Jane L Parpart
Biographic Data
| ID | 116158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane L Parpart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane L |
| FAMILY NAME | Parpart |
| SIGNATURE | PARPART J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4596-8862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 107 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 337 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 103 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between
Colonial Encounters
In 1888, Christian Lautherborn set out to establish a cotton plantation for the German East Africa Company in Pangani, Tanzania. Little did he know that he was heading out at a dramatic moment, and would soon (literally) be caught in the crossfire of a war between the coastal Africans, the Zanzibar government and German imperialist interventions. While in Tanzania, Lautherborn wrote a series of letters, some published in a local Danish newspaper …
Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka
Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the challenges resettled (formerly internally displaced) women faced when accessing health serv…
Rethinking silence, gender, and power in insecure sites
My current interest in silence, gender, and power owes much to discussions with Marysia Zalewski over the years. Much of my work has focused on masculinity, gender relations, and gender hierarchies with a focus on security and development in conflict zones. More recently, I have begun to explore silence not as a sign of disempowerment, but as a powerful force that can be used in many ways. This approach enables a more multi-levelled understanding…
Conclusion
Saddam Hussein is thumbing his nose at the United States, and according to the Economist, the United States is going through a period of feminization. An impressive array of feminist scholars in international relations (IR) and related fields have searched for ways to explain gender hierarchies and assumptions in the theory and practice of international relations. Liberal feminists, finding few women in the field of IR or the business of running …
The “Man” Question in International Relations
Patriarchy and Class
Women and the State in Africa
This chapter shows that assumption, asserting the particularity of the relationship of women to the state in Africa and consequently the need to study gender-state relations, and other social divisions, in order to understand both the nature of the state and the place of women in it. It is concerned with women's access to the apparatus of the state, the consequences of their underrepresentation in the state, and the mechanisms women have construc…
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt is an admirable introduction to social formation and class struggle in a historic phase of central African history and a history of labor on the Copperbelt. Beginning with their experiences in the Northern Rhodesian copper mines in the 1920s, black miners and their families gradually developed a sense of themselves as a class of workers. Their class consciousness led them to form associations and to str…
Gender and Peacebuilding
Gender and Peacebuilding by Claire Duncanson provides an excellent, critical analysis of debates about gender and peacebuilding. Aimed at scholars, feminist peace activists, and students, the book
Jeanne Marie Penvenne. Women, Migration, and the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique, 1945–1975
Jeanne Marie Penvenne’s Women, Migration and the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique, 1945–1975 builds on her research into the lives of urban workers in the port and railway sectors in the capital city of Lourenço Marques (renamed Maputo at independence in 1975). Penvenne’s initial research focused on male laborers. However, after a disturbing encounter with some angry Mozambique women questioning why their lives and experiences did not appear…
The Gender of Piety
"The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 51(1), pp. 167–168
Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa
When nurses are also patients
While violence against women is a recognised global health problem, women's agency in marginalised settings is poorly understood, particularly in relation to health systems. We explored agency as a practical and theoretical construct through qualitative research among 20 nurses with direct or indirect experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Johannesburg. Interviews conducted from August 2013 to March 2014 generated rich descriptions fro…
Militarized masculinities, heroes and gender inequality during and after the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe
The article focuses on the gendered character of the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe in the 1970s, and the establishment and role of the Zimbabwean state. I demonstrate that the much publicized gender equality promised during the struggle has produced little change. The article challenges a simple reading of patriarchal power, and demonstrates the utility of a more nuanced approach to understanding the role of post-conflict militarized masculini…
Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa
Gender, Violence and Human Security
Gender, Violence and Human Security, edited by Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, is a timely intervention into current debates over human security as an approach to (in)securit
Men, Masculinity, and Responsibility
Rethinking 'Brand Aid' in an Increasingly Unequal, Unstable, and Global World
Richey and Ponte (2011) explore the dark side of corporate social responsibility as practiced by the RED campaign. The campaign was launched in the 1990s to celebrate the possibility of doing good and helping impoverished, diseased Others in the South, while consuming products produced by its members including Starbucks, American Express, Emporio Armani, Converse, Gap, Apple, and Motorola. Buttressed by the power of celebrities such as Bono, Opra…
