Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women: (Routledge International Handbooks)

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The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women highlights the achievements and progress being made by African women across a wide range of sectors in society. Without glossing over the very real challenges which women in Africa continue to face, this landmark handbook demonstrates how women across the continent are deploying their agency to achieve notable progress in areas as diverse as: Pandemics Climate Change Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Higher Education Youth & Older People Challenging prevailing narratives and stereotypes about African women, this handbook provides a more positive perspective into African women’s progressive actions for sustainable development. It will be an essential read for readers across the fields of gender, environment, political science, history, development studies, religious studies and African Studies.

Table of Contents:
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction 1: Contemporary African Women: An Appreciation SECTION 2: EMPOWERING IMAGES OF AFRICAN WOMEN IN LITERARY WORKS 2: ‘Like flowers blooming from an ice bucket’: Contemporary Anglophone Cameroonian Women Writers 3: Sex, Resistance and Agency: (Queer) Young Women in Selected North African Novels and Films 4: African Women’s Autonomy as Represented in Selected African Literature 5: Interrogating the Contradictory Portrayal of Women in African Drama Using Uche Nwaozuzu’s Ajari and Ebibi SECTION 3: AFRICAN WOMEN NAVIGATING MULTIPLE PANDEMICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 6: Women, Spirituality/Religion, and Pandemics in Africa 7: Feminine Wisdom as a Resource for Facing Pandemics in Africa 8: Catholic Religious Women and COVID-19: Tracing the Role of Sr Astridah Banda -A Dominican Religious Sister - in Curbing the Pandemic in Zambia 9: Christian Women and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria 10: Women’s Leadership in the Face of COVID-19: The Case of Agnes Mahomva in Zimbabwe 11: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s Rhetorical Leadership: The Fight to Rebuild Liberia, Empower Women and Conquer Ebola 12: Young African Women’s Responses to the Impact of Climate Change 13: Catholic Women Navigating the Challenges of Climate Change in Rural Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach SECTION 4: DEFYING THE ODDS: AFRICAN WOMEN IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS 14: Overcoming Difficulties as a Woman Scientist in Africa 15: The Trajectory of Rwandan Women in Science and Technology: From the Colonial Period to the Digital Era (1894 – 2023) 16: DePatriarchalizing the Media Coverage of Science in Uganda: Recovering Women’s Voices 17: African Women and Leadership in Science Academies 18: Eastern Market Women Activism in Colonial Nigeria: A Historical Perspective 19: Globalization and African Women: Challenges and Opportunities 20: Pathways to Power: Religiosity, Economic Opportunities, and IlParakuyo Maasai Women SECTION 5: AFRICAN WOMEN IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ACADEMIA AND POLITICS 21: Thriving in New Lands: Migrant Women Doing Business in South Africa 22: Church Women and Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, Western Diocese 23: The Role of Young Women in Promoting Economic Development in Africa 24: Women in Higher Education Management in Africa: Trends, Policies and Practices 25: An Unbalanced Equation: Exploring Gender Disparity among Academics in Southeast Universities, Nigeria 26: Women’s Political Participation and the Place of Patriarchy in Political Institutions in Osun State, Nigeria 27: Young Professional Women’s Performative Agency in Challenging Media (Mis) Representations of Women in Politics: The Case of Zimbabwe SECTION 6: AFRICAN WOMEN THRIVING IN HISTORICAL TIMES, OLDER AGE, DIPLOMACY AND RELIGION 28: Empowering Images of Older Women in African Literature 29: Women’s Experiences of Growing Older in a Rural Economy in Ghana 30: The Role of Elderly Women in Botswana: A Perspective from African Theological Feminist Gerontolgy 31: Young African Women’s leadership in Religious Studies and Theology: A Review with Special Reference to the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal 32: Aluta Continua! African Women Theologians’ Contributions to Inclusive Theological Education: Towards the African Union’s Agenda 2063 33: Calling the Church to Account: A Theological Response to the Silent Pandemic of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Women in Nigeria’s Mainline Evangelical Churches 34: African Women in Diplomacy and the Quest for Gender Justice


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781032538181
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 526
  • Series Title: Routledge International Handbooks
  • Weight: 1119 gr
  • ISBN-10: 103253818X
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jan 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Width: 174 mm


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