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.
1 Introduction: African Women in Cultural, Political and Public
Spaces.-Part I Nigerian Women in Cultural Spaces.-2 Ethno-Cultural
Construction of Femininity in Igbo Folklore.-3 Women as the Unsung
Breadwinners in Igbo Cosmology in Chinua Achebes Things FallApart and Arrow
of God.-4 Women as Agents of Change in Some Dance Traditions of Orogun People
of Delta State .-5 The Dynamics of Traditional Power Structure: Women,Culture
and Leadership in Achebes Things Fall Apart .-Part II Nigerian Women and
Media Engagements.-6 Female Engagement and Nollywood in Postmodern Africa.-7
Gender Issues in the Nigerian Public Relations Profession.-8 Influence of
Television Viewing on Eating DisordersAmong Female Nigerian Undergraduates of
Universities of Jos and Lagos.-9 Audience Perception of the Role of Culture
and Media in Gender Stereotypes in Nigerian Television Commercials.-10 ICT as
a Tool for Womens Empowerment.-Part III African Women and Legal
Frameworks.-11 Towards Womens Career Advancements: The Banality of
Recognition of Marital Rape in Nigeria.-12 Leadership and Gender Diversity on
Corporate Boardin Nigeria.-13 Customary Law of Succession in Nigeria:
Rethinking the Legal Status of Women.-14 The Objectives of Gender Studies in
Translation.-15 Social Media Re-victimization and Stigmatization of Sexual
Assault Victims: Exploring the Representation and Social Reactions of Sexual
Assault Cases in Nigeria
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.
