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- Description:
- Review of: Barbara Diane Miller (ed). Sex and gender hierarchies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: John Markakis. National and class conflict in the Horn of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the Journal of social development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for Hans Zell Publishers
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Work is an essential part of human life which determines one's status in society. It is usually gender-determined, especially in rural communities where men and women have separate distinct roles which they have to perform. This paper is based on a small-scale study of Mozambican refugee women conducted at Mazowe River Bridge camp (Zimbabwe). In the research, the roles and status of women prior to displacement and currently (in the camp) were examined. An effort was also made to project the roles and status of women in future Mozambique after repatriation. Some of the findings support Makanya's (1990) findings in her case-study on issues of assistance to Mozambican refugee women at Tongogara camp. This study indicated that Mozambican women take the major burden of responsibility for domestic and other chores in the camps, as they used to in Mozambique. An inequitable division of labour between men and women persists. Currently a number or men are also leaving the camp to look for employment, but due to high and rising unemployment in Zimbabwe and police round-ups of Mozambican refugees who leave the camps, the majority find themselves back in the camps again. Their role as family providers is greatly reduced. However men have been and are still being regarded as decision-makers, which leaves women in a very vulnerable, dependent position. The future of the Mozambican women is likely to change due to the skills currently being imparted to them in the camps. The women are likely to emerge and be recognised as people who can work outside the home. However, this would become more possible if women are supported not only with material and financial resources, but also with opportunities and positive attitudes towards them.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: Katie Curtin. Women in China. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the University of Zimbabwe Publications Office
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This paper offers a criticism of modernisation and dependency schools of thought which have retarded the ability of social work to contribute in a meaningful way to the solution of Africa's many problems. A move from a residual to a radical paradigm is urged, reflecting five key dimensions which together offer a blueprint for a way forward. Radical developmental social work of an interdisciplinary nature, guided by informed, forward-thinking profesionals and grounded in African realities may be the only answer if the profession is to survive into the next century. Perhaps only then will the social workers be able to produce a practice that meets Africa's requirements and one that deals effectively with the major concerns faced by the African peoples.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa