Cold Water: Women and Girls of Lira, UgandaBy:Julia Gentleman Byers (Eds) Release date:2015 Language:English
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Culture and Women: The Position of Women in BugandaBy:Frederick W. Jjuuko Release date:2011 Language:English
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Gender and Development: The Role of Religion and CultureBy:Alice P. Tuyizere This book defines gender in terms of religious and cultural concepts, and explains the impact of religion and culture, as well as gender and development in a patriarchal society. It views gender from a historical perspective, focusing on the gendered differentiation of roles and societal expectations, and relates this to violence and HIV/AIDS. This book also deliberates on women’s liberation movements and addresses issues of gender empowerment and development. Furthermore, the book discusses the various dominant faiths, including Hinduism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Baha’i faith and the various religious of the Near East, as well as those of ancient Greece and Rome. Finally, the book emphasises the need for gender mainstreaming in all government and NGO programmes to ensure that gender concerns and imbalances are addressed. <p> <b>About Author</b> <p> Alice P. Tuyizere teaches Religious Education Methods in the School of Education, Makerere University. Gender and Development is based on research she did for her PhD entitled ‘‘An analysis of Gender-based Violence as a Hindrance to Equity in South-western Uganda’’. Release date:2007 Language:English
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Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes RegionBy:Daley O. Patricia 'This work is an original and masterly contribution to African studies and the global literature on violence in the post-cold war era.' - Wendy James Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford Can Burundi achieve its political and economic objectives without returning to genocidal violence? Release date:2008 Language:English
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Gender, Politics and Constitution Making in UgandaBy:Miria Matembe Release date:2002 Language:English
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Global Exchanges and Gender Perspectives in AfricaBy:Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo Release date:2011 Language:English
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Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist women in Sub-Saharan AfricaBy:Munyae M. Malinge The term climate change is used to denote any significant but extended change in the measures of climate. The changes could be due to natural variability or as a result of human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy, deforestation, industrial processes, and some agricultural practices. Such activities release large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that hang like a blanket around the earth, thus trapping energy in the atmosphere and causing it to warm up. This results increasingly in climate variability, which is characterised by extreme seasonal, annual, temporal and non-spatial variability in temperature, vagaries of precipitation (rainfall patterns and amounts) and/or wind patterns occurring over a prolonged period of time. Release date:2012 Language:English
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Insights into gender equity, equality and power relations in Sub-Saharan AfricaBy:Mansah Prah Since gender entered the development discourse in the Seventies, African countries have increasingly taken the concept on board in policy and practice. This concern may be due to either one or a combination of the following factors: the ideological positioning of African countries, demands by their donors and development partners, and demands by organised local groups and NGOs. Gender in the development discourse ought to transform power relations between men and women and shift them to social relations that reflect their equal access to productive resources, opportunities and social and material benefits. The result of such actions should be an achievement of comparable status of women and men. This volume, initiated by OSSREA, seeks to examine in more depth, issues regarding the gender-power imbalance in sub-Saharan African countries, with a specific focus on the eastern and southern African regions Release date:2013 Language:English
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Language and Literacy in Uganda: Towards a Sustainable Reading CultureBy:Kate Parry Release date:2000 Language:English
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Localised or Localising Democracy:Gender and the Politics of Decentralisation in Contemporary UgandaBy:Josephine Ahikire This book examines the politics of inclusion of women in Uganda’s local government. The notion of local democracy in here is explored, not as an event or a product, but rather as a process within which gender power relations are a constitutive rather than a contingent ingredient. In terms of gender and as in other social inequalities, the local is neither essentialised nor romanticised. Rather, it is problematised, with local politics conceptualised as complex and dynamic. Contrary to the generally held view that decentralisation enables more participation by the unprivileged, including women, this book suggests that this is not always so. <p> <b>About Author</b> <p> Josephine Ahikire is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University; and a Senior research fellow with Centre for Basic Research (CBR) (in Kampala. She is a visiting scholar with the Department of Political Studies at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. Ahikire has worked on feminist political theory and has conducted research and she is widely published in the area of gendered constructions of public politics, labour and popular culture, among others. She recently completed a PhD on gender and local politics in Uganda at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johnnesburg, South Africa. Release date:2007 Language:English
