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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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| Posted: 2009-11-05 |
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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/
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Special Issue
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Kathryn Russell, Colleen Kattau |
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| Women and Leadership Positions: Social and Cultural Barriers to Success
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Josephine Kiamba |
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| Drawing from the Wells of Culture: Grace Onyango and the Kenyan Political Scene (1964-1983) |
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Phoebe Musandu |
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| The Autonomy of Ugandan Women’s Organizations: How it Matters in Creating and Maintaining a Dependable Democracy |
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Caroline Tushabe |
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| A Puppet on a String: The Manipulation and Nationalization of the Female Body in the “Female Circumcision Crisis” of Colonial Kenya |
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Sara Boulanger |
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| Accessing Housing Finance in South Africa: The Role of Women Activism |
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Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke Uzodike |
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| Acceptance: Living With HIV/AIDS: An Interview with Video Producer Paul van der Veur |
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Jean Young |
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General Issue
| Still Seeking for Something": The Unspeakable (Loss) in "Passing" by Nella Larsen |
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Agnieszka Mrozik |
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| Gender and Ethnicity in Banda’s Malawi |
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Edwin Segal |
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Book Reviews
| From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua by Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Duke University Press, 2005 |
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Brett Troyan |
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| Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin Group, New York, 2006 |
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Elizabeth Boze |
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| Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria by Lisa A. Lindsay, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 2003 |
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Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo |
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| Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway, Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL, 2007. |
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Tim Gerhard |
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