Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION  Introduction  1: Contemporary African Women: An Appreciation  SECTION 2: EMPOWERING IMAGES OF AFRICAN WOMEN IN LITERARY WORKS  2: ?Like flowers blooming from an ice bucket?: Contemporary Anglophone Cameroonian Women Writers  3: Sex, Resistance and Agency: (Queer) Young Women in Selected North African Novels and Films  4: African Women?s Autonomy as Represented in Selected African Literature  5: Interrogating the Contradictory Portrayal of Women in African Drama Using Uche Nwaozuzu?s Ajari and Ebibi  SECTION 3: AFRICAN WOMEN NAVIGATING MULTIPLE PANDEMICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE  6: Women, Spirituality/Religion, and Pandemics in Africa  7: Feminine Wisdom as a Resource for Facing Pandemics in Africa  8: Catholic Religious Women and COVID-19: Tracing the Role of Sr Astridah Banda -A Dominican Religious Sister - in Curbing the Pandemic in Zambia  9: Christian Women and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria  10: Women?s Leadership in the Face of COVID-19: The Case of Agnes Mahomva in Zimbabwe  11: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf?s Rhetorical Leadership: The Fight to Rebuild Liberia, Empower Women and Conquer Ebola   12: Young African Women?s Responses to the Impact of Climate Change  13: Catholic Women Navigating the Challenges of Climate Change in Rural Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach  SECTION 4: DEFYING THE ODDS: AFRICAN WOMEN IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS  14: Overcoming Difficulties as a Woman Scientist in Africa  15: The Trajectory of Rwandan Women in Science and Technology: From the Colonial Period to the Digital Era (1894 ? 2023)  16: DePatriarchalizing the Media Coverage of Science in Uganda: Recovering Women?s Voices 17: African Women and Leadership in Science Academies  18: Eastern Market Women Activism in Colonial Nigeria: A Historical Perspective  19: Globalization and African Women: Challenges and Opportunities  20: Pathways to Power: Religiosity, Economic Opportunities, and IlParakuyo Maasai Women  SECTION 5: AFRICAN WOMEN IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ACADEMIA AND POLITICS  21: Thriving in New Lands: Migrant Women Doing Business in South Africa  22: Church Women and Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, Western Diocese  23: The Role of Young Women in Promoting Economic Development in Africa  24: Women in Higher Education Management in Africa: Trends, Policies and Practices  25: An Unbalanced Equation: Exploring Gender Disparity among Academics in Southeast Universities, Nigeria  26: Women?s Political Participation and the Place of Patriarchy in Political Institutions in Osun State, Nigeria  27: Young Professional Women?s Performative Agency in Challenging Media (Mis) Representations of Women in Politics: The Case of Zimbabwe  SECTION 6: AFRICAN WOMEN THRIVING IN HISTORICAL TIMES, OLDER AGE, DIPLOMACY AND RELIGION  28: Empowering Images of Older Women in African Literature  29: Women?s Experiences of Growing Older in a Rural Economy in Ghana  30: The Role of Elderly Women in Botswana: A Perspective from African Theological Feminist Gerontolgy  31: Young African Women?s leadership in Religious Studies and Theology: A Review with Special Reference to the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal  32: Aluta Continua! African Women Theologians? Contributions to Inclusive Theological Education: Towards the African Union?s Agenda 2063  33: Calling the Church to Account:  A Theological Response to the Silent Pandemic of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Women in Nigeria?s Mainline Evangelical Churches  34: African Women in Diplomacy and the Quest for Gender Justice