234 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction: Women’s Political Articulations in a Guinean City
1. Gendered Conceptions Throughout Guinean History
2. Contested Presidential Elections in 2010
3. Expectations of the New President?
4. The Guinean State Doing Gender
5. Women’s Limited Impacts on Institutional Politics
6. Everyday Politics 7. Struggling for Recognition: Interactions with Local Authorities
Conclusion: Women’s Silent Politics
Biography
Carole Ammann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
