Factors Affecting Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa

Factors Affecting Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 1993-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 030904944X

This book discusses current trends in contraceptive use, socioeconomic and program variables that affect the demand for and supply of children, and the relationship of increased contraceptive use to recent fertility declines.

Gender, Livelihoods and Migration in Africa

Gender, Livelihoods and Migration in Africa
Author: Justina Dugbazah
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1465382941

This book presents an in-depth discussion within diverse contexts and a range of conceptual and methodological offerings, which interrogate not only issues concerning the migration discourse, but of gender theory and practice as well. It explores the gendered patterns of migration including how gender impacts on decisions to migrate in terms of who goes and why. Furthermore it examines how this affects the benefits and risks of migration for women and men, including impact on gender relations. The books empirical analysis is expertly crafted and executed, and the author shows an impressive state-of-the-art qualitative research analysis. This book provides an invaluable, up-to-date and refreshing discussion of key development issues in sub-Saharan Africa. The book will be of particular interest to those working in disciplines, and interdisciplinary fields such as development studies, agricultural studies, rural development, migration studies, gender studies, African studies, anthropology, political science, political economy, social work, economics, geography, and sociology.

African Families in a Global Context

African Families in a Global Context
Author: Göran Therborn
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789171065360

The family is one of the most important institutions of African societies. Where is it going today? How is it affected by global processes, cultural and political as well as economic? How does it compare with family developments in other parts of the world? These are questions which this book addresses. The contributors deal with the African family in a comparative global context, focusing on patriarchy, sexuality and marriage, and fertility; biological and social reproduction in Ghana under conditions of globalization and structural adjustment; Nigerian marriage relations under the impact of current conditions and; family changes in the North (Britain) from a family perspective of the South (South Africa).

The Experiences of Ghanaian Live-in Caregivers in the United States

The Experiences of Ghanaian Live-in Caregivers in the United States
Author: Martha Donkor
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1498564461

Using the convergence of the impact of globalization and political turmoil in Ghana on Ghanaian women as a backdrop, this book examines the migration of the women to the US and their decisions to care for upper middle class white seniors who elected to stay in their homes to be cared for by private caregivers. The book explores the attraction of domestic care work, the women’s perceptions of their job, their relationships with their clients, and the dynamics of their relationships with their immediate families and families left behind in Ghana. It also analyzes the women’s interactions with the immigrant community from their remote work sites. The book examines widely-held beliefs about domestic work as undervalued, under-remunerated, and relegated to marginalized immigrant women of color. While admitting that these problems exist, the women whose stories are told in the book did not believe that their brand of care work, which they called private practice, was undervalued or underpaid. They also did not think that racism played a role in the concentration of immigrant women of color in domestic care work as widely believed, although, again, the women admitted that there was racism in American society. By doing so, the women symbolically placed themselves beyond the institutional barriers that constrain the lives of women of color in American society. And while it addresses common themes like exploitation, abuse, restriction of movement, etc. that other studies of immigrant live-in caregiving address, this book stands out in two major ways. First is its truly transnational character. It links the women’s background in Ghana to their immigration history and how these two influenced their choice as well as perceptions of care work and then loops their experience of care work back to expectations in Ghana. Second, the book validates the women’s voices as a product of their cultural background, thus making the case that the women’s choices and experiences were informed by conditions in the US and the cultural baggage the women brought with them. The book argues that private care work satisfied women’s financial expectations, and with that, leverage in their families.

Entrepreneurship in Africa

Entrepreneurship in Africa
Author: Moses E. Ochonu
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0253032628

A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explores the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.

For the City Yet to Come

For the City Yet to Come
Author: Abdou Maliqalim Simone
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2004-10-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780822334453

DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div

A Place to Live

A Place to Live
Author: Ann Schlyter
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1996
Genre: Discrimination in housing
ISBN: 9789171063885

Be it a house or a makeshift, a shared or rented room, or a home of one's own, a place to live is central in the survival strategies of all urban households. In this volume the above authors explore the gendered experiences of housing and housing rights in African countries. The collection begins with articles on conceptual and methodological problems in gender-aware research. The following articles present cases showing a wide variety in housing experiences, a variety which depends on urban setting, tenure forms, stage in the life cycle or other factors. There are many differences but also many similarities in the pattern of women not having the same access and control over housing as men have. While women are often the main bread-winners, they are also the home-makers, in the literal sense that it is women who put intense efforts into making a place home.

Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research
Author: John Caldwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2023-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000929183

Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. The essays bridge the gap in the conceptualisation and organisation of field research by 2 sets of social scientists – demographers and social anthropologists – who share an interest in the explanation of particular patterns of population composition and change.

An Inquiry Into Well-being and Destitution

An Inquiry Into Well-being and Destitution
Author: Partha Dasgupta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0198288352

An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology. It has been widely recognized as aseminal work presenting a wide-ranging description of the causes and remedies of poverty and undernourishment, and addressing the current debate over methods of estimating their incidence.