Shaping our struggles : Nigerian women in history, culture and social change
This publication provides a critical reconsideration of women in Nigerian society by exploring their historical, developmental, and socio-cultural experiences across Nigeria's cultures. While focusing on still neglected aspects of women's experiences, a reappraisal of women's roles as historical actors facilitates a fuller understanding of their place in society and their contribution to societal development. Their changing roles, their marginalization at different historical times, and most importantly, their resilience and resistance to the classification of women as the lower class in society is reflected in the diverse and reflective essays presented in this volume. In analyzing a range of material that testifies to the wide spectrum of women's experiences in Nigeria, the essays in this collection consider women as a distinct category in society and reflect on ays women have navigated through the obstacles which have confronted them historically and their extraordinary abilities to assert their autonomy as individuals and as groups
Print Book, English, ©2010
Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J., ©2010