Overview
- Contains empirical case studies that highlight the real world challenges of women in Africa
- Presents a critical and interdisciplinary look at gender and development in Africa
- Explores and challenges traditional ideas surrounding the female empowerment
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Gendered economic development
- Economic empowerment of women
- African economic development
- Marginalisation within capitalism
- Women's access to land
- Gender and development
- Gender roles and economic inclusion
- Gender and public policy
- Gender-differentiated land rights
- Gender justice
- Gender based violence
- Colonial capitalism
About this book
This book explores the issues and challenges of gender and development in Africa. The current needs of women in Africa are connected with the possible future emancipation of women from institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty to overcome gendered development processes and patriarchal economic policies at work. The role of legal, political, cultural, religious, and economic institutions in development are examined to highlight marginalisation within uneven development processes embedded with capitalism. Broader development issues, such as property rights, food security, accessibility of resources, and environmental change, are also discussed.
This book aims to reimagine African development from an issue-based perspective that moves beyond gender stereotypes and narrow silo of patriarchal development. The volume is relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, development and feminist economics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Economy of Gender and Development in Africa
Book Subtitle: Mapping Gaps, Conflicts and Representation
Editors: Bhabani Shankar Nayak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18829-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18828-2Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18831-2Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18829-9Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 223
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Development Economics, African Economics, Agricultural Economics