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Author Ammann, Carole, author.

Title Women, agency, and the state in Guinea : silent politics / Carole Ammann.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa
Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Women's political articulations in a Guinean city -- Gendered conceptions throughout Guinean history -- Contested presidential elections in 2010 -- Expectations of the new president -- The Guinean State doing gender -- Women's limited impacts on institutional politics -- Everyday politics -- Struggling for recognition : interactions with local authorities -- Conclusion : women's silent politics.
Summary "This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformations. Carole Ammann argues that women's political articulations in Muslim Guinea do not primarily take place within women's associations or institutional politics such as political parties; but instead women's silent forms of politics manifest in their daily agency, that is, when they make a living, study, marry, meet friends, raise their children, and do household chores. The book also analyses the relationship between the female population and the local authorities and discusses when and why women's claim making enjoys legitimacy in the eyes of other men and women, as well as representatives of 'traditional' authorities and the local government. Paying particular attention to intersectional perspectives, this book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, social anthropology, political anthropology, the anthropology of gender and urban anthropology, gender studies, and Islamic studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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Biography Carole Ammannis a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Subject Women -- Political activity -- Guinea.
Political participation -- Sex differences -- Guinea.
Women -- Guinea -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Urban women -- Guinea -- Kankan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women -- Government policy -- Guinea.
Urban anthropology -- Guinea -- Kankan.
Political participation -- Sex differences. (OCoLC)fst01069403
Urban anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01162365
Urban women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01162701
Women -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01176754
Women -- Political activity. (OCoLC)fst01734136
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
Guinea. (OCoLC)fst01206005
Guinea -- Kankan. (OCoLC)fst01231898
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Print version: Ammann, Carole. Women, agency, and the state in Guinea New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780367189594 (DLC) 2019049291
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