Grace, Tenacity and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Africa

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Title:	Grace, Tenacity and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Africa
Editors:	Burnett, Patrick Karmali, Shereen Manji, Firoze
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	2007
Pages:	223
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Oxford
Publisher:	Fahamu & Solidarity for African Women's Rights
ISBN:	0954563727; 9780954563721
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	women's rights articles (form) Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Religion and Witchcraft
Abstract:	The articles in this collection on the struggle for women's rights in Africa first appeared in the weekly electronic newsletter 'Pambazuka News'. The articles are grouped under the following headings: Campaigning for womens' rights; Moving the protocol from paper to reality; Women, health and food security; Women and conflict (various contributions on Sudan); Women and Islam; Women and the Jacob Zuma trial (in South Africa); and Comments and analyses (on the SADC gender journey, sexual violence in Kenya, the Ugandan banning of the internationally acclaimed play 'The Vagina Monologues', a letter to Thabo Mbeki, on the trafficking of girls and women to Germany, and on the abuse of women in the African blogosphere). [ASC Leiden abstract]