Barbara Callaway
Biographic Data
| ID | 299489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Callaway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Callaway |
| SIGNATURE | CALLAWAY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Political Science, California State College at Los Angeles. The data upon which this article is based were collected in Aba in 1966 and in Ho in 1969. I am indebted to the Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship Program for making this research possible. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
C. Sylvester WHITAKER, Jr
C. Sylvester Whitaker, Jr., passed away on November 29, 2008, in Waterville, Maine, after a long battle with cancer. He was 73 years old
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
The authors explore the impact of Islam on the lives of West African women, particularly (but not exclusively) in Nigeria and Senegal
Contrasting socialization of Igbo and Hausa women and political efficacy
The early childhood socialization of women in two very different Nigerian societies, the Igbo and the Hausa, is discussed to illustrate that first impressions may not always be accurate in seeking to understand the nature of women's subordination to men in nonwestern cultures, and consequently the nature of likely challenges to it. This discussion adds case material to the separate place/separate pwer hypothesis in suggesting that secluded Muslim…
Women and Political Participation in Kano City
The role and nature of the participation of in the politics of Kano during the First and Second Nigerian Republics is discussed here with relation to two interrelated concerns: the role and importance of Islam in Kano politics and the nature of women's participation in the two dominant political parties.1 The Islamic conception of equality for women, and therefore basic understandings about and their proper role and place in society, is set forth…
Ambiguous Consequences of the Socialisation and Seclusion of Hausa Women
This article discusses the situation of Hausa women in the predominantly Muslim City ofKano, Nigeria, and speculates upon the possibilities for changes in their status and life options grounded in the realities of their social environment.A strong trend in feminist scholarship focuses on the cultural aspects of the rôle of men and women, and relates their apparently universal asymmetries to the structural oppositions of 'private' and 'public' soc…
The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa
Organizing African Unity
Transitional Local Politics: Tradition in Local Government Elections in Aba, Nigeria; Keta, Ghana
The now nearly unanimous acceptance of the importance of the study of local politics in understanding the processes of political development, modernization, and change in Africa poses a challenge to contemporary Africanists which is at once both perplexing and stimulating. A central focus of this study is on the fusing of the old and new at the local level and the concomitant necessity of analyzing the nature and impact of the surviving residue f…
Biafra: The Making of a Nation
Local Politics in Ho and Aba
Barbara Callaway, Local Politics in Ho and Aba, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 4, No. 1, Special Issue: Local-Central Politics (Winter, 1970), pp. 121-144
Ambiguous Consequences of the Socialisation and Seclusion of Hausa Women
This article discusses the situation of Hausa women in the predominantly Muslim City ofKano, Nigeria, and speculates upon the possibilities for changes in their status and life options grounded in the realities of their social environment.A strong trend in feminist scholarship focuses on the cultural aspects of the rôle of men and women, and relates their apparently universal asymmetries to the structural oppositions of 'private' and 'public' soc…
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
Women and Political Participation in Kano City
The role and nature of the participation of in the politics of Kano during the First and Second Nigerian Republics is discussed here with relation to two interrelated concerns: the role and importance of Islam in Kano politics and the nature of women's participation in the two dominant political parties.1 The Islamic conception of equality for women, and therefore basic understandings about and their proper role and place in society, is set forth…
Transitional Local Politics: Tradition in Local Government Elections in Aba, Nigeria; Keta, Ghana
The now nearly unanimous acceptance of the importance of the study of local politics in understanding the processes of political development, modernization, and change in Africa poses a challenge to contemporary Africanists which is at once both perplexing and stimulating. A central focus of this study is on the fusing of the old and new at the local level and the concomitant necessity of analyzing the nature and impact of the surviving residue f…
Contrasting socialization of Igbo and Hausa women and political efficacy
The early childhood socialization of women in two very different Nigerian societies, the Igbo and the Hausa, is discussed to illustrate that first impressions may not always be accurate in seeking to understand the nature of women's subordination to men in nonwestern cultures, and consequently the nature of likely challenges to it. This discussion adds case material to the separate place/separate pwer hypothesis in suggesting that secluded Muslim…
Local Politics in Ho and Aba
Barbara Callaway, Local Politics in Ho and Aba, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 4, No. 1, Special Issue: Local-Central Politics (Winter, 1970), pp. 121-144
Biafra: The Making of a Nation
Organizing African Unity
Transitional Local Politics: Tradition in Local Government Elections in Aba, Nigeria; Keta, Ghana
The now nearly unanimous acceptance of the importance of the study of local politics in understanding the processes of political development, modernization, and change in Africa poses a challenge to contemporary Africanists which is at once both perplexing and stimulating. A central focus of this study is on the fusing of the old and new at the local level and the concomitant necessity of analyzing the nature and impact of the surviving residue f…
The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa
Ambiguous Consequences of the Socialisation and Seclusion of Hausa Women
This article discusses the situation of Hausa women in the predominantly Muslim City ofKano, Nigeria, and speculates upon the possibilities for changes in their status and life options grounded in the realities of their social environment.A strong trend in feminist scholarship focuses on the cultural aspects of the rôle of men and women, and relates their apparently universal asymmetries to the structural oppositions of 'private' and 'public' soc…
Women and Political Participation in Kano City
The role and nature of the participation of in the politics of Kano during the First and Second Nigerian Republics is discussed here with relation to two interrelated concerns: the role and importance of Islam in Kano politics and the nature of women's participation in the two dominant political parties.1 The Islamic conception of equality for women, and therefore basic understandings about and their proper role and place in society, is set forth…
Contrasting socialization of Igbo and Hausa women and political efficacy
The early childhood socialization of women in two very different Nigerian societies, the Igbo and the Hausa, is discussed to illustrate that first impressions may not always be accurate in seeking to understand the nature of women's subordination to men in nonwestern cultures, and consequently the nature of likely challenges to it. This discussion adds case material to the separate place/separate pwer hypothesis in suggesting that secluded Muslim…
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
The authors explore the impact of Islam on the lives of West African women, particularly (but not exclusively) in Nigeria and Senegal
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
C. Sylvester WHITAKER, Jr
C. Sylvester Whitaker, Jr., passed away on November 29, 2008, in Waterville, Maine, after a long battle with cancer. He was 73 years old
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