und kritisiert. Im familiären Bereich sind Frauen ebenfalls körperlicher Gewaltanwendung wie Vergewaltigungen ausgesetzt. Der Tatbestand der erzwungenen Prostitution im Ausland wird durch Beispiele ghanaischer Frauen in der Bundesrepublik belegt. (DÜI-Spl)

In the global South there is potential for politics to marginalize the diverse perspectives of subaltern communities. Exploring ongoing and new feminist dialogues in the global South, this book examines the ways in which dominant epistemologies are challenged, unique identities formed, and the implications for the global feminist agenda.

AbstractDuring the International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, United Nations bodies made concerted efforts to ensure global awareness and understanding of the IWY aims of equality, peace and development, via the mass media. In this article, we engage with these strategies of global information distribution from the vantage point of Ghana, West Africa. Drawing from interviews with women journalists and examples from the women's pages of the national state‐owned Daily Graphic newspaper, we argue that the onset of the IWY presented an important opportunity for women living under the constraints of military rule. A small but determined group of journalists capitalised on a longer history of readers writing into newspapers, and on lower levels of government surveillance of women's pages. Working with and through multi‐layered forms of address, they adapted the homey, gossipy women's pages and turned them into spaces of engagement between men and women as co‐citizens. During the IWY, connections were forged between international events and agendas and 'domestic issues'. By hosting older debates about widowhood, inheritance and polygyny, and newer debates about family planning, formal education and employment, the women's pages positioned Ghanaian women as a key constituency in national development, but also enabled more assertive critiques of men's privileges.

Transatlantic Feminisms examines the gendered complexities of African and African diaspora worlds. This book includes striking accounts of women's strategies to challenge, circumvent, or manage threats to their survival from such forces as patriarchal political regimes, militarism and violence, migration, displacement, and unrelenting poverty.