Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 203 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
CODESRIA book series
|
|
Codesria book series.
|
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194). |
Summary |
Education is an important tool for the development of human potential. Organizations and individuals interested in development consider knowledge, skills and attitudes, obtained through formal, non-formal and incidental learning, as invaluable assets. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect on fundamental elements that shape the process through which education is attained: How do people learn, and what are the conditions that facilitate effective learning? Answers to these questions demonstrate that no education can be politically neutral, because there is no value-free education. The traditiona. |
Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Methodology; Theoretical Framework; Research Method; The Respondents; Identification of Participants in the Research and Analyses of Data; Note; 2. Women's Civic-Political Participation Towards an Equitable and Humane Democratic Order; Participation as Voters; Active Support for Female Candidates in Elections; Women as Candidates in Elections and Appointed Leaders. |
|
Would Women Vote for a Woman who is Contesting for Governorship/ Presidency or Head of a Group with Female and Male Members?Literate Men and Women's Participation in Politics; Discussions; Religious Leaders on Women's Civic-Political Leadership; Notes; 3. The Subordinate Role of Women in the Private and Public Spheres; The Roles of Women in the Private Sphere; Summary and Discussions; The Roles of Women in the Public Sphere; Summary and Discussions; Factors that Influence Women and Men's Views of the Roles of Women in the Private and Public Spheres of Life. |
|
Religious Leaders on Roles of Women in the Private and Public Spheres of Life4. Who am I? Prescribing Women's Identities; Self-Definition; Women are Similar to Men; Women are Different from Men; How Men See Women; Women and Feelings of Inferiority; 5. The Violence of Power: Power Relations and Women's Experience of Violence; Women's Personal Experience of Violence, and or Knowledge of Others' Experience of Violence; The Reaction of Victims of Violence to their Experience; Reactions of Others to Victims' Experience; Advice on Violence. |
|
What Possibilities/Potentials Does this Advice Have for Improving Women's Social Status?Literate Men's Capacity to Exhibit Violence; Religious Leaders on Violence against Women; Notes; 6. Women's Identities and Power; Power; Women's Identities and Women's Abilities to Attain Political Power; The Greed/Lust for Power and the Preservative Nature of Power; The Character of Women; The Identities of Women (the Character of Women), Women's Experience of Violence and Ability to Resist Violence; 7. Is Formal Education Empowering?; Religious Leaders on Women's Education. |
|
Learning and Not-learning (Resisting and Rejecting) Empowering and Disempowering Lessons in Formal EducationThe Challenges of Religion; Hopes and Possibilities; Notes; Conclusion and Recommendations; References; Appendices; Back cover. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- Nigeria -- Social conditions.
|
|
Women. |
|
Nigeria. |
|
Social conditions. |
|
Feminism and education -- Nigeria.
|
|
Feminism and education. |
|
Education -- Political aspects -- Nigeria.
|
|
Education -- Political aspects. |
|
Women and religion -- Nigeria.
|
|
Women and religion. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
Subject |
Women. |
|
Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Mejiuni, Olutoyin. Women and Power. Oxford : CODESRIA, 2013 9782869784932 |
ISBN |
9782869785748 (electronic book) |
|
2869785747 (electronic book) |
|