Stephanie Urdang
Biographic Data
| ID | 186520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Urdang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Urdang |
| SIGNATURE | URDANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | AIDS United |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Care Economy
This article considers the impact of AIDS on women's roles and responsibilities within the household ‘care economy’. In particular, it emphasizes that all interventions aimed at reversing the AIDS epidemic need to take into account the excessive work-load that members of the household, usually women, shoulder in responding to the needs of sick family members. Most notably, gender equality and care economy issues need to be identified by developme…
Interpreting Women's Lives
And Still They Dance
And Still They Dance
And Still They Dance
"Namibia, or "Any Time Now
The last transition? Women and development in Mozambique
There is still much difficult terrain to traverse before women in Mozambique achieve full liberation. But the process has been set in motion, supported by FRELIMO and the Government who have acknowledged the struggle of women to be integral to the total revolutionary process which the country must follow. Urdang's concern is to gauge how far the official concern is manifested in practice, how far FRELIMO's underwriting of the need for women to ac…
Oppression and Resistance
Wives for Cattle
Concerning Women in Mozambique
No abstract
Oppression and Resistance
are very far-too far-in the future. The principal issue is still, simply, survival. In an afterword, Huston summarizes the information provided her by both grassroots women and those in leadership positions. Short-term needs include personal self-confidence and an understanding of women's importance in community and national life. Allied to these are practical instruction in health, nutrition, family planning, and earning skills. Leadership train…
Societal Structures, Women's Roles, and Women's Consciousness
Fighting Two Colonialisms
"Guinea-Bissau, a small country on the West Coast of Africa, had been a colony of Portugal for 500 years, and with the 1926 rise of a Portuguese fascist dictatorship, colonization of the country became both brutal and complete. In 1956 the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was founded by Amilcar Cabral and a few country people. At first PAIGC's goal was to organize workers in the towns, hoping that through demons…
Fighting Two Colonialisms
The sixties will be remembered as the decade of independence for most of Africa, independence won for the most part at the negotiating table. All too frequently the parties negotiating on behalf of African countries were a carefully cultivated elite who simply replaced the colonial administrators and set the stage for the growth of neocolonialism, coups, and counter coups. Unlike Britain and France, Portugal, until its 1974 revolution, refused to…
And Still They Dance
And Still They Dance
Fighting Two Colonialisms
The sixties will be remembered as the decade of independence for most of Africa, independence won for the most part at the negotiating table. All too frequently the parties negotiating on behalf of African countries were a carefully cultivated elite who simply replaced the colonial administrators and set the stage for the growth of neocolonialism, coups, and counter coups. Unlike Britain and France, Portugal, until its 1974 revolution, refused to…
Oppression and Resistance
are very far-too far-in the future. The principal issue is still, simply, survival. In an afterword, Huston summarizes the information provided her by both grassroots women and those in leadership positions. Short-term needs include personal self-confidence and an understanding of women's importance in community and national life. Allied to these are practical instruction in health, nutrition, family planning, and earning skills. Leadership train…
The Care Economy
This article considers the impact of AIDS on women's roles and responsibilities within the household ‘care economy’. In particular, it emphasizes that all interventions aimed at reversing the AIDS epidemic need to take into account the excessive work-load that members of the household, usually women, shoulder in responding to the needs of sick family members. Most notably, gender equality and care economy issues need to be identified by developme…
Fighting Two Colonialisms
The sixties will be remembered as the decade of independence for most of Africa, independence won for the most part at the negotiating table. All too frequently the parties negotiating on behalf of African countries were a carefully cultivated elite who simply replaced the colonial administrators and set the stage for the growth of neocolonialism, coups, and counter coups. Unlike Britain and France, Portugal, until its 1974 revolution, refused to…
Fighting Two Colonialisms
"Guinea-Bissau, a small country on the West Coast of Africa, had been a colony of Portugal for 500 years, and with the 1926 rise of a Portuguese fascist dictatorship, colonization of the country became both brutal and complete. In 1956 the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was founded by Amilcar Cabral and a few country people. At first PAIGC's goal was to organize workers in the towns, hoping that through demons…
Societal Structures, Women's Roles, and Women's Consciousness
Concerning Women in Mozambique
No abstract
Oppression and Resistance
are very far-too far-in the future. The principal issue is still, simply, survival. In an afterword, Huston summarizes the information provided her by both grassroots women and those in leadership positions. Short-term needs include personal self-confidence and an understanding of women's importance in community and national life. Allied to these are practical instruction in health, nutrition, family planning, and earning skills. Leadership train…
The last transition? Women and development in Mozambique
There is still much difficult terrain to traverse before women in Mozambique achieve full liberation. But the process has been set in motion, supported by FRELIMO and the Government who have acknowledged the struggle of women to be integral to the total revolutionary process which the country must follow. Urdang's concern is to gauge how far the official concern is manifested in practice, how far FRELIMO's underwriting of the need for women to ac…
Oppression and Resistance
Wives for Cattle
"Namibia, or "Any Time Now
And Still They Dance
And Still They Dance
And Still They Dance
Interpreting Women's Lives
The Care Economy
This article considers the impact of AIDS on women's roles and responsibilities within the household ‘care economy’. In particular, it emphasizes that all interventions aimed at reversing the AIDS epidemic need to take into account the excessive work-load that members of the household, usually women, shoulder in responding to the needs of sick family members. Most notably, gender equality and care economy issues need to be identified by developme…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Dance (3 works) · Development economics (3 works)