Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)

by: Mobolanle Sotunsa (Editor),Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu(Editor)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 24 Nov. 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 304 pages

ISBN-10: 3031405811

ISBN-13: 9783031405815

Book Description

This book will provide empirical engagements of African women in the private and public spaces and their adaptations, alterations and and integration of the private and public spaces. This approach is contrary to most existing studies which may not necessarily provide contextual and empirical evidences of the debates about the spaces of women or interrogate both the private and public spaces in a single volume. This book will offer a novel insight into gender and power dynamics, especially as it relates to the cultural spaces, private spaces and public spaces which African women occupy and subjugate. The fourteen papers in this book critically examine the African women in different positions within the private and public spaces, the strong inhibiting presence of patriarchy, and the resistance women display to empower themselves.