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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828856203321

Titolo

Global exchanges and gender perspectives in Africa / / edited by Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo, Roseline M. Achieng'

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, : Codesria

Kampala, : Fountain Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-280-12745-7

9786613531339

2-86978-525-9

2-86978-524-0

2-86978-526-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

CODESRIA series

Altri autori (Persone)

OuedraogoJean-Bernard <1958->

Achieng'Roseline M

Disciplina

305.4096

Soggetti

Sex role and globalization - Africa

Globalization - Social aspects - Africa

Women - Africa - Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introductions Gender in a Global Market Society; 2. The Difference in the System of the Self: A Philosophical Contribution to the Gender Approach; 3. ""Celebrating"" the female Body in Global Trade: Fashion, Media and Music in Kenya; 4. The Impact of Globalization on Women Peasants and Traders in Nigeria's Delta Region (1986-2002); 5. Globalization and the Question of Women Smugglers in East Africa: Observations of a Cross Kenya-Uganda Boundary (1980-2002); 6. Gender and Fair Trade in Cameroon

7. Trade and Information Systems: The Case of Wrap Sellers in Brazzaville (Congo)8. The Role of Social Capital in the Establishment and Sustenance of Women's MIcro-businesses: A Case Study of Butere-Mumias District, Kenya; 9. Gender, Trade Liberalization and the Multilateral trading System: Towards an African Perspective; Back cover



Sommario/riassunto

The global perspectives adopted in this volume by the authors, from different academic disciplines and social experiences, ought not to be locked in sterile linearity which within process of globalisation would fail to perceive, the irreversible opening up of the worlds of the south. There is the need within the framework of the analyses presented here, to quite cogently define the sense of the notion of the market. The market here does not refer to saving or the localised exchange of goods, a perspective which is imposed by normative perceptions. In fact, a strictly materialistic reading of