Overview
- Offers a novel insight into Nigerian women's gender and power dynamics
- Documents the contributions of Nigerian women to nation building at the micro and macro levels
- Identifies and critiques some of the challenges Nigerian women continue to experience in a patriarchal society
Part of the book series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (GCSAD)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Nigerian Women in Cultural Spaces
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Nigerian Women and Media Engagements
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African Women and Legal Frameworks
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mobolanle Sotunsa has authored and (co)edited several volumes including Feminism and Gender Discourse: The African Experience, Women in Africa: Contexts, Rights, Hegemonies, Gender Culture and Development in Africa, Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Africa, and Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola.
Anthonia Makkwemoisa Yakubu is Associate Professor of Gender and Oral Literature at National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, autobiography, film, and oral folklore, and she has published a number of papers in these subject areas, including editing a 4-volume biographical compendium on African women.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces
Editors: Mobolanle Sotunsa, Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu
Series Title: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40582-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40581-5Published: 24 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40584-6Due: 07 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40582-2Published: 23 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3793
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 279
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Culture, Gender Studies, African Politics