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This book examines women's political communication in Africa, capturing previously unheard women's voices, and presenting detailed information on overlooked communication strategies and forms of power relations employed by African women and women of African descent. By examining the disputes, accomplishments and/or setbacks experienced by women in political spaces, it underscores feminist intersections of political communication in Africa. It also explores the glamor, humor, harmony and tact that women as state and non-state actors have contributed to Africa's political landscape through the realities of female soft power. The book addresses issues concerning how and why women do and should participate in politics; at what level they have employed political communication strategies; and which types. It also questions ideas and ideals that have guided or continue to guide feminist political communication in Africa's growing democracy. Lastly, it highlights African women's conscious approach and rejuvenated interest in developing their communication skills and strategies given their vital role in state-building.-- Back cover

«Modernidad líquida», «fin de los grandes relatos», «sociedad del espectáculo», derrota ideológica, declive del Estado-nación, auge del consumismo, triunfo del individuo y crisis del ciudadano… el mundo actual parece haberse transformado desde hace tiempo en un lugar incómodo para las izquierdas. Aunque se ha escrito mucho sobre la crisis «del sistema», esta tiene como correlato una inédita dificultad para imaginar otros mundos posibles. Las reconfiguraciones políticas de los últimos años ameritan un examen y una reflexión sobre el pensamiento crítico y las experiencias de cambio actuales, en un registro que preste atención a las experiencias políticas y gubernamentales así como a la producción teórica, dos esferas cada vez más distanciadas. (Nueva Soc/GIGA)

"Leading scholars discuss how 'Islam' and 'liberalism' have been entwined historically and politically and how Muslims have thought about this longstanding relationship. Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilisational fault-line between the Muslim world and the West, however, this relationship also offers the potential for consensus and the possibility of moral and political engagement or compatibility. The existence or extent of this correspondence tends to preoccupy academic as much as popular accounts of such a relationship. This volume looks however to the way in which Muslim politics and society are defined beyond and indeed after it. Reappraising the 'first wave' of Islamic liberalism during the nineteenth century, the book describes the long and intertwined histories of these categories across a large geographical expanse. By drawing upon the contributions of scholars from a variety of disciplines -- including philosophy, theology, sociology, politics and history -- it explores how liberalism has been criticised and refashioned by Muslim thinkers and movements, to assume a reality beyond the abstractions that define its compatibility with Islam." (Publisher's description)

1. Quo Vadis Women's and Gender Studies in Africa?. - 2. Women and Society in Female Authored Short Stories and Poems From Namibia. - 3. Local Contexts, Local Theory. - 4. Reinforcement Or Transformation. - 5. Women as Mediators in South Africa. - 6. African Marriages in Transformation. - 7. LGBTI Rights and Experiences in Three Southern African Nations. - 8. Women, Education and Sustainable Development in Sudan. - 9. Women in Teaching and Educational Administration in Kenya. - 10. Women and Entrepreneurship Development: The Case of South Africa. - 11. Women and Small Scale Entrepreneurship. - 12. Women, Land Use, Property Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe. - 13. The Role of Women in Political Decision Making in East and Southern Africa. - 14. Gender and HIV in Namibia. - 15. Women and State Violence in Zimbabwe, 2000-2008