Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

Author

Leslie T. Chang

Description

Examines entrepreneurship, globalization, and repression through the lives of three women trying to make a living in the textile industry.

Year

2024

Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa

Author

Ulandi du Plessis and Catriona Ida Macleod

Description

Examines the balance between confidentiality, cost, and access to abortion services in three rural districts.

Year

2024

Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique

Author

Christy K. Schuetze

Description

Based on fieldwork in Pentecostal churches in central Mozambique.

Year

2023

Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

Author

Serena Owusua Dankwa

Description

Focuses on the everyday lives of women through ties of friendship, kinship, and sexuality.

Year

2021

Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Post-liberation: The Cultural Turn in Algeria

Author

Marnia Lazreg

Description

Examines interactions between culture, religion, and the state.

Year

2021

Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies

Editor

Egodi Uchendu and Ngozi Edeagu

Description

Focuses on the political and socioeconomic effects of patriarchy and what policies at the state and national levels could provide greater freedom to women.

Year

2021

Selling Sex in Kenya: Gendered Agency under Neoliberalism

Author

Eglė Česnulytė

Description

Based on interviews with sex workers in Mombasa and Nairobi.

Year

2020

The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Walls

Author

Serena Natile

Description

Case study of M-Pesa—a mobile banking and financial services program in Kenya created to meet the needs of people living in poverty and other excluded citizens—and the implications of using it as a model to improve gender equity.

Year

2020

Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture

Author

Simidele Dosekun

Description

Based on interviews with 19 women in Lagos, Nigeria, who present themselves in an ornate style meant to be noticed.

Year

2020

The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa

Author

Michelle Pentecost

Description

Focuses on how to support women and their infants during the first 1000 days after birth.

Year

2024