Persistence and Resistance of Harmful Traditional Practices (HTPs) Perpetuate…
Background: Harmful traditional practices (HTPs) are deeply entrenched behaviours or actions that violate the human rights of affected individuals. They have negative consequences on the physical a…
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The Epidemiology of Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria - A Twelve Year Review
Background: About 140 million women worldwide have suffered genital mutilation. The practice is common in several African countries including Nigeria. This paper reviews the prevalence, distributio…
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Rape and Women’s Sexual Health in Nigeria: The Stark Realities of Being Fem…
Historically, women have always been subjugated and oppressed by men in most cultures in Nigeria. This situation is due to the inequality in gender relations between men and women. Rape has alway…
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- 1024-0969
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Book Review: Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
The problematic dialectic of tradition and modernization has recently become a central topic in the study of African history, culture and contemporaneity. Historian Iris Berger adds to these discus…
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Gender-based Violence and Its Associated Effects on Female Students: The Case…
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most prevalent human rights violations without considering social, economic, age, ethnicity, religion and national boundaries, and which affects the heal…
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The Hidden Patients
The title “The Hidden Patients” was chosen for three reasons, the principal one being that female Muslim patients were somehow “hidden in plain sight” – present in the colonial institutio…
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Marxist Feminism Meets Postcolonial Feminism in Organizational Theorizing: Is…
In this paper I discuss the issues and implications of simultaneously drawing upon Marxist and Postcolonial feminist approaches to organizational theorizing in developing a theoretical/analytical…
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Socio-cultural factors that perpetuate the spread of HIV among women and girl…
The human immuno- deficiency virus (HIV) pandemic is still ravaging, after the first case was diagnosed more than twenty years ago. Women are disproportionally affected, in 2008/2009 HIV prevalenc…
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Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt
Female Genital Mutilation is widely practiced in Egypt as well as in big sections of the African continent. The tradition of mutilation of the female genital areas has been practiced over the cours…
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A Theoretical Perspective on Women and Poverty in Botswana
Botswana has made remarkable progress in terms of economic and social development. The position of the government is that policies and programmes should benefit all citizens equally. More specifi…
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