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Emily Burrill, Richard Roberts and Elizabeth Thornberry, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2010, viii +303 pp. Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa brings an important his
A Transformative Approach to Gender Mainstreaming
Mainstreaming: Changing the Deep Structure of Organizations. This article argues that gender mainstreaming will only be successful if a transformative agenda setting process is used through which the institutional cultures of organizations are changed. This implies an engagement with the deep structure of organizations. The deep structure of most organizations is the embedded masculinist values and norms that are normalized so that everyone accep…
Masculinity, gender and the new wars
African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya 1900-50, by Tabitha Kanogo
Tabitha Kanogo’s book demonstrates the centrality of debates over African womanhood for understanding the colonial period in Kenya during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on key socio-cultural institutions and practices around which women’s lives were organized, Kanogo explores the interactions of indigenous, mission, and colonial authorities as they sought to control and define Kenyan womanhood through legal and cultural practic…
Gender and Home-Based Care for HIV/Aids and TB Patients in Rural and Urban Zimbabwe
This article explores the gendered burden of care in TB and HIV/AIDS affected households in rural and urban Zimbabwe. Based on 2005-06 research conducted in Bulawayo and Tshelanyamba, we asked carers how caregiving has affected their lives, livelihoods and workloads. Most carers (all of whom are women) were worried about food security and the cost of health care, including transport. Livelihoods such as farming and informal trade were interrupted…
Gender, HIV/Aids, and Human Security in Africa
Using theoretical analysis and empirical findings from case studies in several African countries, the authors of this special issue adopt a feminist analysis of gender relations, HIV/AIDS, and human security in order to expand upon and deepen our understanding of health, development, and security, and how they affect individuals and society. HIV/AIDS can have a destabilizing effect on countries and communities, with consequences for levels of sex…
The “Man” Question in International Relations
Women and the State in Africa
This chapter shows that assumption, asserting the particularity of the relationship of women to the state in Africa and consequently the need to study gender-state relations, and other social divisions, in order to understand both the nature of the state and the place of women in it. It is concerned with women's access to the apparatus of the state, the consequences of their underrepresentation in the state, and the mechanisms women have construc…
Law, Custom, and Social Order
Who is the 'Other
In the last decade poststructural and postmodern critiques have increasingly dominated the world of scholarship. The grand theories of the past have been called into question; universals have been overtaken by particularities and difference. Feminist scholars have reacted to postmodernism in a number of ways. Some reject it outright, while others call for a synthesis of feminist and postmodern approaches. Many scholars and activists concerned wit…
Trouble Showed the Way
Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. This book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and non-fiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focus…
Where Is Your Mother
Jane L. Parpart, "Where Is Your Mother?": Gender, Urban Marriage, and Colonial Discourse on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1924-1945, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (1994), pp. 241-271
Botswana
The household and the mine shaft
(1986). The household and the mine shaft: gender and class struggles on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1926–64. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 36-56
Militarized masculinities, heroes and gender inequality during and after the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe
The article focuses on the gendered character of the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe in the 1970s, and the establishment and role of the Zimbabwean state. I demonstrate that the much publicized gender equality promised during the struggle has produced little change. The article challenges a simple reading of patriarchal power, and demonstrates the utility of a more nuanced approach to understanding the role of post-conflict militarized masculini…
Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development
Collaboration has become a watchword for development practitioners and theorists. Yet collaboration or partnerships between academics and community-based researchers and activists have often proved difficult. This is particularly true for partnerships with smaller, grassroots community researchers, who are generally less resourced than their academic partners. This paper focuses on such partnerships in gender research, with the aim of reflecting …
Rethinking silence, gender, and power in insecure sites
My current interest in silence, gender, and power owes much to discussions with Marysia Zalewski over the years. Much of my work has focused on masculinity, gender relations, and gender hierarchies with a focus on security and development in conflict zones. More recently, I have begun to explore silence not as a sign of disempowerment, but as a powerful force that can be used in many ways. This approach enables a more multi-levelled understanding…
Restructured Worlds / Restructured Debates
Addressing the issues of gender and development in the 1990s seems to us to require a return to major debates about the nature of political and economic power, the role of gender and the character of development. These debates have seen significant advances in the last ten years. A thorough grounding in this new (and old) thinking is needed before new syntheses can be constructed. To that end this paper explores the implications of new thinking i…
Gender and Peacebuilding
