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“Demystifying Sex Work and Sex Workers”

Special Issue for Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies

Edited by Susan Dewey, Ph.D.

University Studies, DePauw University

 
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v.6, 2008, Special Issue: Women's Activism for Gender Equality in Africa

The authors focus on women's activism throughout Africa within a transnational and cross-cultural context. This edition expands traditional concepts of activism and adds to a broader awareness of how gender is articulated within social movements, governments and other social institutions.
This Volume is a joint production with the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS), Vo. 10(1), 2008: http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/JIWS/

Table of Contents

Special Issue

Editorial pdf html
Kathryn Russell, Colleen Kattau
Women and Leadership Positions: Social and Cultural Barriers to Success Abstract pdf html
Josephine Kiamba
Drawing from the Wells of Culture: Grace Onyango and the Kenyan Political Scene (1964-1983) Abstract pdf html
Phoebe Musandu
The Autonomy of Ugandan Women’s Organizations: How it Matters in Creating and Maintaining a Dependable Democracy Abstract pdf html
Caroline Tushabe
A Puppet on a String: The Manipulation and Nationalization of the Female Body in the “Female Circumcision Crisis” of Colonial Kenya Abstract pdf html
Sara Boulanger
Accessing Housing Finance in South Africa: The Role of Women Activism Abstract pdf html
Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke Uzodike
Acceptance: Living With HIV/AIDS: An Interview with Video Producer Paul van der Veur pdf html
Jean Young

General Issue

Still Seeking for Something": The Unspeakable (Loss) in "Passing" by Nella Larsen Abstract pdf html
Agnieszka Mrozik
Gender and Ethnicity in Banda’s Malawi Abstract pdf html
Edwin Segal

Book Reviews

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua by Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Duke University Press, 2005 pdf html
Brett Troyan
Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin Group, New York, 2006 pdf html
Elizabeth Boze
Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria by Lisa A. Lindsay, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 2003 pdf html
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway, Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL, 2007. pdf html
Tim Gerhard