Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Fallon, Kathleen M.

Title Democracy and the rise of women's movements in Sub-Saharan Africa / Kathleen M. Fallon
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 168 pages) : map
Contents Reclaiming power -- Queenmothers, colonization, and the struggle for legitimacy -- Democracy in perspective -- The iron fist -- Capturing democracy -- Big men, small girls, and the politics of power -- Women on the move
Summary "Despite a late and fitful start, democracy in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe has recently shown promising growth. Kathleen Fallon discusses the role of women and women's advocacy groups in furthering the democratic transformation of formerly autocratic states."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Print version record
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Women and democracy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Women -- Political activity -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Politics and government
Women and democracy
Women -- Political activity
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001684
Subject Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801896743
0801896746
9780801895791
0801895790