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Presenting a framework that considers the ways that neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children, authors explore the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
List of contents
Introduction: Assata Zerai and Brenda N. Sanya
Chapter 1: The Lives of Women and Children in East Africa
Assata Zerai
Chapter 2: Structural and Economic Analysis of Declines in Water and Sanitation in East Africa
Shorma Bianca Bailey and Assata Zerai
Chapter 3. Public Goods, Citizenship Rights: How Lingering Structural Inequalities Define Social Services and Government Policies
Brenda N. Sanya
Chapter 4: Access to Safe Water, Women's Empowerment, and Decentralization Systems in Tanzania
Teresia R. Olemako
Chapter 5: Gender as Social Structure and its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An African Feminist Analysis
Assata Zerai and Rebecca Morrow
Chapter 6: Environmental Contamination and Early Childhood Morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
Assata Zerai, Rebecca Morrow, and Courtney Cuthbertson
Conclusion: Paying Serious Attention to Women's Scholarship to Influence Policy in East Africa
Assata Zerai and Joanna Perez
Appendix 1: River Basin Model and Decentralization System
Appendix 2: Population in the Area under Study in Tanzania's Pangani River Basin
Appendix 3: Safe Global Water and Sanitation Institute Summit Program
About the author
Assata Zerai is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Brenda N. Sanya is A. Lindsay O'Connor visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Colgate University.
Summary
Presenting a framework that considers the ways that neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children, authors explore the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
