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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"African Feminism"”.
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The Secret Lives of Polygamous Wives: African Feminist Consciousness and Writing in Selected Nigerian Polygamous Narratives
… Shoneyin, Adébáyọ̀ and Emecheta demonstrate African feminist theory and consciousness in writing women characters in these novels. These authors not only expose patriarchal systems but also write women characters in ways that distance them from past, static, and stereotypical representations …
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Intersectionality in Organisations: Exploring the Relationships between Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Women’s Work in a Postcolonial African Space.
… intersectionality with Postcolonial and African feminisms creates a theoretical framework capable of highlighting the interactions between organisational structures, sociocultural attitudes to gender and ethno-religious affiliations framed by colonial legacies and postcolonial policies, …
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Dominating the Disease: A Transnational Feminist Perspective of U.S. Health Coloniality
… communication scholarship from cultural studies, feminism, rhetoric, and health. Using a transnational feminist rhetorical analysis this project proposes an approach to analyzing international campaigns with a critical perspective to reveal the messages that sustain a Western male hierarchy across …
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The feminisation of poverty and victimhood in Dangarembga's print oeuvre: Cyclical evocations of nervous conditions, survival, and agency
… No Longer Weeps (1987). The researcher employed Africana Womanism, STIWANISM, and Nego-feminism literary theories to underpin this study, from examining the complex position that African women face in the light of detrimental effects of colonisation and its impact and legacy as it integrates with …
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Performing Black Feminisms in Diasporic Contexts: Sub-Saharan Women Negotiating Identity across Cultures
… diasporic subjects, specifically, Sub-Saharan African women living in the U.S., must simultaneously take into account cultural parameters of their home country and host culture. I use the term “Black feminisms” as an umbrella term to advocate for an interdisciplinary approach to Black feminist …
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She stays and she pays: Rural Women’s Labour and Empowerment in Atakora, Northern Benin
… of the sexual division of labour in the rural African household in Atakora, and presents the potential to expand the concept of women's `double burden’ to include the reputational burden of covering for economically inactive husbands in public. Secondly, when `empowerment’ is deconstructed into …
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An African feminist analysis on the experiences of black African immigrant men in Cape Town, South Africa
… positions the importance of utilizing Decolonial African Feminist theorizations in migration studies towards rendering visible men and masculinities in research on African mobilities. This research study focuses on deconstructing taken-for-granted assumptions of what it means to be a black …
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"I Came to America, Crying": Rebuilding a Life, Redefining the Self—Ethiopian Women Refugees in Denver (Colorado) (2012–2013)
<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the challenges faced by Ethiopian women in the Denver community to reach harmony within their new social and cultural space and to examine what they feel they have lost and gained in their self-identity as a result of their immigration. Refugees face a …
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Assessing South Africa’s rape laws against due diligence criteria
… within South Africa’s rape laws, employing African feminist theory and international due diligence standards as analytical frameworks. The research explores the enduring influence of patriarchal biases in the South African judicial system and their disproportionate impact on female rape …