Women and development in Africa : how gender works

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Title:

Author:

Kevane, Michael.

ISBN:

9781588269799

9781588269805

Personal Author:

Kevane, Michael.

Edition:

Second edition.

Physical Description:

x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

1. Exploring Gender and Development -- 2. Women and Development in Africa -- 3. Models and Methods -- 4. The Land Tenure Rights of African Women -- 5. Constraints and Opportunities in the World of Work -- 6. The Marriage Market -- 7. Bargaining Power at Home -- 8. Preferring Sons over Daughters -- 9. The Gendering of Education -- 10. Getting Capital to Women -- 11. Emerging Movement For-and Against-Gender Equality.

Subject Term:

Women in development -- Africa.

Sex role -- Africa.

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Summary

This new edition of Women and Development in Africa incorporates the results of more than a decade of new empirical and theoretical research. Michael Kevane provides a broad overview of the sources of underdevelopment in Africa and the role of gender in economic transactions, as well as a cogent analysis of the gendered realities of such issues as land rights, the control of labor, the marriage market, health care, education, and political representation.