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Safe Water, Sanitation, and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Afric - An African Feminist Analysis of the Lives of Women in Kenya,

English · Hardback

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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.

Product details

Authors Assata Sanya Zerai
Assisted by Brenda N Sanya (Editor), Brenda N. Sanya (Editor), Assata Zerai (Editor)
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.01.2018
 
EAN 9781498520836
ISBN 978-1-4985-2083-6
No. of pages 188
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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