Gender and Peacebuilding by Claire Duncanson provides an excellent, critical analysis of debates about gender and peacebuilding. Aimed at scholars, feminist peace activists, and students, the book
The Settler Economies
The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana, 1870-1900
Gender, Violence and Human Security
Gender, Violence and Human Security, edited by Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, is a timely intervention into current debates over human security as an approach to (in)securit
The "Labor Aristocracy" Debate in Africa
Scholars of the working class in both developed and less developed countries have long recognized that certain members of the working class sometimes behave in ways that subvert the best interests of the class as a whole. In order to explain this behavior, scholars have turned to the concept of a labor aristocracy. First developed by Marx and Engels to explain English labor's lack of revolutionary zeal in the mid-nineteenth century, this concept …
Class Consciousness Among the Zambian Copper Miners, 1950-1968
RésuméLa conscience de classes et le potentiel politique des travailleurs africains sont depuis longtemps l'objet de discussions. Ceci est tout particulièrement le cas des mineurs zambiens, que l'on considère comme une aristocratie du travail apolitique gâtée. Cet article lance un défi à cette prise de position, déclarant que les mineurs zambiens ont développé et maintenu une conscience de classes et une conscience des conflits tout à fait claire…
Sharing the Same Bowl
Africanizing Anthropology
African Women South of the Sahara
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt is an admirable introduction to social formation and class struggle in a historic phase of central African history and a history of labor on the Copperbelt. Beginning with their experiences in the Northern Rhodesian copper mines in the 1920s, black miners and their families gradually developed a sense of themselves as a class of workers. Their class consciousness led them to form associations and to str…
Men, Masculinity, and Responsibility
A Transformative Approach to Gender Mainstreaming
Mainstreaming: Changing the Deep Structure of Organizations. This article argues that gender mainstreaming will only be successful if a transformative agenda setting process is used through which the institutional cultures of organizations are changed. This implies an engagement with the deep structure of organizations. The deep structure of most organizations is the embedded masculinist values and norms that are normalized so that everyone accep…
Masculinity, gender and the new wars
Mines, Masters, and Migrants
Labor Strategies in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mines, 1926-1936
The Labor Process and Modes of Production in Africa
Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice. The Case of South African Gold Mining Finance, 1886-1914
Anatomy of a Conquest
Books/Livres
The "Labor Aristocracy" Debate in Africa
Scholars of the working class in both developed and less developed countries have long recognized that certain members of the working class sometimes behave in ways that subvert the best interests of the class as a whole. In order to explain this behavior, scholars have turned to the concept of a labor aristocracy. First developed by Marx and Engels to explain English labor's lack of revolutionary zeal in the mid-nineteenth century, this concept …
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
The Settler Economies
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt is an admirable introduction to social formation and class struggle in a historic phase of central African history and a history of labor on the Copperbelt. Beginning with their experiences in the Northern Rhodesian copper mines in the 1920s, black miners and their families gradually developed a sense of themselves as a class of workers. Their class consciousness led them to form associations and to str…
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Studies, UNIP headquarters, and the Zambian Mineworkers' Union headquarters in Kitwe, produced various pieces of useful data.A. L. Epstein and J. Clyde Mitchell's data from 1950s Copperbelt surveys were particularly helpful.Both scholars graciously permitted me to examine these records during a recent visit to England.Numerous informants in England, Zambia, South Africa, and America gave generously of their time and memories, and this study could…
Recent Working Papers of the African Studies Center
The Evolving Structure of Zambian Society
The Political Economy of a Dual Labor Market in Africa
Development in Zambia
Colonial Rule and Regional Imbalance in Central Africa
The Dynamics of the One-Party State in Zambia
The White Tribe of Africa
Botswana
Independent Zambia
Women's Rights and the Lagos Plan of Action
The Lagos Plan of Action is a development plan drawn up and signed by the leaders of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.). Responding to the current economic crisis in Africa, the Plan calls for urgent action to achieve the goals of self-reliance, self-sustaining development, and economic growth. It includes strong support for the full utilization of human resources, both male and female. Unlike most development plans, the Plan devotes an e…
Struggle for the City
The household and the mine shaft
(1986). The household and the mine shaft: gender and class struggles on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1926–64. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 36-56
Sharing the Same Bowl
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Studies, UNIP headquarters, and the Zambian Mineworkers' Union headquarters in Kitwe, produced various pieces of useful data.A. L. Epstein and J. Clyde Mitchell's data from 1950s Copperbelt surveys were particularly helpful.Both scholars graciously permitted me to examine these records during a recent visit to England.Numerous informants in England, Zambia, South Africa, and America gave generously of their time and memories, and this study could…
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