Beyond women's empowerment in Africa: exploring dislocation and agency

This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge. INDICE: - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Understanding Dislocation: Concepts and Claims - Women's Knowledge Systems: Toward Ambivalence and Silences - Speaking through Fashion: Khanga as Women's Knowledge System - Inside Society: The Role of Women's Knowledge Systems in Africa's Development - The Genesisof Women Disempowerment: the Case of Kilimanjaro - Knowledge is Power and Power is Knowledge: The Politics of Women's Empowerment - Conclusion - Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10248-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés