Africa – CODESRIA Bulletin – Social Sciences – Gender
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: December 3, 2007
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CODESRIA: http://www.codesria.org/Links/Home/our_mission.htm
Council for the Development of
Social Science Research in Africa
Included in the CODESRIA Mission
Statement:
Encourage inter-generational and
gender-sensitive dialogues in the African academy as a further investment of
effort in the promotion of awareness of and capacity in the use of different prospectives for knowledge production;
CODESRIA BULLETIN
Number 1& 2, 2006
Contents / Sommaire
Editorial
1
To My
Mother,
Camara Laye3
Making Gains with Women’s Rights:
One Step Forward, Two or Three Steps Back,
Amanda Gouws4
Looking Back, Moving Forward:
Reflections on Forum ’85,
Mshai S. Mwangola6
Which Way Forward? Gender
Theories, Debates and Practice after the Nairobi and Beijing Conferences,
Catherine Wawasi Kitetu8
Declarations
upon Declarations:When Shall Women Experience Real Change?,
Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo10
Women, Citizenship and Governance,
Penda Mbow12
Women and the Making of Electoral
Substance,
Onalenna Doo Selolwane14
Foregrounding Women’s Agency in
Africa’s Democratisation Process,
Jacinta Ndambuki17
Madam
President: The Changing Gender Dynamics of African Politics,
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza20
African
Women and Ageing: Nairobi, Beijing, and the Implications for African Gender
Scholarship
Isabella Aboderin23
Sexuality,
African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity: Expanding the Lens,
Ifi Amadiume26
Globalisation of Sex and the
Problematics of Gender Identities in Africa: From Human Rights to
Women’s Rights to Sexual Freedom,
Babere
Kerata Chacha and Kenneth Nyangena29
The Dark
Shadow of Masculinities and Women’s Emancipation Agenda,
James Ogola Onyango36
‘Some
Women Are Stubborn’: Power, Violence against Women and the Challenges of
Religion,
Olutoyin Mejiuni38
Righting
the Wrong and Writing the Law in Cameroon: Fumbuen Women Against Fon Simon
Vugah II,
Susanna Yene Awasom41
Notes on
Transformative Feminism in Tanzania,
Demere Kitunga and Marjorie
Mbilinyi46
Legalising
Cairo: Prospects and Opportunities for Reproductive Rights in Nigeria,
Nkolika Ijeoma Aniekwu49
Kamiko
Wants to Know the Challenges of the Working Woman in Africa,
Jane-Frances Agbu52
Plenty
Done, Plenty More to Do: Women’s Involvement in Politics and Decision-making
in Uganda,
Jacqueline Asiimwe-Mwesige55
The
Education of Girls in Kenya: Looking Back and Still Looking Forward,
Helen Omondi Mondoh & Jedidah
Mujidi58
Access to
Land in Post-apartheid South Africa: Implications for the South African Black
Woman,
Mike A. Yanou61
Gender
Equality and Food Security: A Development Myth,
Mirjam de Bruijn63
Engendering
Gender Studies in Africa,
Jude Fokwang65
Women
Writing Africa,
Alice Macdonald69
And Hens
Began to Crow: Young African Women Engage the Public Sphere,
Roseline Achieng’70
The
Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women75
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