Body politics and women citizens :  African experiences / 
Ann Schlyter, editor ; Lucy Kondwani Chipeta ... [et al.] 
 - Stockholm :  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency,  2009. 
 - 151 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Sida studies ;  no. 24 .
 - Sida studies ;  no. 24. .
<br/><br/> "This volume is based on papers originally presented at the research conference "Body Politics and Gender Justice", held in Cape Town in February 2009." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Ann Schlyter --Contesting illegality: women in the informal copper business on the Zambian copperbelt / Patience Mususa -- Women coping with change: urban poverty and everyday politics in northern Mozambique / Margareta Espling -- Bodies at work in Volvo plants in Sweden and South Africa / Paula Mählck -- Polygamous families in urban Malawi: sharing housing and resources / Lucy Kondwani Chipeta -- Essential motherhood: implications for law and population policy / Mulela Margaret Munalula -- Teenage pregnancy and HIV in South Africa / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi -- From pain to virtue: clitoridectomy and other ordeals in the creation of a female person / Lisen Dellenborg -- Bearing the pain: changing views of the meaning and morality of suffering / Maria Malmström -- Women in the back seat in Malian citizenship / Assitan Diallo -- Gendered spectacle: new terrains of struggle in South Africa / Desiree Lewis -- Postscript: challenges to rights-based approaches in support of women citizens / Ann Schlyter. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789158641006 (pbk.) 9158641009 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011464766 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015709358  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women's rights--Africa.<br/>Women--Social conditions.--Africa<br/>Women--Employment--Africa.<br/>Sex role--Political aspects--Africa.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ 1236.5  / .A35 B6 2009