Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works

✍ Scribed by Michael Kevane

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 341
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This second 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.

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