Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The State of Women’s Representation in the Politics of South Africa and Cameroon After More Than Two Decades of Democracy
(Gladys M. Ashu, Department of Social Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Chapter 2. Gender, Politics and Transformation in Ghana: The Role of ‘Critical Actors’
(Diana Højlund Madsen, Senior Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden and Research Fellow, University of the Free State, South Africa)
Chapter 3. Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Drum Magazine as a Leisure Reading Initiator for the Acceptance of Eurocentric Beauty Amongst Black South African Women
(Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi and Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi, Southern Business School, Johannesburg, South Africa, and others)
Chapter 4. Sustainable Empowerment Following Disaster: A Case of Marriage-Migrant Women in the 2011 Tohoku Disaster
(Shinya Uekusa and Sunhee Lee, 1School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark)
Chapter 5. White Female Bystanders’ Responses to Risk for Incapacitated Rape: Effects of Victim Race and Intergroup Contact on Barriers to Intervention
(Jennifer Katz and Kimberly Baktis, Psychology Department, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, US)
Chapter 6. ”Disembodiment” and Domestic Violence: An Intersection for Feminist Theory and Development Practice
(Nadeen ElAshmawy, Hertford College, the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Chapter 7. Gender Based Violence in Contemporary Namibia: an Unsaid Tale of Changing Male-Female Power Relationships
(Bruno Venditto, PhD, Rachel Ndinelao Amaambo, PhD, and Christian Hamutenya Nekare, Institute for the Studies on the Mediterranean, National Research Council of Italy Naples, Italy, and others)
Chapter 8. Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer: An Afrofuturist Vision of Empowerment for Black Girls and Young Women
(Saskia M. Fürst, PhD, Department of English Studies, University of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas)
Chapter 9. Women’s Profiles: First Generation of Spanish Civil War Republican Exiles Who Returned to Spain
(Mauricio Escobar Deras and Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, PhD, Instituto de Migraciones, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, and others)
Index