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Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in KenyaBy:Lynn M Thomas By examining the political significance and complex ramifications of reproductive controversies in twentieth century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy has been crucial to the exercise of colonial and post colonial power. Release date:2005 Language:English
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Potential and Limitations of Affirmative Action as a Component of Gender MainstreamingBy:Deborah Kasente The books sets out to explore why affirmative action continues to draw controversy almost three decades after its implementation. It also attempts to discern why the policy is still considered meaningful reform,in spite of the varied understanding and appreciation that surrounds it. Release date:2011 Language:English
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The Social and Sexual Roles of Hima Women: A Study of Nomadic Cattle Breeders in Nyabushozi County, Ankole,UgandaBy:Yitzchak Elam The Social and Sexual Roles of Hima Women which focuses on the leisured lovemaking of the Hima women of Ankole in Uganda examines and explains a set of practices which has never before been researched by any other writer. It is written in opposition to Veblen's statement in The Theory of the Leisure Class that in many tribal societies women are drudges and men form a leisure class. Hima women are denied access to cattle: this separation in a society which prohibits agriculture and small livestock rearing, places them in an occupationally neutralised position. This separation results from a latent rivalry for cow-milk between calves and babies, the reproductive capacities of women being seen as a danger to those of cattle. The author examines the whole structure of Hima society and way of life in terms of this separation. He explains how it is necessary for men, since women are kept off the essential tasks of animal husbandry and defence, to collaborate in the performance of these tasks with members of their own or of other house holds who reside together in camps. Wives play an important role in this collaboration - their sexual favours are made available to camp associates and thus consolidate relationships within both the paternal household and the camp as a whole. In return for this a married woman is fed generously, defended and relieved of any hard work. The author examines in detail the successive stages in the life cycle of women, each stage being shaped by the opposition between womanhood and cattle. His step-by-step description of the wedding ceremonies, illuminated by a section of fi ne photographs, provides a fascinating study of ritual symbolism, a symbolism which, being attached to items of everyday use among the Hima, is related to all aspects of their lives. Yitzchak Elam is a professor in Social Anthropology in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Release date:2011 Language:English
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The Women's Movement In Uganda. History, Challenges, And ProspectsBy:Aili Mari Tripp Release date:2002 Language:English
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When Hens Begin to Crow: Gender and Parliamentary Politics in UgandaBy:Sylvia Tamale Release date:1999 Language:English
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Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to BoardroomBy:Margaret Snyder Release date:2000 Language:English
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Women Refugees in Uganda: Gender Relations, Livelihood, Security and Reproductive HealthBy:Deborah Mulumba Release date:2010 Language:English
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Women Violence and Traditional: Tracking FGM and Other Practices to a Secular StateBy:Tamsin Bradley Release date: Language:English
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Women's Access to Higher Education in AfricaBy:Joy C. Kwesiga BackList Release date:2002 Language:English
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Women's Land Right and Privatisation in Eastern AfricaBy:Birgit Englert This volume focuses on the impact on womens' land rights from the contemporary drive towards the formulation and implementation of land tenure reforms which aim primarily at the private registration of land. It is all solidly grounded in the findings from seven case studies, all based on in depth qualitative research from various regions of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. 'This is an exciting new collection from an impressive generation of young scholars. Their focus on Eastern Africa makes great sense geographically, historically and thematically for the countries discussed in this volume have all undergone similar land reform and privatization processes in recent years.' - Robin Palmer in the Foreword Release date: Language:English
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Women's Violent Crime in Uganda: More Sinned Against than sinningBy:Lilian Tibatemwa Ekirikubinza Release date:1999 Language:English
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