Gender Violence in Africa: African Women's Responses

Penetrates the silence on a taboo topic, mustering an impressive array of sources to shed light on gender violence in Africa. Analyzes acts of gender violence as they occur in one region, sub-Saharan Africa, to uncover the dynamics that both perpetuate the abuses and enable women to survive them. Describes gender violence as a multilayered phenomenon operating within family, economic, and state contexts, and discusses ways in which African women use formal and informal power structures to resist gender violence at the individual, inter-group, national, and international levels. Green is associate professor of political science at Wright State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)