Women, work and ideology in Nigeria

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11904467
AutoresRenee Pittin, Renée Ilene Pittin (Netherlands Institute for Social Research, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen18
Número52
Fecha de publicación1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReview of African Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03056249108703920
OpenAlexW2040998854
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas6

Struggles to control Nigeria's dwindling resources, and to gain or maintain power within the context of economic crisis, are taking place at local, state, regional and federal levels, within and outside formal political structures. The ideologies with which these struggles have been associated, and the struggles themselves, have particular implications for the effects upon women, mediated and mitigated, however, by class differences. This article describes the significance of women's economic activities in Katsina and, taking the example of the persecution of ‘independent women’, explores the conflicting ideologies which circumscribe women

Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Ideology · Persecution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law