Markets in Lagos, as in other parts of Yorubaland, are discursively constructed as spaces where women are in charge, perhaps based on their numbers. However, this article on the spatial relationships between women traders, the state and market institutions at Oke Arin in Lagos points to women's subordination and reflects Doreen Massey's concept of gendered spaces. Massey explains that spaces are in themselves gendered and that they also reflect and affect how gender is constructed and enforced in a specific context. The study is based on a sample of eighty Lagos (Yoruba) women traders and uses a combination of surveys, in-depth interviews, observation and secondary data to examine gendered strategies for survival and accumulation. I argue t...
Shea butter production in West Africa has been dominated by women and Northern Ghana specifically is...
The last decade has witnessed the rise of a great number of transnational social movements and activ...
In this paper we argue that entrepreneurship is a socio-spatial embedded activity and that the socia...
In Windhoek and other South African cities six of eight traders are women. As noted by Huda Tayob, s...
Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.Poverty and unemployment are critical challe...
Powerlessness of women, gender inequality and discrimination against women are concepts that often d...
Women's economic empowerment has come to play an increasingly prominent role in the policies of main...
Reducing gender inequalities by enabling women's empowerment is a major focus of the literature and ...
Gender is a highly context-specific social construct. It explores the social relationships between m...
Abstract. Analyses of gender and space have been brought short by our awareness of the sterility of ...
In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from ...
This thesis is based on an eight month period of fieldwork in Abuja, the new capital of Nigeria. I h...
International audienceTaking as case study the city of Ibadan, in south-west Nigeria, at the end of ...
The following paper seeks to address the complex structures that women have created to facilitate th...
Since the 1990s, a number of socio-cultural agencies have played a significant role in the rise of Y...
Shea butter production in West Africa has been dominated by women and Northern Ghana specifically is...
The last decade has witnessed the rise of a great number of transnational social movements and activ...
In this paper we argue that entrepreneurship is a socio-spatial embedded activity and that the socia...
In Windhoek and other South African cities six of eight traders are women. As noted by Huda Tayob, s...
Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.Poverty and unemployment are critical challe...
Powerlessness of women, gender inequality and discrimination against women are concepts that often d...
Women's economic empowerment has come to play an increasingly prominent role in the policies of main...
Reducing gender inequalities by enabling women's empowerment is a major focus of the literature and ...
Gender is a highly context-specific social construct. It explores the social relationships between m...
Abstract. Analyses of gender and space have been brought short by our awareness of the sterility of ...
In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from ...
This thesis is based on an eight month period of fieldwork in Abuja, the new capital of Nigeria. I h...
International audienceTaking as case study the city of Ibadan, in south-west Nigeria, at the end of ...
The following paper seeks to address the complex structures that women have created to facilitate th...
Since the 1990s, a number of socio-cultural agencies have played a significant role in the rise of Y...
Shea butter production in West Africa has been dominated by women and Northern Ghana specifically is...
The last decade has witnessed the rise of a great number of transnational social movements and activ...
In this paper we argue that entrepreneurship is a socio-spatial embedded activity and that the socia...